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Show notes:

Steve Jobs’s liver saved by Car (not motorcycle) accident – http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MensHealthNews/steve-jobs-talks-liver-transplant-apple-event/story?id=8528151

Apple iPad announcment – http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1001q3f8hhr/event/index.html

iPad specs page – http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/

Left for Dead 2 Australian censorship – http://www.ripten.com/2009/11/02/left-4-dead-2-australian-censorship-sucks-hairy-kangaroo-balls/

Netbook comic reading using Comic Rack – http://comicrack.cyolito.com/

iPhone comic reader mobi app – http://comicreader.mobi/

6.5% of BBC’s overall budget goes to salaries – http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5ibZpGYFaN2qsnFHXgpbBjsOEfKRw

Apple’s ‘pixel doubling’ issue – http://kevinnggames.blogspot.com/2010/02/what-does-game-running-natively-on-ipad.html

Apple’s TV Network Subscription (still rumour) – http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20091102/apples-itunes-pitch-tv-for-30-a-month/

A Clockwork Orange – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange

Mass Effect 2, available to purchase today – http://www.play.com/Games/PC/4-/10287938/Mass-Effect-2/Product.html

‘Borg Week’ comics are available to enjoy at – http://www.cosmicstresshead.com

Knights of the Old Republic – http://www.bioware.com/games/knights_old_republic/

Go walking, that’s what you do – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L84dSVDg5XU

Final Fantasy XIII – http://www.strategyinformer.com/xbox360/finalfantasyxiii/preview.html

Astro Boy:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375568/
Trailer – http://www.apple.com/trailers/summit/astroboy/

Empire movie review we disagree with – http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/reviewcomplete.asp?FID=135640

XKCD Comic relating to how long ago things happened, entitled ‘Scary’ – http://xkcd.com/647/

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/
Trailer – http://www.apple.com/trailers/touchstone/hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy/trailer_3/

ID Software’s Quake – http://www.idsoftware.com/games/quake/quake/

Geoff Johns scripted ‘Absolute Justice’ smallville episode – http://splashpage.mtv.com/2010/02/06/smallville-absolute-justice-review/ & ‘Legion of Superheroes’ – http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=17458

Brian Michael Bendis’s Ultimate Spiderman – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Spider-Man

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