FBi 94.5's Virtual Vices

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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?

Go for a ROFL in the hay with Chloe Lake as she LOLs at horse-lovers on the information superpaddock.

Blow your mind (and your browser) as Chloe Lake shares some examples of Net Art. Bring a beret, daddy-o...

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.

Chloe Lake looks at the RIAA's, um, illustrious lawsuit history, and questions whether their methods are all that accurate...

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!

Chloe Lake brings you news of tech, gaming, and why Boston hates geeks - *especially* ones with circuitry-decorated hoodies & a penchant for Play-Doh...

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)

How does the hype of wardriving live up to the reality? Chloe Lake roadtests this wiley wireless gadgetwy in the streets of Melbourne...

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.

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.

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.

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).

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).

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.

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!

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?

Thats right dump it all over me...

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!

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!

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)!!

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...

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!

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...

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 check Sydney Harbour - it's bodgy-lookin!

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!

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!!!

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!!

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!

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...

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 :)

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!

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!!!