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Trumix.com listings available of FBi 94.5 : Virtual Vices Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. VIRTUAL VICES: 5 Robot Threats We all know robots are electronic revolutionaries silently plotting to end the age of human overlords. So which five are the biggest threat to humanity? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Authentic viral videos In honour of Weezer's new Pork and Beans music video, we ask: what makes a successful viral video? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Grand Theft Hypo Sure, it's set world records for sales and stirred the controversy pot more than a few times, but is Grand Theft Auto IV worth all the hype? NB: to clarify - in the game, you don't get "points" for hitting pedestrians... you can just pick up their cash. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: ROFLCon Memes! How to impress your nerdy friends with talk of memes. And the cool stuff they got up to at ROFLCon, the inaugural real-life gathering of funny internet things. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Binary Love Geekboys who have used programming, videogames and the internet to win the game... OF LOVE. (Oh, and those who got burnt too) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Papercraft Sick of all the out-specced, overclocked, soon-to-be-obsolete technology out there? Grab some craft scissors, some paper, and listen in... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Video embarrassment Who are the people who have become famous for their embarrassing online videos, and where are they now? Covering Afroninja, the Nintendo 64 kid, and a bit of George Bush thrown in for good measure. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Pranks is how we rickroll Virtual Vices celebrates April Fool's day with crying children, flying penises, and Rick Astley. Plus how to protect yourself from nasty pranks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Map Attack! Grab your virtual sextant and navigate through some of the cooler online map mashups with gigs, opinions, art and novels hidden within. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Spamalot Spam... the bastard child of zombie botnets from outer cyberspace. True story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: South By South Web The event highlights and top websites from SXSW Interactive - the place where the geeks gather when there's loud music outside. Hit up fbiradio.com for sweet sweet linkin'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Wikidating How Wikipedia is a lot like online dating... especially when the Wiki founder's ex-girlfriend from Fox News starts selling his clothes on eBay! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Star Wars Geeks Take one scene from Star Wars. Place on large fanbase. Add a sprinkling of reeeaaaallllly dedicated fans. Mix in chocolate, lego, and soldering irons. Upload to web. Bon appe-geek! Yummy... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: No 'i' in 'crowd' This week, we cover the good, the bad, and the ugly of crowdsourcing - from creative collectives to virtual stirrers and their digital mischief. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Alternate Reality Games ARG! The brave new world of games-that-are-not-"games", of Cloverfield monsters and Terminator mysteries, of narratives woven throughout the web to make you wonder where reality ends and the game begins... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Social Spying Is the CIA really collecting Facebook info, or is it just your creepy ex-classmate that's stalking you online? Get the Nancy Drew lowdown for you online private parts (teehee!) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Post-piracy music Feel bad for downloading music? Dearrockers.org helps you make amends by posting the muso some cash and a letter. Also, find out about a secret BitTorrent song sabotage project... oooh, mysterious... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Stoopid Christmas Gifts Stuff your stockings with pre-emptive excitement: it's the last Virtual Vices for 2007, and Chloe Lake's bringing you (and presenter Lachie Macara) the stoopidest gadgets of the silly season. Happy Festivus! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Friends With Benefits It's FBi's Supporter Drive, and since FBi is your "friend with benefits", Chloe Lake brings the web goodness to show that friends don't let friends click on bad links. More info at www.fbiradio.com . Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Quirky QWERTYs Get ur QWERTYUIOP on and check out the weirdest and best keyboards we can find. Hit up the fbiradio.com 'Program Grid' for more links. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Mysteries of Teh Intarwebz This week Chloe Lake asks the big questions about life, the universe, and www backslashing into the outer limits of the dark web. All that plus Cosby Kids and robots - need I say more? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Mysteries of Teh Intarwebz This week Chloe Lake asks the big questions about life, the universe, and www backslashing into the outer limits of the dark web. All that plus Cosby Kids and robots - need I say more? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Net Art Blow your mind (and your browser) as Chloe Lake shares some examples of Net Art. Bring a beret, daddy-o... