This week, I was supposed to be joined by Erik but he never arrived from his portrait photography appointment. I got well into the show, and then Chris arrived and hoped on air with me to get into our segments. I really do recommend you give the architecture story a once over. I talked about mobile carriers a fair amount during the show.

Windows 8 App Store
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/12/win-8-app-store-revealed-more-money-for-devs-beta-in-late-february.ars
https://blogs.msdn.com/themes/blogs/generic/post.aspx?WeblogApp=windowsstore&y=2011&m=12&d=06&WeblogPostName=announcing-the-new-windows-store&GroupKeys=

Google isn’t a Country, thanks for Clarifying Schmidt
http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/07/googles-eric-schmidt-google-is-not-a-country/

AT&T Worst Cell Carrier (Again?)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-57337424-17/at-t-rated-worst-cell-phone-carrier-for-second-year-in-a-row

AT&T &T The Xmas fruitcake that won’t go away
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/07/us-att-idUSTRE7B620Z20111207

Nokia Teams up with T-Mobile
http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/7/2618389/nokia-t-mobile-usa-december-14

Verizon and the Galaxy Nexus
http://blogs.computerworld.com/19381/verizon_galaxy_nexus_google_wallet

New NAND Flash Memory
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/12/worlds-first-128gb-20nm-nand-flash-could-pack-25tb-into-a-25-ssd.ars

DOJ looks into ebooks
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052970203501304577084331269336926-lMyQjAxMTAxMDAwNzEwNDcyWj.html

6-bit Byte
Mythbusters: Science on TV, no Physics trainig
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-57338804-52/the-mythbusters-long-history-of-accidents-and-mishaps/

Anatomy of a Skyscraper
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/12/the-shards-bleeding-edge-anatomy-of-a-21st-century-skyscraper.ars

Facebook Frackups:
Facebook Looks to Famous
http://allthingsd.com/20111207/facebook-wants-writers-and-famous-people-to-promote-its-new-subscribe-feature/

Science & Kickers:
We Can Get Off This Rock!
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/12/kepler-planet-candidate-count-clears-2000-first-habitable-zone-candidate-confirmed.ars

Plants do Quantum Physics
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/12/more-evidence-found-for-quantum-physics-in-photosynthesis.ars

EMAIL
Hey,

Last week you mentioned the ability of a hacker to compromise an HP printer, and possibly set it on fire. You totally dropped the ball with that story, all I have to say is “Damn it feels good to be a Gangster”

Cheers!
Adam from Pittsburgh