John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin continue to wait for the release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. In the meantime, topics include Facebook's use of MySQL, some of the technology behind Google+, the 5by5 ShowBot, possibly new Mac hardware (featuring the fabled xMac), and whether or not Dan and John are cool.

Links for this episode:

• Facebook trapped in MySQL ‘fate worse than death’ - Cloud Computing News
• "I'm a technical lead on the Google+ team. Ask me anything."
• Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast? - Caffeinated Bitstream
• The story of Showbot - Jeremy Mack
• VoltDB
• Night of the living xMac - Ars Technica

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