Story 2: Yahoo Maps gets drag-and-drop re-routing and a few new upgrades to local listings.

Story 3: The upgrade to the PlayStation 3 will make your PS3 DivX certified.

Story 4: Google and the One Laptop Per Child program launched Our Stories for children around the world to tell their tales.

Story 5: Google now can give you flight status directly from the main search bar.

Story 2: CBS Interactive fires the production staff at Startrek.com, meaning the site may have had its Final Frontier.

Story 3: Pownce goes mobile.

Story 4: Best Buy has buy-one-get-one-free promos for BluRay and HD-DVD titles.

Story 2: Major League Baseball gets over 2 million downloads of the Mitchell Report. Download for yourself here.

Story 3: The BBC gets a new makeover with a new home page, currently in beta. Check it out here.

Story 4: Nintendo and GameStop promise Wiis by January.

Story 5: Yahoo launches a Political Dashboard for the 2008 elections.

Story 2: Zoho releases a new version of Zoho Show. For details, click here.

Story 3: the IBM pushes hard to innovate airport kiosk systems with the company’s announcement of support for Aloha Airlines.

Story 4: UPS eliminates left hand turns for the company’s drivers, saving time and money, according to the New York Times.

Story 5: The new Jackass movie will launch free online on December 19. For some jackass-style kung fu, visit Urban Beat Down to watch Natali kick some trash.

Story 2: NBC Universal strikes a deal with SanDisk to create a one-off version of the Apple TV.

Story 3: the RIAA believes that making digital copies of your CDs is stealing. So be careful!

Story 4: Natali heads to the Bebo breakfast to learn about the company’s new open platform. For Natali's PC Magazine coverage, click here.

Story 2: YouTube expands its Partner Program, although my research shows that this may not be a very big cash cow.

Story 3: Nasa did not launch the Atlantis but the shuttle’s Web site is still an interesting site to visit.

Story 4: Apple will now let you buy 5 iPhones at a time.

Story 5: Natali has a rocking Monday night at the Computer History museum, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Commodore 64. Read the PC Magazine coverage here.

Story 2: Facebook comes out with a mea culpa for Beacon.

Story 3: Continental Airlines is testing a pilot program where you can carry your boarding pass as an image on your mobile phone. Read more about it here.

Story 4: An Italian Web site called Santi Protettori is under fire for letting users download Catholic images to their mobile phones, according to Reuters.

Story 2: Hulu now has some HD content based on the newest version of Adobe Flash.

Story 3: Nasa wants you to follow this week’s Atlantis launch on its shuttle Web site.

Story 4: ESPN gets ready to launch ScoreCenter for scores from every professional stadium in the world.

Story 5: Flickr now lets you edit your photos directly on the site, courtesy of Picnik.

Story 2: Ms. Spears is the top searched entity on Yahoo. Read the full ranking for 2007’s top searches here.

Story 3: AT&T announces a decision to get out of the pay phone business.

Story 4: Wikipedia will start hiring illustrators for select articles, according to The New York Times.

Story 5: A TeXtra alumni launches Urban Beat Down in order to help you learn Kung Fu.

Story 2: The Nokia is testinga mobile phone payment system in London called Near Field Communication. Read details here.

Story 3: Lots of noise out of Google! The new Google Mobile Blog announces My Location. Gmail gets group chat and cooler emoticons.

Story 4: Yahoo will start selling advertising in PDF documents in conjuction with Adobe. Yahoo also upgraded Yahoo Widgets to accomadte Flash.

Update: The sunglasses we discussed on Tuesday’s show are the Oakley Split Thump, not the Thump 2. The Thump 2 is actually no longer available. Also, click here to learn more about the Nokia N 810.

Story 2: TAG Heuer contracted ModeLabs to make high-end cell phones. Hopefully they’ll look like Inspector Gadget phones!

Story 3: Verizon Wireless decides to open up to any phone or applications.

Story 4: Samsung is working on RFID chip readers in your mobile phone, according to IDG. Compare this to the HP Memory Spot. This is a better technology but I fear we’ll never see it. Oh well.

Story 2: Facebook and ABC partner up to cover the 2008 elections and debates.

Story 3: Google Checkout offers some cool perks for shopping with them online this season.

Story 4: Amazon launches Subscribe and Save, which is like an online version of Costco without a membership fee.

Gadgets! Natali and Lukasz talk about the Oakley Thump 2 and the Nokia N810. For Natali’s ELLE Girl Gadget Guide, click here.

