As everybody braces for Hurricane Sandy this week there’s not a whole lot of other stuff going on…

Over at F1, this past week was the Grand Prix of India – and in the lead up to the race it seems that McLaren is testing parts on Lewis Hamilton’s car – and not telling Lewis what their testing…

In other news, Apple continues to ratchet down on security – it really showed in the lead up to the iPad Mini and iPhone5 releases didn’t it?

And what happens when your piano is on it’s last legs?

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This week, Chili Cookoff Champion Patrica gives her opinions on a few topics…

In Formula 1 this week, the on again, off again, on again Grand Prix of American appears to be definitely be off for 2013, with both Bernie and local officials saying that several construction deadlines won’t be met for the race to happen in 2013 but there’s hope for 2014.

There’s still plenty of gossip regarding who might be moving in 2013 AND 2014, and we talk a little about the Korean Grand Prix…

In other news, Hyundai is bringing Ethernet to its cars.

Florida is looking at a license plate re-design.

When have you purchased a product but don’t own it?

Best Buy tries a tactic that they should have adopted 10 years ago to fight back against Amazon…

And there’s a few places that you can hide your drugs in that NOBODY will believe you when you claim that they’re not yours…

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Patricia had a big week this week – her super secret Twitter account was hacked, and she came to a realization that she is in fact an F1 fan.

But first, a quick follow up on last week’s story about the print version of Entertainment Weekly having a live Twitter feed. Now we know how it was done.

This past week was the Grand Prix of Japan at Suzuka – and once again, the big story really wasn’t the winner.

We not be getting any more new shows this year, but Top Gear will be around for another three years.

Target comes up with a great idea to buy your kids their holiday gifts without them realizing it.

A unique cottage industry is springing up outside some New York schools.

Spirit Airlines just launched a cheeky add campaign targeted right at American Airlines.

Blue honey?

The Iranians are using The Onion as a source.

We just finished up with the Kaldi S04 Single Cup Coffee Brewer by the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. It looks good but didn’t really excite us.

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We actually recorded a show last week – but you’ll never hear it and for that you should be thankful!

We lost the links for this week’s show – but Entertainment Weekly’s published magazine for Oct 5 will have a live Twitter feed in it somehow…

Amazon is launching a new Organic and Green centric site called Vine.com

And there was some pretty big Formula 1 news this week…

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