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Best Mobile Apps & Games Chloe Lake shares how to turn your mobile into a music machine, a remote control, a GPS device, and a tool for crack-like game addiction. Oh, and there's a bit of Sextris, too. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Anti-Piracy, Pro-Douchebags? Chloe Lake looks at the RIAA's, um, illustrious lawsuit history, and questions whether their methods are all that accurate... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Net Anonymity Wanna know how to keep The Man off your back while you're online? Chloe Lake gives the lowdown on staying down-low while browsing - no filters, no lawsuits, no worries! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Tech Headlines Chloe Lake brings you news of tech, gaming, and why Boston hates geeks - *especially* ones with circuitry-decorated hoodies & a penchant for Play-Doh... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Wayfarer Artist Kate Richards joins Virtual Vices to talk about Wayfarer - a Sydney-based mash of gaming, cyborgs, technology & theatre... It's kind of like the thinking person's hepped-up lasertag! (www.myspace.com/wayfarerproject) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Wardriving in Melbourne How does the hype of wardriving live up to the reality? Chloe Lake roadtests this wiley wireless gadgetwy in the streets of Melbourne... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Leeeerrroooyyyy Jenkins!! Don your ROFLs and pack some LOLs as Chloe Lake discovers the dude who made gaming funny again. Leeroy Jenkins: The man, the myth, the legend... now 32.3% (repeating of course) more entertaining. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: One Laptop Per Child Access to technology should be a human right - but sometimes, it can all go horribly wrong. Chloe Lake explains the One Laptop Per Child program in all its flawed beauty. And as you listen to this, tens of children in Nigeria will most probably be browsing pr0n. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: The Engines Of Search Ever wondered how search engines work, and if they really are run by a squadron of ethically-compromised (and/or evil) robots? Chloe Lake tells a twisty tale of the dark web, bad bots, and the pre-Google days of search. Listen now if you're feeling lucky, cyberpunk. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Hacking, Phreaking, and Cracking Can you really hack a Coke machine? Or open your car with a phone? And didn't "hacking" die in the 90s anyway? This week, Chloe Lake brings you the crunchy-goodness highlights of today's hackalicious technology (Angelina Jolie's acting skillz not included). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: DIY Games Hey buttonmasher! Wanna make a game? With Tom Cruise in it?? If you answered "Yes" to at least one of those Qs - listen up! Chloe Lake covers the quickest and geekiest ways to make your own game, including the low-down on Project Joystick (www.projectjoystick.com). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Symphonic Electronic Don your tux for the review of "Play! A Videogame Symphony", then strip down to your band pants for the 2nd movement of the Vices Suite: the Music Geeks / Music Tech Mashup. Conducted by Chloe Lake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Media Mythbusting From Hogzillas to Japanese Sheepoodles, Chloe Lake rips apart the web of lies often woven by online media... and in the debris, she finds Shaun Davies - the aussie journo who was 1st to prove that Japanese women really do know what poodles (and sheep) look like. Don't myth it! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Email Hoaxes Chloe Lake will tell you how to win money from Bill Gates' Nigerian bank account if you pass this on to 10 of your friends who aren't dying or cursed and who don't know about the Progesterex rapists that are trying to win a Guinness World Record for most gullible people conned into hitting "Forward". Got it? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Dump Toxic Technology Thats right dump it all over me... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Chatbots! Hey boltface, talk nerdy to me! Chloe Lake, robot lover and chat fiend, logs on to the world of chatbots - machines that can carry on a (sometimes) intelligent conversation with you. CRUSH, KILL, ENJOY! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Tech Tips for Phantom Pregnancies It's last Virtual Vices with Peach & Shag - and to honour the occasion, Chloe finally fronts up to the phantom pregnancy rumours to share the best ways to pass geekdom on to one's own (albeit phantom) progeny. Test-tube babies and reproductive robots, this one's for you! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Bionicle Heroes Review Remember how simple Lego was when you were a kid? Well, it's no longer just blocks and plastic people... Chloe Lake ventures into a complex world of robots, gaming, and cultural controversies, all packed into what we like to call: The Bionicle Heroes Game Review. Click thru to get Lego-less and block out (boomtish)!