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John Dvorak has a terrific Costco wine tip – a $6.99 Cabernet Sauvignon called Method that is produced from a mix of California appellations. He was surprised how good it was – it wasn’t jacked up with a bunch of chemicals and had a nice finish. Adam thinks this is so good, he’s stocking up

While discussing the deep corruption in Minnesota, Adam recommended this new mini-series on Netflix called Death By Lightning. Gilded Age Corruption is the background in this show about James Garfield and his assassin Charles Guiteau. Adam Curry: It’s like three or four episodes about James Garfield, who was elected president almost kind of as a

John Dvorak has a sweet tip: Manuka Honey. It comes from New Zealand and has an almost magical ability to heal wounds due to its antibacterial ingredients. John’s partner, Mimi Dvorak, has used it to treat their injured pup. Healed it up real good! The one we have linked here is imported from New Zealand

John Dvorak is marveling over the 22TB Seagate External Hard Drive. It’s a regular 3.5″ hard drive in an external drive with a USB 3.0 connector. Dvorak thinks it’s a great deal at $299. Get the 22TB Seagate External Hard Drive on Amazon. [No Agenda #1832]

OnlineNewspapers.com is extremely usefull to finding all available online newspapers. Hundreds of online newspapers from around the world are linked and indexed. John Dvorak is scratching his head trying to figure out how OnlineNewspapers.com makes any money, but finds it an outstanding resource. Some of these online newspapers are behind a paywall, but many are

Show producer Sir Jacobus Boersma had his new book, Zero Knowledge Wisdom mentioned during the No Agenda Show’s donation segment. Zero Knowledge Wisdom is like the modern day book of Proverbs. — Adam Curry, Entrepreneur & Inventor of Podcasting A must buy! — John C. Dvorak, Author & Technology Journalist Zero Knowledge Wisdom is not

** UPDATE** Try https://annas-archive.se to view the site. Apparently, this site has to change its TLD (top-level domain) to remain online. While discussing new podcast apps, Anna’s Archive was brought up because it’s attempting to ‘back up’ Spotify and other multimedia on the Internet. Anna’s Archive has books, publications, and torrents that purportedly archive most

During the No Agenda Christmas Special, Adam mentioned that this clip portrays how cable networks deploy scare tactics for ratings. In this scene from Scrooged, Bill Murray is a network executive who presents his idea of the appropriate promo clip to show on it’s network ‘Scrooge’ Christmas special.

Everyone loves a good Costco wine recommendation (Costco wine tips are the genesis of John Dvorak’s tip giving segments). This is a good one for only $6.99 a Sonoma County Cabernet Sauvignon. Make sure to get the Sonoma County version with the maroon label, not the Napa County one with the Blue label. John Dvorak:

John Dvorak thinks most grappa is pretty bad, but he reports he’s found a couple of good brands that are actually good and will make a grappa drinker out of you! It takes super skill to make it–Jacopo Poli. This guy’s grappa is always getting 98 or 100 points from all the tasters. Killer grappa!