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Published Saturday, December 31, 2005 by Len. 
What a long strange trip it has been. We would like to take this opportunity to say Happy New Year to all our blog readers and listeners. Here's to another great year of Jawbone!
We'll be back with more shows later this week. Take care until then.
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Published Thursday, December 29, 2005 by Len. 
As the year ends and we fast approach our 100th show, we thought we'd share this song with all of you. It's our theme song by D. Verada. He wrote it for Nora's bday, but it fast became our unofficial theme song. For all you who have heard this song before, enjoy it again. And for those who have heard it at the end of our show and wondered what it was...here it is!
Join us on our road to 100!
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The Little Rascals
Originally uploaded by jawboneradio.I'm on a Lena Horne kick. The other night, a group of us were playing the board game Wise or Otherwise, where you complete ancient sayings and I used Lena Horne in my answer.
BTW, I struggled over what celebrity to use for this one. I settled on Lena only because I couldn't come up with anyone better.
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Published Wednesday, December 28, 2005 by Len. 
Well, according to the experts, nothing:
Anyone know why I can't get this to work?
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Published Monday, December 26, 2005 by Len. 

Here's some fun news: Podcast Pickle recently had a fun little non-scientific game called
Podcast Wars. Podcasts were pitted against one another in an gravel pit in unnatural battle to the death for blood and money.
Well, actually, users could click to vote for their favorite podcast over the course of seven weeks. And lo and behold -- Jawbone Radio came in third place behind the
Podcast Pickle Show and
The Big Show! We're honored to be on the short list of favorite podcasts and we promise not to let you down in the future.
Thanks for all the votes. It energizes us for the new year. See the whole winning list
here.
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Researchers couldn't figure out why shark carcasses were floating at the bottom of their aquarium every morning. So they set up a hidden camera and captured this incredible video.
Check it out.
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Published Saturday, December 24, 2005 by Len. 
Adam Curry. Leo Laporte. Len and Nora. What do they all have in common? They all appeared in the holiday production of
A Podcast Christmas Carol. The hour long "podplay" was produced, written and edited by a group of podcasters and it really is amazing to hear.
Here's another little treat: The podcast will be played on both
XM and
Sirius Satellite Radio on Christmas Day. What a wonderful way to celebrate the holiday. Go give it a
listen now.
And while we're at it, we'd like to wish all our listeners a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. Just nine more shows to 100!
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Published Friday, December 23, 2005 by Len. 

The latest Bigfoot footage is in and I have to tell you, I don't know why
these clips are so goddamn short! Come on! At least let the video go until the creature goes out of view.
Anyhow, check out the video
here. Compelling footage to say the least. But we'll let you decide on your own.
Via
BB.
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It has been a year of ups and downs with our
favorite photo sharing community,, what with
that NIPSA debacle and the
controversy surrounding the 700 Hoboes project. But all in all one has to admit, it's a pretty awesome resource.
Our friend
Jonathan Coulton understands this and the magic of
Creative Commons. He penned a wonderful song (with video) for his
"Thing-A-Week" project that pays homage to Creative Commons and Flickr. With this little ditty, Mr. Coulton is fast becoming one of my absolute favorite artists on the net.
Not surprisingly, the song is called
FlickrThanks to
JH for the link!
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Published Wednesday, December 21, 2005 by Len. 

