S&L Podcast – #58 – Blindsight Kick-off

Shows / April 13th, 2011

We’re kicking off our brand new book selection, Blindsight, by Peter Watts! We don’t have too many Quick Burns today… mostly just GoT news. Would you expect anything less?

QUICK BURNS

OMG GAME OF THRONES STARTS APRIL 17
Map of the free cities.

CALENDAR
4/12/2011 After the Golden Age by Carrie Vaughan

4/12/2011 “All the Lives He Led, Frederik Pohl (Tor)

4/19/2011 “The River of Shadows by Robert V.S. Redick

4/21/2011 “The Dragon’s Path by Daniel Abraham

4/26/2011 “Will Super Villains Be On the Final? Naomi Novik (Del Rey)

4/28/2011 “Titus Awakes by Mervyn Peake and Maeve Gilmore

5/3/2011 “The Inheritance by Robin Hobb

BARE YOUR SWORD

The Kingkiller Chronicles > Penny Arcade Comic

Novels About People Playing Videogames

Geek Smackdown: George R.R. Martin disses on Lost

sword and laser question ( sales credit)

BOOK KICK-OFF
Blindsight by Peter Watts

From Wikipedia: Blindsight is a hard science fiction novel by Peter Watts, published by Tor Books in 2006. On 29 March 2007, it was nominated for the Hugo Award in the Best Novel category.[1] Watts has also released the novel online under the by-nc-sa Creative Commons license.[2] The novel deals with a crew of astronauts investigating an extraterrestrial entity and explores the nature of identity and consciousness. The title refers to blindsight, a neurological condition with implications for philosophy of mind.

The Chinese Room scenario features prominently in the book.

EMAILS
Thanks to Harold for making us an Infostripe!

Tech News Today 219: The Flip Has Flopped

Shows / April 12th, 2011

BitTorrent breaks TOR security, Cisco drops Flip, say hello to IE10, dial a phone with your mind, and more.

Guest: Darren Kitchen

Download or subscribe to this show at http://twit.tv/tnt.

We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes at wiki.twit.tv.

Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show.

Video URL: 
http://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp4/twit.cachefly.net/video/tnt/tnt0219/tnt0219_h264b_864x480_500.mp4

Video URL (low quality): 
http://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp4/twit.cachefly.net/video/tnt/tnt0219/tnt0219_h264b_640x368_256.mp4

Running time: 

50:57

Tech News Today 218: Scan My Zebra

Shows / April 11th, 2011

GeoHotz settles but Anonymous doesn’t, Zebras become scannable, Navy blows things up with lasers, and more.

Guest: Tim Stevens

Download or subscribe to this show at http://twit.tv/tnt.

We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes at wiki.twit.tv.

Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show.

Video URL: 
http://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp4/twit.cachefly.net/video/tnt/tnt0218/tnt0218_h264b_864x480_500.mp4

Video URL (low quality): 
http://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp4/twit.cachefly.net/video/tnt/tnt0218/tnt0218_h264b_640x368_256.mp4

Running time: 

46:55