0:01:27 Introduction

• Apparently Fab was wrong and the Turkish population of Berlin is bigger than that of Duisburg…
• Check out the new 20lb Sounds site
• Fab talks about Doctor Mo’s “Genetic” wallpaper and this cool Game of Life one
• Wikipedia article on Conway’s Game of Life
• Somebody build a huge Fedora logo on our Minecraft server

• We are number 3 in the Technology section at PodcastAlley
• Booze of the Week: Fab just got back from a tasting trip to his favourite vineyard and is having red wine

0:15:55 Releases, Security & News

• Finnix 100
• MeeGo 1.1
• DragonFly BSD 2.8
• OpenBSD 4.8
• Security releases: Firefox 3.6.12/3.5.15 & Thunderbird 3.1.6/3.0.10
• monotone 0.99
• Midori 0.2.9
• Asterisk 1.8.0
• Firefox zero-day vulnerability
• Firesheep
• Twelve year old spots major Firefox security bug and bags $3,000 bounty
• Gnome project receives $15,000 for accessibility work
• Banshee gets new UI for podcasts and will become Ubuntu 11.04 default music player
• Oracle goes in hard on Java suit against Google
• Launchpad trademark in the U.S. — thanks to Ricardo Lameiro (@rlameiro) for digging this up
• More on Unity: article by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, statement by Jono Bacon, Simon Phipps on Unity copyright assignment to Canonical

1:00:51 Microwatch

• Is Microsoft dropping Silverlight?
• Russia drops Windows as their national OS

1:08:56 Crapplewatch

• Apple attacking Motorola’s Droid with another patent lawsuit
• VLC Developer censored for enforcing GPL against Apple

1:14:16 Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Evgeny Kuznetsov, Balthazar, Alison Chaiken, Benjamin Dumke and all flattr-ers!
• James Hugman defends Comic Sans use in schools and Fab disagrees with him
• David Yang wrote to tell us that Sintel and Blender were featured on the cover of issue 135 of the monthly magazine 3D World
• Torstein Adolf Wintersethsays that in 2007, the Ig-Nobel prize in literature was given to a trio of researchers for determining that rats sometimes can’t distinguish between recordings of Japanese and Dutch played backwards — this having to do with some language comments of ours in a previous episode–Damian Kelly sent us a message saying that a line in the Beastie Boys song Paul Revere made him think of Fab
• Alison Chaiken recommends googlecl, Xournal and parcellite
• Scott Lavender, the Ubuntu Studio project lead, emails us a lot of information about the project — you can read up on some of the stuff going on over there here and here
• Stephen Michael Kellat wrote to us about a podcast done by the Ubuntu Ohio group called The Burning Circle
• Mark P. says Canonical is currently revamping Unity and that the first release should be out on November 25
• And we had other emails this week from Georg Sauthoff, Brian Gordon, Mark Law, Christopher, Badry Darkoush, Andrew Antle, Tarnus, Matt Read and Ray Woods
• Events: OpenRheinRuhr, November 13 – 14 in Oberhausen, Germany / Linux.conf.au, January 24 – 29, 2011 in Brisbane, Australia / Mid-America GNU/Linux Networkers Conference, May 6 – 7 2011 in St. Louis, MO

Song: Jimmy Carter by 20lb Sounds