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The Round Up 54 – Jim Carroll and Gentlemen Broncos

Posted on September 13, 2009, 9:02 pm, by andy, under Show Notes, The Round Up.

Andy Sorcini aka Mr. Baby Man from The Drill Down and Greg Davies aka cGt2099 from Social Blend join forces for The Round Up – a short mini podcast focusing on some entertainment news, with a preview of what’s coming up in Social Blend and The Drill Down.

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How to Accurately Predict the Lottery on Live TV

Posted on September 12, 2009, 7:55 pm, by andy, under Articles.

Most Americans aren’t familiar with Derren Brown, the mentalist-cum-magician-cum-con man, but in the UK, he’s been boggling the minds of TV watchers for years, with his oft-unexplained feats of psychological tomfoolery, such as reading minds, performing live séances, and predicting horse races. In the first of series of live specials for UK’s Channel 4, he [...]

Tags: Derren Brown, illusion, lottery, magic, misdirection, prediction
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The Drill Down 103 – NOFOLLOW on Digg

Posted on September 7, 2009, 5:30 am, by andy, under Show Notes, The Drill Down.

This week the team and Social Blade podcast host JD Rucker explore Digg’s revised NOFOLLOW stance, eBay’s sale of Skype, Disney’s purchase of Marvel, Gmail outages, and the bill that allows the president to shut off the internet.

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