The 404 Podcast

Natali Del Conte makes her triumphant return from E3 and joins us on today's show. After suffering through two years with an HTC Mogul, Jeff finally upgraded to the Palm Pre this weekend. Tune in for Jeff's personal review as well as some unfortunate news that has us all reeling...with laughter.

(Credit: Jeff Bakalar)

All right, first thing's first: NATALI DEL CONTE. That should be enough to get you guys to listen to today's show. She's finally back from her Tour de California. She was actually at E3 this past week and she gives us the scoop on her first impressions of the event. Actually, it turns out that Natali's been taking some gulps of Jeff's unique brand of Haterade! It's always a pleasure to welcome Natali back to the show, even though she's crossed over the dark side. Welcome home, girl!

We've been talking about the Palm Pre ad nauseam for weeks now leading up to Saturday's release, and Jeff actually woke himself up before the crack of dawn and picked one up. Be sure to listen to the whole episode to hear about the fiasco that happened in line, it's unbelievable, and kind of funny. Pix or it didn't happen, Bakalar! After all that happened, Jeff successfully picked up a Palm Pre, and he loves it! All his contacts from Facebook, Gmail, etc...are now consolidated; music transfers are easy thanks to iTunes (fingers crossed that Apple shows mercy); and the keyboard is surprisingly easy for Jeff's ham shank fingers. Sadly, though, there's one very significant, deal-breaking, horrendous manufacturer's error that needs to be correctly immediately before Jeff turns back into a pumpkin and we lose him forever. Tune in to hear more about this awful glitch and how you can fix the problem!

After getting bad news about the death of this year's CNET holiday party, we wallow in sorrow for awhile but count our blessings that our two week vacation is still in tact. We move on to congratulate Logitech on their 1 billionth mouse and recommend a few of our favorite peripherals. We also wag a finger at Canada and unleash a horror story about their massacre of our beloved Sea Unicorn, the Narwhal. Shame on you, we thought you were better than us!

There are two very large problems that are tackled in today's episode. First one is the fact that our CNET holiday party has gone missing. What happened to it? It got canceled! Unbelievable, how is Wilson going to dip his pen in company ink now? We're still happy that we get to keep our extended holiday vacation though, so look forward to some exciting repeat episodes come Christmas. The next problem at hand here is the large scale massacre of the Narwhal perpetrated by our frenemies to the North. What the hell, Canada? The Sea Unicorn is, like, the most mythical creature we can actually see and you go and kill 500 of them? That's like killing Bigfoot and stuffing him in a refrigerator, it's just irresponsible. Your report card isn't looking so good either, friends...first the beheading, then the Saskatoon, now the Narwhals? What would the B-52s think? Let's pour one out for our underwater friends we've lost in this horrible display of inhumanity. :( x 10!

EPISODE 115