Story 2: The PayPal launches PayPal Secure Card, which lets you use PayPal to shop online even when a vendor doesn’t accept PayPal.

Story 3: Pioneer Electronics is privately testing SyncTV, a service that would let users pay for TV that they want a la carte.

Story 4: Newsfactor reports that some electronics that Americans think they are recycling ends up overseas in toxic environments.

Happy Thanksgiving! Want more TeXtra Outtakes? You shall have them this Thursday! Meanwhile, document your Thanksgiving recipes at Open Source Food, and photos on Flickr.

Story 2: The House of Representatives passes the Broadband Census of America Act of 2007.

Story 3: 20th Century Fox plans to release the latest Die Hard movie as a Digital Copy, according to TechCrunch.

Story 4: A California man sues Comcast for not delivering promised download speeds when he is on peer-to-peer sites. Read the lawsuit for yourself here.

Story 2: The Wall Street Journal will soon be free without a subscription , and also get Digg buttons on each story.

Story 3: InfoWorld reports that the European Union now has a plan to level out the digital divide.

Story 4: Try out BoomShuffle . You may never get off of this site! Here is Natali's dope playlist !

Story 5: Click for world hunger while learning vocabulary words at Free Rice . Also, watch this 60 Minutes piece on a product called Plumpynut. It is amazing how far just a $1 serving of peanut butter can go!

Story 2: The FCC orders VoIP providers to liberate phone numbers so that users can switch carriers without switching phone numbers. Find the FCC’s official statement in a Word document, here.

Story 3: Disney wants in on the MVNO market in Japan. The company announced that it would enter the mobile phone service business there starting next year.

Story 4: Sprint and T-Mobile will reportedly start pro-rating early termination fees for mobile plans in the beginning of next year.

Story 5: AppleInsider reports that Apple may release a new line of MacBooks in January.

Story 2: Dell se habla Español with its new Spanish-speaking customer service lines.

Story 3: An English grammar school has put RFID chips on students for a trial run. Not cool!

Story 4: Opera Mini 4.0 is released and Natali likes it.

Story 5: Major League Babeball seriously upsets a loyal Red Sox fan when they make his legitimately-purchased content unsable.

Story 2: Facebook launches Facebook Ads to let advertisers become a part of your feed if you let them

Story 3: InfoWorld reports that the London Tube may soon get some Underground Undersound tunes.

Story 4: Lenovo and HP release some hefty new desktops.

Story 5: Try out Songza for instant gratification music searching. Use the beta code from this Mashable article .

Story 2: Actress Natalie Portman releases an album exclusively on iTunes in order to raise money for FINCA, an anti-poverty organization.

Story 3: Bebo launches Bebo Nation, which lets you claim some digital property on which to put a billboard. Find Natali’s here.

Story 4: The Federal Trade Commission says that users should be able to opt out of tracking software that allows for targeted ads, but they won’t enforce it, according to Cnet.

Story 5: Yahoo launches a new social network called Kickstart. TechCrunch says it clearly not the place for getting wasted. Yahoo also launches a shared-video watching plugin called Zync. Click here to install.

Story 2: Amazon’s Screening Blog reports on the Blu-Ray Festival and says that Blu-Ray might just be winning the war. Although, it is still neck and neck. Panasonic has a pretty sweet new Blu-Ray player on the market for $499 and Wal-Mart is now selling Toshiba’s HD DVD player for under $200.

Story 3: Microsoft is accepting submissions for the Next-Gen PC Design Competition.

Story 4: The Federal Trade Commission is looking into the legality of user-tracking software that lets advertisers sell targeted ads, according to the New York Times.

Viewer Email: To buy the Dell Natali recommends, click here. To find the hack for your Mac’s Skype video calls, click here.

Story 2: Congress passes a bill to delay Internet connection tax until at least 2014..

Story 3: Skype and Logitech partner up to create a new high-quality video standard for Skype-to-Skype calls.

Story 4: Best Buy wants your home movies. The company offers a new service to host and share videos.

Story 5: Pandora tells the Senate that it will surely close down if royalty rates are not drastically reduced.

Story 2: The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting of Jesus and his apostles, is now available in extremely high quality online.

Story 3: AT&T does its part to help out displaced fire victims by giving them free Wifi access.

Story 4: If you want to get into the Halloween spirit, make your own freaky slideshow with Photobucket and win an HD TiVo! You can also get spooked by watching a full-feature horror flick on Imeem.

Story 2: The US Court of Appeals has made it easier to make "home movies”.