Tonight we talk to our friend, fellow 88-89'er and sometimes producer,
DJ Hojo.RUNNING TIME: 58:34
SHOW NOTES:
Links:
DJ Hojo's claim to fame, his appearance on
Daily Source Code.Negativeland Webcast: Over the EdgeMusic:
DJ Hojo | Apollo
DJ Hojo And Scott Step | Something About the Night (DJ Hojo Remix)
Don't forget to order your own
2006 Podcast Art Calendar!RSS feed.
Download now.
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It's a few days before Christmas and Nora and I sit down and discuss the upcoming holiday, health problems, illustrated children diseases and not being able to drink a barium milkshake. Join us for this wild, odd and strange podcast.
BTW, we are aware we have skipped show 89. Show 89 is coming tomorrow.
RUNNING TIME: 49:51
SHOW NOTES:
Links:
A Podcast Christmas CarolMega ZookaComics Symposium
Music:
Eddie Spaghetti | Without Love
(Thanks to Brian from Coverville for the CD!)Don't forget to order your own
2006 Podcast Art Calendar!RSS feed.
Download now.
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Published Saturday, December 17, 2005 by Len. 
Wim Wenders
Originally uploaded by jawboneradio.Yet another Flickr group I am a part of. Search for it and join. It'll be fun.
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I heard about this on the
Ricky Gervais Show, but I had to find it for myself. This is from
BBC World News. It's not funny, but when you hear
Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant talk about it, it kind of is.
UPDATE: Aw, man. Seems that the story is
fake. I knew it was too good to be true. The page does have a good discussion about who would actually win in this match, midgets or lions. I put my money on the lions everytime.
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Published Friday, December 16, 2005 by Len. 
From the "Community Coming Together for Christmas" Dept: A group of podcasters have taken on a pretty enormous project -- a podcasting adaption of
Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol." Produced and written by a very talented group of podcasters from
a simple thread at Podcast Pickle, this version involves Scrooge being visited by the Ghosts of Radio Past. Very Clever.
Apparently, they got some pretty big names in podcasting to make some cameo appearances, including us. :) We can't wait to hear what this sounds like when it comes out next week, just in time for the holidays.
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For all you fellow Mac users, here's a
song just for you.Sure it's goofy. But no one's writing songs about WIndows XP, I know that much.
Thanks to
ASDavis for the link!
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I've been snail-mailing our family/business Christmas cards this year and they are getting a very good reception. People really seem to dig this cartoon for some reason. It's an illustration of us as little Fisher Price characters. The idea was Nora's and the drawing was mine.

Anywho, I thought I'd share it with everyone and wish everyone reading the blog and listening to the podcast good holiday cheer and a wonderful holiday season.
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Here's a pretty neat little flash-based story based on the Night Before Christmas that is just geeky enough to be cool.
Check it out. Thanks
Monica for the link!
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Published Thursday, December 15, 2005 by Len. 

Man, this just blows me away. I talked about Tivo offering podcasts last month on the blog, but to see it in action is truly amazing.
Unfortunately, we aren't featured, although our friend Brian at
Coverville is, that lucky dog. But you can subscribe to Jawbone using
this feed.It takes a while to plug in the URL with the Tivo remote, but dang! if that isn't the coolest thing I've seen in a while.
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Now, this is how to roll this Christmas:
Official Katamari Tees Via
BB.
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One of our favorite videoblogs, Rocketboom, has made the move to the small screen -- er, slightly larger screen -- and is now being offered as a
subscription service on Tivo.
Congratulations go out to
Amanda and
Andrew for scoring this major deal. When we first started this podcast, Nora and I made a prediction that Amanda would be the first internet breakout star -- that is, someone whose celebrity is born of the net and not from mainstream media. I dont' know about you, but I think this comes pretty close to a true statement.
And if you can't get enough RB, be sure to check out
this Jawbone interview from last month.
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Published Wednesday, December 14, 2005 by Len. 
Totally cool
Originally uploaded by jawboneradio.Well, it finally arrived...the Pez MP3 player that we gave away on the big birthday show. This thing...is. So. Cool. I'm very jealous of the folks over at Borderline for winning this. I wish I had one of my own.
But either way, if you wanted to pick one of these up for yourself, do so now. They make a great Christmas gift and in my opinion, a little cooler than an iPod Nano.
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Published Tuesday, December 13, 2005 by Len. 
Although I am much dismayed that there is no RSS feed to subscribe to for this show, it's great to see another one of our favorites.
James Lileks has thrown his hat into the
podcasting ring.If you haven't checked out Mr. Lileks'
Gallery Of Regrettable Food or his
Galley or Art Frahm paintings, you should do that right this instant . Nora and I consider this to be required reading for anyone with a heartbeat and a iota of humor in their veins.
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Well, just in time for the holidays, I'm selling some
Star Wars.
My friend and confidant, Jim, has tapped me to sell off some of his massive Star Wars collection. Over the next 2 weeks, I will be selling 31 items from his collection. Some of them are pretty cool, including some exclusive three pack figure collections.
See the stuff here.
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On this episode of Jawbone, we speak to author and former professional literary agent,
John Hodgman about his book
Areas of My Expertise. We chat about werewolves,
The 700 hoboes project, being an early podcasting pioneer with co-creator
Jonathan Coulton, and much more.

