Episode 18

== IE vs. Netscape, Star Wars and Phone Call ==
First Phone Call, Indy 500 VOIP, Homeland Security vs. BitTorrent, Netscape 8's ongoing woes
==From The Phones==
* An unnamed phone caller asks for mailed tapes. Tom and Molly think it’s cute, but ‘’no’’.
===Stories Covered===
* Indianapolis 500 cars use VOIP and Wireless access to send vehicle data to pit crews. Tom and Molly go on a tangent about the first woman Indy 500 driver. Tom reads the news copy, including two product placements, and he and Molly comment on the ad-driven state of auto racing. They imagine hacking racecars.
: www.informationweek.com/news/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=163701750 
* Homeland Security shuts down a major BitTorrent hub for distributing films, including Star Wars. The hosts sympathize with Hollywood but note that the efforts were late, ineffective, and largely symbolic.
: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/26/feds_close_elite/
* Netscape 8 breaks XML rendering in Internet Explorer; Microsoft recommends uninstalling Nestscape to solve the problem. Molly talks about Netscape 8’s troubled history. Tom recommends Firefox.
: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Windows/Microsoft-Netscape-8-Breaks-IE/
===Quotes===
“Remember the horse and the barn? Yeah, barn’s back there in 1998” - Tom