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: The Wii Elbow Outbreak! Wii Elbow - it doesn't mean small joints; it means painful gaming! But is it the first affliction to hit gamers? Heck no! Listen up as Chloe Lake delves into the medical textbooks to find ye olde gaming injuries of yore, and some ye newe remedies to cure said ills. Zounds! Click through for your 8-bit medikit... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: May Fools! What happens when April Fool's goes online? Travel back in time as Chloe Lake delves into the heady jambalaya of geeks, pranks, toilets, and Cold War paranoia. Click on to re-live the best pranks eva. EVA! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Does DotCom Equal DotCash? Ker-ching! When Google bought YouTube, no-one knew exactly how much the video site's founders earned from the transaction - until now. Let's just say that dotcoms are looking more appealing than Lotto scratchies these days. But can anyone make fast cash just by setting up a website? Chloe Lake looks through the hyperlinks of dotcom history and is surprised by what she finds... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Putting Sydney On The, Um, Map We all know that Sydney's pretty hard to navigate... but what happens when the Google Maps plane goes AWOL? Chloe Lake tells the twisty tale of mapping, flying, and things going pear-shaped on Australia Day...  (isn't that the Aussie tradition?!) ... This edition includes the EXCLUSIVE Virtual Vices Acapella Intro by Chloe & Chris, breakin out their mad-1337-roXXor-beatz live in the studio. Don't miss it.UPDATE: some of the Google Maps pics are now available online... just don't ch ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Mobile Gaming Pt 2 - Mafia Wars Yakuza Don your Ninja Blacks and strap on your Seikos! Virtual Vices is turning Japanese with Part 2 of the Mobile Gaming series. Chloe Lake reviews Mafia Wars Yakuza, talks about mobile action games, and finds out if you really can play twitchy stuff on something the size of a shuriken. Is your Vices-Fu strong enough, grasshopper? Click to find out! FBhaaaaiya! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: The Shady Story of Sealand Sealand: a tiny nation-state formed on an old UK Navy base in the middle of international waters off the coast of England, wrested single-handedly from squatters by the original monarch (no joke). Now in financial trouble, Sealand has become a potential safehaven for shady website-owners. Chloe Lake opens the top-secret Virtual Vices dossier to see what happens when digital pirates venture into the real high seas... Arrrr!!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Mobile Gaming Pt 1 - Brain Juice review Are you a frustrated genius? Do you own a mobile phone? Well, oversized-temporal-lobers rejoice, because Brain Juice is a mobile game designed to make you smarter. Why? Cos nerds are HOTTTT, that's why, bitchez. Chloe Lake will give you the lowdown on the game, whilst miraculously maintaining a straight face amidst pregnancy rumours. Cos that's how we roll homies. WTF? Just listen already!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: World of Whatcraft? Burning Whosade? Chloe Lake brings you up-to-speed on this whole Warcraft shenanigan, just in time for the release of its bouncing baby Burning Crusade - (wait til it's a toddler)... She also gets the launch party lowdown from Jill Maxwell, and finds out what sort of dress code applies to l337 g4merZ. Clue: underwear optional! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: The Fury Interviews Warcraft? Bah. Evercrack? Pshaw. Fury is where it's at. This Massively-Multiplayer-Online-Game is being developed by Auran, a game company based in Perth. Fury is one of the biggest gaming projects undertaken in Australia... so what does it take for a bunch of locals to bung one of these MMO things together? Chloe Lake (Geek, Esq.) talks to Adam Carpenter (Lead Designer) & Tony Hilliam (BossMan) about game addiction, water businesses, and the Fury within... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Take A Deep Breath & Count To Wii... It's like a jungle out there, sometimes the consoles make you want to sell your own soul. Huh, what, break it down... Following the first official console-related death, FBi's First Lady of Geek (read: Chloe Lake) urges everyone to chill out, calm down, and take a leaf out of the sharing-caring Nintendo Wii book. Yes, I said Wii. Stop giggling you lot :) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: The Console [Fan] Wars How far would you go to get your hands on a PS3? This week, Chloe Lake will take you from the rabid fanaticism of Sony fanboys to overzealous eBayers as she looks at the less-than-shiny underbelly of the gaming world. Remember kids: games don't kill people, consoles do! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Get Your Xmas Cash Back! No one deserves presents as much as you. And what better way is there to win back all that cashola you wasted on others than to earn it in exceptionally geeky (and oftentimes dodgy) ways?! Open your wallet (& your ears) and geek-grrrl Chloe Lake will show you how to download the dollars! Ker-CHING!!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Worst Computer Crashes EVA!! When Good Computers Go Bad... You thought they were your friends. You thought you could trust them. You thought wrong! When computers crash, they can take your whole world with them, leaving a trail of circuits and tears. Listen up (& back up) as Chloe Lake talks you through the ups & downs of machinic malfunctions (but mainly just the downs).  