RUNNING TIME: 49:33
SHOW NOTES:
Links:
Areas of My ExpertiseLittle Gray Book LecturesThey Might Be Giants Venue Songs featuring John Hodgman as the Deranged Millionaire
Music:
Johnathan Coulton | Furry Old Lobster Don't forget to order your own
2006 Podcast Art Calendar!RSS feed.
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Published Sunday, December 11, 2005 by Len. 
Sad news this weekend. One of the funniest stand-ups ever,
Richard Pryor died from a heart attack yesterday.

I remember watching his routine while growing up and thinking it was the funniest thing I had ever seen. His movies should become training films for young comedians. If you haven't seen any of them, you gotta check em out now. I recommend
Live On the Sunset Strip. Hilarious film.
Goodbye, funnyman.
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Published Saturday, December 10, 2005 by Len. 
Check out
this link. You may even recognize a familiar friend in the video:
The Deranged Millionaire.
I'd still love to get TMBG on the show. Maybe, at the very least, they can get our giant foam hands back.
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Published Thursday, December 08, 2005 by Len. 

That seems to be the case. I logged into my account at
Cafepress to purchase a calendar of my own to see that the calendar is not available on the storefront, and that it has been flagged for review. Looking at their TOS, it looks as if they think that the calendar is violating third party rights:
NO photos, logos, caricatures, or other artwork depicting celebrities, such as Michael Jackson or Madonna, or other third parties. Just because you take a photograph of a celebrity does not give you the right to use that photograph on merchandise, even if you digitally manipulate the photograph.So, even though I drew these on behest of the podcasters, I can't sell them? Help me out here, Cafepress. In any event, I'm waiting to hear back from them on this issue. Hopefully they'll be back up in the shop soon.
If not, then those who ordered and recieved them have really gotten a rare item indeed.
UPDATE: Looks like it's the month of August that is in question. Darth Vader, Yoda, R2, Chewbacca, and Spock are all liscensed. Duh. So I can either take them off the calendar and reload. Yet, that leaves a very lonely month of August.
UPDATE #2: I had to severely cut the month of August and remove all the Star Wars and Star Trek images. I'm sorry to the podcasters who got cut, but I get Cafepress's point. Hopefully, it still makes for a decent calendar.
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Here's a hard hitting
article about the gold farming trade in China. Pretty twisted and disgusting if you ask me. But I guess that's what business is all about.
Thanks to
Andrew for the link.
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The opposition is fighting back.
Now they are enlisting via the net. Nora and I knew these skunk apes were smart, but we had no idea how smart.

Thanks to Neil for the link.
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In this show, we discuss the World of Warcrap round up, crazy people in church parking lots, King Kong and much more.

RUNNING TIME: 46:46
SHOW NOTES:
Links:
Extra LifeHometown TalesGREENLIGHTKing KongOka Zoo ShowWhat happened to
Mr. X and Just Julie?Music:
Jonathan Coulton | Podsafe Christmas Song
The Party Party | Sunday Bloody Sunday
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Published Wednesday, December 07, 2005 by Len. 
Sat in last night on another roundtable discussion on the
ExtraLife podcast. We talked about -- what else-
World Of Warcraft -- and paying real money for virtual money.

