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Show notes:

The excellent Bryan Smyth, who will soon be composing our opening and closing themes, sells prints of some of his brilliant photo art here – http://www.kinakusai.deviantart.com/prints

The TWiT (This Week in Tech) network is available at http://www.twit.tv

Not the end of the decade? The Register article – http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/31/end_of_days_decade

Will we link to Mark’s myspace page of niceness? If we get permission.

James’s old Bebo blog for your public perusal – http://www.bebo.com/jay_a_storey

D’oh! Biz Stone was the co-founder of Twitter, not Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg is who I meant of course.

The man who sued match.com, the American dating service – http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2009/06/10/2009-06-10_suit_match_sticks_it_to_hopeful_users.html

A real Ironman suit? – http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=26796

Whoops again, it seems Wikipedia was actually founded in 2001. Here is detail of a study comparing it to an existing encyclopedia (The Encyclopedia Britannica) – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4530930.stm

A negative no no from the last decade, DRM – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management

The full uncut version of Watchmen, so far only available in America – http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=12960725&sourceid=1500000000000003260390&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=12960725

Rather than going “What the fuck?” Captain Picard sings you the alphabet – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRgnrsFwenI

Finally, remember you can contact us at podcast@defendersofthemirth.com and find us at http://www.twitter.com/mirthdefenders and Facebook page ‘Defenders of the Mirth’.