Indulge in a little schadenfreude as she counts down the Worst Computer Crashes Of All Time... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SPECIAL DELIVERY : Podcasts from FBiRadio.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Top 3 Car Games There's a reason they say women shouldn't drive... that's why they invented driving games for Chloe Lake Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: The End of Illegal MP3s If your life of crime taking it's toll? Are you sick of ducking for cover everytime ARIA's lawyers come knockiung with a subpoena and a court horder to empty your hard-disk of all your britney bootlegs... Well armistice is just a gentle, soothing click away... Chloe Lake (geek girrrl bi-atch) stands on the mount and prophesizes about the end of the illegal MP3. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: A World Without Wires Untangle the wires and feel those warm electronic vibes wavingover you...and feeding that tumour in your right thigh.... hmmm, the future is succulent. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: The Montreal Gunman's Blog Its Not Funny. But's its very interesting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: GooTube (get it?) Once there was Google and YouTube... for years they casted longing looks at each other across cyberspace study hall. YouTube was the prettiest girl in the class, just slghtly ahead of that friend-grabbing moll MySpace. All the boys wanted to cop a some of the 'tube (such was the parlance of the times). But this week YouTube made her choice... and after a hot and sweaty 2 billion dollar hanky-pank in the online broom cupboard we know have the latest dot.com teenage preganacy... we call her ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: What's a Wiki? Chloe Lake brings down totalitarian technocracies everywhere and talks demoncratisation of information in the world of Wiki's. Confused? Press play and all will make sense. Promise. Scouts Honour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: "Loco Roco" Game Review It looks like a rolling ball of chocolate and its just as freakin additive, Chloe road-tests the new PSP Game LOCO ROCO Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Accessible Technology How dyou get your blackberry to be wheel-chair friendly? Geek Girl Chloe Lake talks how to make Technology Accessible for all. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Future Technology Will the future bring lots of Future/Sex Love/Sounds? WIll new technology finally bring SexxyBack. Geek Girrl Chloe Lake has the low down. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: 100th Episode Retrospective DISCLAIMER: This is roughly round-a-bout the 100th episode Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Religious Games Can Religion be found in games? Can you have a religious experience in games? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Home Studio Set-up Got a Gear Habit? Let Chloe sort you out Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Game Review - Fear Chloe confesses and faces her addiction to the game fear Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Spirituality In Games A state of trance induced through repetitive action â Religion or Gaming Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Myspace Does Myspace have any friends? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Games Addiction Chris and Chloe talk Gaming Addictions and how to deal with them Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Flash Back Back in the day when Spectrum HoloByteâ.. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Digital vs Analogue Music New technology fuelling our indecisive music listening habits Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Racism in Games Does Racism in games exist and does it matter? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Exploding Laptops Laptops can lower your sperm count or just blow that thing clean off Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Mac on PC Action One Boozy Night with Bill Gates and Steve JobsÃïÂ. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Polycom Communicator More then a review this is an all encompassing tour from VOiP to Skype and beyond Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Keyboard Culture The implications of computers on human communication Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Top5 Tech Support Tips (fixed) A 5 step support program for dealing with computer rage Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: Geocaching Combine GPS and Murder Mysteries and you end up with Geocaching Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES: VOiP VOiP the P.O.T.S killer or another useless acronym? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES : Search Engines Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES : What's Happening to My Screen!!! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES : Internet 2.0 & EmoKids on the EmoNet Chloe delves into Internet 2.o and the world of internet coding mash-ups and then we all poke fun and the emo. Fun for all the family. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | VIRTUAL VICES : Mark Echo's Gettin Up! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |