Dan Pink, Dual Core, level translators - Mumble Mumbo Jumbo

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A few audio snafus this week, but we decided to leave them in for the “real experience”. We’ll get it eventually.

• • Chris and Jeri are broadcasting a live video show to announce the 555 contest winners.
  • Dave is stressing about the Tektronix contest. He's trailing in votes!
  • Jeremy Blum was featured on The Discovery Channel! Awesome!
  • Dave hates standby power consumption. The Agilent 3000 series scope has 6.5W standby power!
  • Chris missed out on the trend of NerdCore Rap!
    • Chris found out about Dual Core from the recent tweets about Notacon in Cleveland.
    • Dave enjoys the movie, Nerdcore Rising about MC Frontalot.
    • MC Frontalot's most recent video.
  • Chris has been reading Dan Pink books lately, because of the video below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

• • Dave enjoys the TI TXB0104 voltage level translator and had a fun time trying to troubleshoot the circuit.

And the Article explaining some of the mysteries

• The MathWorks has released a C compiler for MATLAB code for translating designs. Won't this hurt young engineers?
• China starts to feel some outsourcing pain as Foxconn looks to move some manufacturing over to Brazil. (the mistakenly posted UMC story is here)