Still need to post all of our specific rewards, but we’re now officially launching this beast. Head over to http://www.patreon.com/user?u=60677&alert=1 to join the revolution!
Also, if you pause at the right moment, you can catch a perfect, simultaneous blink:
Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready for your freedom? Are you tired of living under the oppression of that snake-like coax cable that insists IT is the true arbiter of what you can watch and when and where you can watch it?
Kill it.
We’ll help.
So many people and things have led up to this moment. The big bang. DNA. Seafaring. Peanut butter. Philo Farnsworth. Walt Disney. Ted Turner. Vint Cerf. Tim Berners-Lee and You.
You hold the power. Previously we’ve framed this movement as something that only rated a cautious approach. Now we’re headed over the top. Join us.
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Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar, and Jason Howell
How much will you pay for LG’s Chrome desktop PC? Bitcoin plummets, tech execs give US President what for, and more.
Guest: Rafe Needleman
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In 1839 – John William Draper took a daguerreotype of the moon, the first lunar photograph.
In 1878 – Joseph Swan demonstrated the electric lamp to the Newcastle Chemical Society in northern England. His bulb would burn for about 40 hours. Edison’s later bulb would burn for closer to 150 hours.
In 1997 – HTML 4.0 was recommended and published by the World Wide Web Consortium, the W3C. It offered the strict, transitional and frameset variations, and deprecated many of Netscape’s visual tags in favor of CSS.
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This afternoon, Scott Johnson and I sat down on a hangout to chat with the chat room, take some questions and even do some live brainstorming about the forthcoming return of Current Geek in 2014. The show will definitely be a weekly gathering of the folks you love talking about the geeky things you care about. Tech, movies, video games, comic books etc, will all be on the docket. Plus we talk about ideas for guests and segments and much much more.
The video is in two parts as we had a little hangout glitch in the middle. Other than that it went off without a hitch. Enjoy!
We had a really good time chatting with Sam Sykes, author of the Aeon’s Gate series. Among other things, we learned what a flying shark is good for, why he left the Horde, what a “stealfie” is, and how Sam keeps his daily threat-making to a minimum. Plus your questions! Enjoy.
And just because….
Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar, and Jason Howell
Facebook launches autoplay video ads, Amazon buying mobile payments company, best apps of 2013, and more.
Guest: Wil Harris
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Running time: 49:56
In 1880 – The Edison Electric Illuminating Company of New York was incorporated to install a central generating station in New York City. New Yorkers know it now as ConEd.
In 1903 – Orville Wright successfully made a flight in a heavier-than-air machine that took off from level ground under its own power and was controlled during flight. It’s generally considered the first airplane flight.
In 1997 – John Barger coined the term ‘weblog’ to describe his list of links on his site, Robot Wisdom. Peter Merholz would later shorten it to just ‘blog’.
In 2012 – The W3C announced it had completed the definition of HTML 5.
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