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hello everybody I'm Brian Cooley in from Hollywood who's out on jury duty even though she told the judge she considers sneezing to be a hanging offense that didn't get her excused so some poor bastard is sitting at the defendants table in a pool of sweat wondering if you'll get the death penalty or a personalized Molly rant and wondering which would be worse first up the gadget of the week the geyser of the week are the twin Titans of titillation from CES the show we just got back from I'm speaking of the dueling 55-inch oled tvs from LG and Samsung the LG you on our best of show award but both made people stare and grin like they just saw a three breasted stripper the image quality coming off these guys was good enough to make you hate whatever is on your living room wall right now but the best part was around the side yard where the cases on these sets are as little as one sixth of an inch thick yes at CES these 55-inch oled make the biggest impact and when the LG model arrives in q3 it'll do the same thing to your checking account at an expected price we're guessing of maybe 8 grand I'm still in now the news the SOPA blackout is happening as we are on set today with sites like beer and mowing dark for a day in protest of this proposed law that would be pretty heavy-handed tactics to shut down alleged pirate outside the reach of us laws and do so in ways that seem to have few if any of the checks and balances afforded by process I don't know I don't download pirated I can't imagine SOPA would affect me right Bill Gates is ending malaria and Apple is now targeting scoliosis as we tape today we're awaiting an announcement from apple that is expectedly one of the biggest moves ever to digitize textbooks relieving kids of 40-pound backpacks full of books with 40 year old information ironically i'm reminded of the phrase what's wrong with education can't be fixed by technology Steve Jobs said that Jerry Yang has departed Yahoo where he stubbornly held on to the title of chief Yahoo even a the 90s ended now that he has a lot of time and a lot of money on his hands it begs for a special lightning round of top five please say things that tech bigwigs do next number five build a new home with a studio so they can jam with John Perry Barlow number four find a VC firm to join and stroke their chin thoughtfully at new ideas number three launch an incubator and inflict the next Sean Parker on us number to start a rocket ship company and number one do nothing as big as they did the first time around please Jerry break the mould and finally the Zappos site got hacked this week exposing like 24 million user records probably to some shoe fetishist who's also an IT admin who gets off on scale as much as Souls not only is the Zappos culture a little funky but so is their response they shut down phone support and went all email they set up a special site for changing your password which didn't work at least not at first and everyone on their support staff was immediately issued two joints per shift well not that last part but their reputation as the tie-dyed side of Amazon didn't exactly serve them very well when this very real very boring and very serious crisis came down that's the buzz report for this week everybody I'm Brian Cooley molly's back next week with the verdict you