Monthly Archives: November 2006

Rubenerd Show 188 (Thu 30/Nov/2006)

The evil Zune (part one) episode!

Ruben takes a satirical look at the Zune (Microsoft’s jealous take on the iPod), real world versus geekdom, shooting PlaysForSure partners, Chris Feurgeson from the Late Late Show, why it’s good for iPod users and Steve Ballmer on recklessness!

Download MP3 ↓ 12:00 minutes, 5.5MiB

Rubenerd Show 187 (Wed 29/Nov/2006)

The stupid address, long hair and tickets episode!

Ruben’s evil laziness-induced long hair, weird city state address thingys, Ruben’s MadPlayer’s Renaissance, going with my mum to the hospital, stupid pharmacy ticket machines, Scottish/German family history and Douglas Adams on nerds!

Download MP3 ↓ 10:00 minutes, 4.6MiB

Rubenerd Show 186 (Tue 28/Nov/2006)

The Michael Franks Christmas CD review episode!

Ruben reviews Michael Franks’s 2003 CD: Watching the Snow! Songs reviewed are Island Christmas, The Way We Celebrate New Year’s, Christmas In Kyoto and I Bought You A Plastic Star (For Your Aluminium Tree), and British actors on being famous!

Download MP3 ↓ 10:00 minutes, 4.6MiB

Rubenerd Show 185 (Mon 27/Nov/2006)

The Atheists celebrating Christmas episode!

Exploding Yakult probiotic containers, Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills, Christmas decorations (on Rubenerd Show), and Rubenerd Blog, Atheists celebrating Christmas (Tim Li, it happens!), the Servage Christmas Competition, and Elke throwing Yakult!

Download MP3 ↓ 10:00 minutes, 4.6MiB

Rubenerd Show 184 (Fri 24/Nov/2006)

The silly signs and Lion King nostalgia episode!

A cameo appearance by my dad Rainer Schade (with canned applause!), messing around with echo settings (Yamaha MG8/2Fx), Elton John’s Lion King song (I was 9 years old!), collecting warning signs (high voltage bathrooms!) and why Elke hated 183!

Download MP3 ↓ 10:00 minutes, 4.6MiB

Rubenerd Show 183 (Thu 23/Nov/2006)

The W3C standards rant episode!

The Sims 2 (building houses, the ultimate boolprop cheat!), cameo coughing appearances by Elke Schade, the W3C rant (unsupported tags, standards that nobody wants to use!), the Rubenerd Forum random images, and Carl Sagen’s billions and billions of stars!

Download MP3 ↓ 10:00 minutes, 4.6MiB