Me and Anand have descended from our treetop houses once again to bring you this week’s episode of the Not So Horrible podcast. The monkeys were particularly feisty this week, and the vines secreted some sort of strange goo all over my khakis. But luckily, the water taxi was on time, and we made it to the shortwave radio with only minor discomfort.

Note to self: bring back monkey repellent.

Having spent all our money on Khaki-specialty dry cleaning, we couldn’t afford paper this week. Thus, today’s episode is being brought to you with little to no planning whatsoever. This is probably for the better — the trees have taken root in our inkwells. Talking points include:

• The Super Bowl comes to town. We pretend we actually watch sports. Pigs everywhere worry for their skin for yet another year.
• We discuss Caprica, the new, hit teen drama! It’s like 90210 in space. But not quite. In fact, not at all. It’s a Battlestar Galactica spin off, you fools. With wallpaper I can’t stop looking at.
• I finished Mass Effect. In unrelated news, 2007 called — they want my computer back.
• Anand plays Oblivion all day and forgets to take out the trash again.
• Finally, we talk Project Tentacle Titan, Facebook’s rumoured webmail platform. With over 400 million users worldwide, this could be the platform that ensnares us all.

Length: 32:49
Close: M4 Part II – Faunts (Mass Effect OST)
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I’m going to apologize in advanced. You might be a little creeped-out by today’s podcast image, but I swear, the human-faced Pokemon above holds total relevance to this episode’s discussion. Of course, there’s a lot more going on this week besides Pokemon banter; things to expect from this episode…

• Google CEO surprises no-one and resigns from Apple’s Board of Directors. If you couldn’t see that one coming, you might want to get your botched laser-eye surgery looked at.
• Good news: Bell has announced the launch date for the Canadian Palm Pre. Bad news: You still have to sign a contract with Bell.
• Microsoft and Yahoo embark on a colossal search engine joint-venture. Weather forecast for the next 10 years: regret, with a chance of complete irrelevance.
• We talk about everyone’s favourite medical peripheral, the Wii Heart Rate Monitor. Perhaps we can get a Lie Detector channel?
• Television banter: Edward James Olmos visits the UN, with amusing results, and Futurama’s voice actors return from the brink.

The sharp-eyed amongst you might notice that this is being posted late Wednesday evening. Refreshed and relaxed from both of our vacations, this should be the last delay for the near future. Regularly scheduled programming resumes Monday, and we have a special episode ready too!

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