Lots of good discussion on the show, plus we find out that fellow panelist, Andrew, has more in his virtual bank account than in his real bank account. Good times.
Check out the show here.
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Published Tuesday, December 06, 2005 by Len. 
The hilarious Ricky Gervais (AKA David Brent from The Office) has
started a podcast called...ready for this?
The Ricky Gervais Show. Huzzah!

If you haven't seen the BBC version of
The Office, you don't know what you're missing.
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Published Monday, December 05, 2005 by Len. 
But it is.

BTW, I'm not certain, but I think this may be another viral campaign from our friends at
CP+B.Enjoy!
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Published Saturday, December 03, 2005 by Len. 
Can this photo be the ever-elusive,
mythical skunk ape we all know and love?

As Nora and I have said on the show, we're rooting for him.
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First, he is caught red-handed trying to
literally rewrite podcasting history, now
this?If anything, I'd be willing to give him control of the exit ramp off the Shoreway to W. 25th, and maybe,
maybe the Playhouse Square Starbucks. Maybe.
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Published Friday, December 02, 2005 by Len. 
On this episode of Jawbone, I go to the PRSA Cleveland Rocks Awards and find out what award a group of podcasts I helped produce this past summer won. We talk to a few key people from the agency Liggett Stashower as well as from Henkel, the client, Also, you get to hear the actual award being announced. Fun stuff. Come on and join us for a listen!

RUNNING TIME: 13:41
SHOW NOTES:
Links:
PRSA Cleveland RocksWindows on the RiverLiggett StashowerHenkel Consumer AdhesivesAvon Heritage Duck Tape FestivalMusic:
The Video Game Pianist | Super Mario Brothers
Kef | EvangelineDon't forget to order your own
2006 Podcast Art Calendar!RSS feed.
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Published Thursday, December 01, 2005 by Len. 
Is this for
real? I thought this might have been a Podshow podcast since I saw it over at Podcast Alley. But I don't think it is. I don't know what the hell it is. Quite frankly, it's making me sick just thinking about it. My only thought is that perhaps they wanted to make this podcast look so bad that people will talk about it.
BTW, if Jawbone ever goes commercial, I'm hoping this is what our site will look like.
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Yeah, it's got a great ensemble cast. Sure, it's got a creepy X-File-ish type feel to it. Of course, it's got mysterious monsters, puzzles and island secrets. But most of all, it has
Kate. And that's a good reason to like the show too.

According to
Scott at EL, Lost is off for six weeks! Ah well. At least I get my Wednesday nights back. I'll have to listen to that
Evangeline songto keep me comfort.
(shudders)BTW, if you haven't already checked out the unofficial LOST podcast,
The Transmission, add it to your reader today. It's a show done by two fans of the show who happen to live in Hawaii, where LOST films. Good stuff!
Also, I've been meaning to link this up for quite some time, but here is a wonderful article by author
Stephen King, who challenges LOST producers to end the show when the story is told, and not keep it on the air just for the money and ad revenue. I concur.
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Inspired by
Jawbone 81, Henrik (edited spelling! Sorry!) from the
Calvin and Hobbes Jumpstation dug through his archives and sent me this link of a CBC broadcast done in 1995, right before Calvin and Hobbes was retired from the funny pages. It's a great listen and fun to hear fans talk about a comic strip with such passion.

Listen to the show
here.
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Man, I must be totally green. I read
this NPR story about groups of laborers overseas who are getting paid to play World of Warcraft all day to "farm" certain items or "level up" a character. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that this kind of stuff is happening. But what can you expect when you have a willing market and groups with expendable income. Paying real cash money to level up your character in a video game? No thanks. That takes all the fun out of the game.
Thanks to
Danni for the story!
EDIT: Make sure you listen to the NPR story as well. There's more great info there.
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