Wondercon is in Anaheim this year, and I’m extremely pleased to be invited on Felicia Day’s panel about her new web series channel Geek and Sundry
The panel is on March 17th from 2-3pm in room 204. Ms. Day will be announcing her slate of series for the year. My co-host and pal Veronica Belmont will be there along with geek hero Wil Wheaton.
Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell
Sparrow alights on iOS, Nokia working on a tablet, Kevin Rose merges his DNA with Larry Page, or maybe something less dramatic, and more.
Guests: Wil Harris
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Running time: 46:45
Someday the population will stabilise or decline. So what happens then?
In 1926 – Robert Goddard conducted his first successful launch of a liquid-fueled rocket in Auburn, Massachusetts.
In 1999 Sony released Everquest the Massively multiplayer 3D world where you could play as a wizard, rogue or knight. It followed two years after Ultima Online would be followed several years later by World of Warcraft.
In 1999 – Mac OS X Server 1.0, the highly-anticpated precursor of OS X desktop version (code name Hera) was released.
Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell
Britannica quietly wins the digital transition, AT&T tries to silence small claims winner, why Google has become too ‘corporate’, and more.
Guests: Randall Bennett
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Running time: 45:54
Hosts: Tom Merritt, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell
New ARM design has years of battery life, is the Apple TV set in production? Most backwards digital upgrade scheme ever, and more.
Guests: Loyd Case
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Running time: 39:59
In 1813 – John Snow was born to a labourer’s family in York. He would go on to develop a ‘germ theory’ that helped combat cholera, and made great advances in anesthesiology.
In 1959 – The first atomic reactor built in the US for medical research, achieved criticality at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y.
In 1985 – Symbolics, a Massachusetts computer company, registered the Internet’s first domain name, symbolics.com. The domain is now owned by an investment company who uses it as a marketing device. The remains of the original Symbolics company survives in altered form at symbolics-dks.com.
Hosts: Brian Brushwood and Tom Merritt
Kony2012 gets big, Hulu gets original, Barry Diller gets bold, and more.
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Running time: 1:01:04
Matthew Flannery co-founder of Kiva.org an organization that allows people to lend money via the Internet to microfinance institutions in developing countries around the world.
Hosts: Leo Laporte and Tom Merritt
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Running time: 46:24
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