Story 3: AT&T will stream the Vegoose Music Festival live this weekend in the AT&T Blue Room..

Story 4: Mario Sundar from LinkedIn stops in for a chat.

Story 2: TechCrunch reports that Hulu will launch on Monday.

Story 3: The creators of Funny or Die launch Shred or Die for the hard core, according to NewTeeVee.

Story 4: The RIAA shuts down torrenting site OINK after a raid.

Story 5: Gmail finally gets IMAP support.

Story 2: Researchers at IBM are working on a new wireless protocol that is reportedly 100 times faster than Wi-Fi!

Story 3: Time Magazine launches The Page, a one-stop portal for election coverage.

Story 4: Orange Telecom customers can now access Bebo on their mobile phones unlimitedly for £3 per month.

Story 5: MySpace will be developing a casual gaming channel by January, according to TechCrunch.

Story 2: Free at last! Apple listens to the people and adds announces that it will open the iPhone to third-party developers in February. Hallelujah! For an interesting take on this, read Tom Krazit’s post on CNet.

Story 3: Best Buy decides to ditch analog TV sets for good starting in November to get ready for all-digital all the time.

Story 4: The US Senate lobbies for a law that would make mobile phone carriers spell it all out for us, and then some. Do we really need this? Read the bill here and decide for yourself.

Story 2: MySpace adds Skype to its instant message client and inks a deal with Sony BMG to carry videos and songs on artists’ profiles.

Story 3: Google releases Google Docs and Spreadsheets for mobile

Story 4: The UE is investigating the digital divide in Europe. Click here for the report.

Story 4: The trailer for the new Blade Runner is out and you can enter a contest to show your neo-noir spirit!

Story 2: Greenpeace accuses Apple of using toxic chemicals in the iPhone. Click here for the full report.

Story 3: The US House of Representatives have passed a bill requiring emergency VoIP calls to connect directly to 911 instead of being routed through a third-party phone company. Lets hope it passes!

Story 4: Google unveils a new video filtering system for YouTube to prevent video piracy.

Story 2: Amazon launches High-Def 101 as an educational portal for all things HD.

Story 3: Appleinsider writes about a rumor that Apple may have a new Web site listing approved iPhone Web-applications.

Story 4: OnStar lets the police slow down stolen cars by cutting off the accelerator. The program is called Stolen Vehicle Slowdown.

Story 2: EMI uses social networks to promote awareness acquires in Darfur. Go here for the Facebook video or here for the Mattafix home page.

Story 3: AT&T gets its hands on some very important digital spectrum.

Story 4: Google acquires Jaiku for an undisclosed amount, according to TechCrunch. No Twitter or Pownce?

Story 5: eBay launches a social network called eBay Neighborhoods.

Story 2: MSNBC makes a smart move and acquires social news site Newsvine.

Story 3: The UK gets more public Wi-Fi with a deal between British Telecom and FON. Also, McDonald’s restaurants in the UK get free Wi-Fi too. What about the U.S.!? Not that I reall eat McDonald’s but still!

Story 4: An update on Natali’s travel gadgets and trip overseas. See here for Natali’s coverage of the Future of Web Apps conference and here for random travel rants.

Story 2: FacebookNew research suggests that mobile phones do not necessarily cause brain cancer.

Story 3: The FCC gives analog TV owners three years to get a digital TV.

Story 4: Natali heads off on vacation but there will be PLENTY of TeXtra while she’s gone! Here is what to expect!

Story 2: Facebook users debate their rights to show photos of themselves breastfeeding and criticize Islam.

Story 3: AT&T goes orange but keeps the blue logo in an attempt to rebrand themselves for the young folk.

Story 4: MTV’s online traffic spikes with people looking to watch Britney Spears’ unfortunate performance. Meanwhile, MTV looks to build out more channels for video and music delivery online.

Story 2: eBay gets sued by L’Oreal for counterfeit product distribution.

Story 3: The New York Times is reporting that Lulu is suing Hulu.

Story 4: A nice breather from the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray war: HD VMD. New Medium Enterprises has an HD-VMD player coming out for only $150. But will it really compete with HD and Blu-Ray? Ring in here.

Story 2: Your Facebook profile is no longer as private as you think so behave yourself!

Story 3: Google updates the Google Reader and gives you some tips on how to avoid bacn, which is not spam but close.

Story 4: A few wacky ideas for OneWebDay.

Plus: A special guest appearance by the Podfather himself, Adam Curry.