It is Friday. You have had a week. One of those of weeks that hits you between the eyes like a bad Ash Wednesday joke, drives an 18-wheeler through your carpal tunnels into the next dimension, finds you left out of the silliest "women drivers" image-enhanced forward everyone else in the cube farm and your extended family has received, you found out how many calories are in french fries, and the FedEx guy left your triple-180gm virgin vinyl edition of J. Bieber's "Under the Mistletoe" on your front porch in the freezing rain. What do you do? RELAX... with the Vergecast. Strap on a cold one and leave the italics to the dudes who are both on the verge and behind the microphones at the same time.

Song: Standby Ghost - Fall Into the Light

• 03:19 - Galaxy Nexus now on sale from Verizon for $299.99 with next day shipping
• 07:50 - Sony Ericsson releases Android 4.0 preview ROMs for Xperia Ray, Arc S, and Neo V
• 08:30 - Leaked Samsung ROM has TouchWiz on top of Ice Cream Sandwich
• 16:30 - The fall of Microsoft's Andy Lees: inside the Windows Phone power shift
• 33:49 - YouTube, Verizon FiOS TV, and more now available for Xbox Live
• 42:47 - Verizon Droid Xyboard 8.2 and 10.1 review
• 44:48 - Motorola Xoom 2 review
• 48:33 - Megaupload's promotional music video unfairly pulled by UMG, says founder
• 54:55 - Universal has 'Tech News Today' episode yanked from YouTube for reporting on MegaUpload promo video
• 01:15:53 - HP's proposed brand redesign project detailed in pictures and video