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A few audio snafus this week, but we decided to leave them in for the “real experience”. We’ll get it eventually.
- Chris and Jeri are broadcasting a live video show to announce the 555 contest winners.
- Dave is stressing about the Tektronix contest. He’s trailing in votes!
- Jeremy Blum was featured on The Discovery Channel! Awesome!
- Dave hates standby power consumption. The Agilent 3000 series scope has 6.5W standby power!
- Chris missed out on the trend of NerdCore Rap!
- Chris found out about Dual Core from the recent tweets about Notacon in Cleveland.
- Dave enjoys the movie, Nerdcore Rising about MC Frontalot.
- MC Frontalot’s most recent video.
- Chris has been reading Dan Pink books lately, because of the video below.
- Dave enjoys the TI TXB0104 voltage level translator and had a fun time trying to troubleshoot the circuit.
- The MathWorks has released a C compiler for MATLAB code for translating designs. Won’t this hurt young engineers?
- China starts to feel some outsourcing pain as Foxconn looks to move some manufacturing over to Brazil. (the mistakenly posted UMC story is here)
And the Article explaining some of the mysteries

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