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Ep. 959: 99 cent sound of silence
Created: 04/23/2009
Video description: One of our listeners is stunned that you can buy a song from John Cage in the iTunes store that is 4:33 of silence. In other Apple news, Tim Cook thinks netbooks suck. And Time Warner says fine. If you don't want to pay our outrageous data fees we won't give you faster Internet. So there.

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