Last year, Disney bought the online virtual polar landscape that is Club Penguin, a virtual world where kids romp and play as penguins do.

This year, they've introduced a plush toy line that extends the virtual polar landscape into the thawed real world with the Club Penguin Series One figures, produced by Jakks Pacific and available at www.ClubPenguin.com/clubpenguinshop.  read more »

This week, we've been hearing about all the houses in the wake of the wildfires outside of Los Angeles. It's received special attention due to the celebrity homes in the area, and since our family has never been the star-struck type, we were a bit annoyed that somehow celebrity homes are more important that regular people's homes.  read more »

Dale is joined this week by a substitute host: Ringmaster Greg from Dancing with Elephants.  read more »

This looks really great, except that those with Mac OS X's strict parental controls can't allow this site without locking out the adult content--parents please note.  read more »

We haven't mentioned this on the podcast itself yet, but we're excited to announce that we are the winners of the Podcast Peer Award for Best Tech Podcast. Given the quantity and quality of tech podcasts out there, this is a real honor for us. Podcast Peer Awards are nominated and chosen by fellow podcasters, those who know the industry and what it takes to make a good podcast.  read more »

Both Coke and Pepsi are running specials right now (and have been for a while) that encourage you to collect points with which you can purchase, among other things, free mp3's. But if you, like me, enjoy both Diet Coke and Pepsi One, you may be wondering, "Which is the better deal?"  read more »

Let's hope this has some kind of privacy built in, or it won't be so great for kids. We'll have to wait and see.  read more »

Sounds like a great place for fans to flex their creative muscles.  read more »

I get to play as the Specter!  read more »

In the latest This Week in Tech, Leo Laporte talked about how he got ripped off on ebay. He bought a camera, paid with paypal, and never got the camera, but since paypal can only insure up to $200, and since he paid $2100, he was just out the $1900 with little recourse. Here's how to keep the same from happening to you:  read more »