From Linux to FireWire to online shopping, hosts Stephen Manes and Susan Gregory Thomas "show you how the latest innovations of the electronic age really work--and how they don't." Sometimes cynical, always honest, the half-hour public-TV show has its share of hilarious moments. Manes once blindfolded an animatronic Barney doll and chuckled gleefully as the digital dino cried, "I don't like this game!"

Tony Peltier