We talk about the state of California, why we move places, and the state of journalism. Also we talk about Space 2099.
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In 1895 – The Lumiere brothers showed their first film to an audience. It was a romantic comedy about a crowd of mostly women leaving a building.
In 1960 – Arthur Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes were granted the first patent for a laser (U.S. No. 2,929,922) under the title “Masers and Maser Communications System.”
In 1981 – RCA first SelectaVision VideoDisc the SFT100W went on sale. The machine used Capacitance Electronic Discs to fit a couple hours of video programming on a 12-inch vinyl disc that sold for around $15.
In 1993 – The Intel Corporation shipped the first Pentium chips featuring 60 and 66 MHz CPUs.
Hosts: Leo Laporte and Tom Merritt
Leah Busque is the founder and chief product officer of TaskRabbit.com, an online marketplace where you can outsource small jobs and Tasks to others in your own community.
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Running time: 52:43
Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell
Windows 8 coming this autumn? Can you bake with the iPad? Why you wish you were British, and more.
Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ
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Running time: 45:04
In 1965 – NASA launched Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes. Ranger 9 slammed into the Moon sending back high-resolution pictures of the Lunar surface before impact.
1999 – Dr. Bertrand Piccard, a Swiss psychiatrist, and Briton Brian Jones landed their Breitling Orbiter 3 just after 8 A.M. local time 300 miles southwest of Cairo, Egypt. They became the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a hot air balloon.
In 2006 – Jack Dorsey sent the first Twitter post which read “just setting up my twttr”. Twttr was the original spelling of the site which was used internally at Odeo.com for the first 4 months.
Hosts: Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson
Kickstart my comic heart and speak my version of English while you do it.
Guests: Stephen Schleicher and George Corley
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Running time: 51:11
Hosts: Brian Brushwood and Tom Merritt
Neilsen ratings including online, Apple TV teardown, new Dr. Horrible, Prometheus trailer, and more.
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Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell
Apple giving out cash, a hotspot with free data, OMGPOP unseats Zynga, and more.
Guests: Ken Denmead and Erica Ogg
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Running time: 51:27
We’re all giddy about our new video show at Geek and Sundry, but we promise there’s more to the episode than just that. Though if you have questions about what the video show means, hopefully loads of them are answered right off the top of the show. We also dig into Lies of Locke Lamora (though we don’t wrap it up quite yet) and help save SciFi. Literally.
WHAT ARE WE DRINKING?
Tom: 2008 Ravenswood Cabernet Sauvignon Vintners Blend
Veronica: 2005 Phenom Merlot
QUICK BURNS
That online book club you like is adding a YouTube show to it’s lineup
Sword & Laser coming to video!
The Drowned Cities by Paolo Bacigalupi has a free Kindle preview up
Have you seen this Direwolf? Arya Stark’s Lost Dog Poster
Singularity & Co. – Save the SciFI!
BARE YOUR SWORD
“The Magicians” discussion leader?
Yes we know what the next book will be – and yes we know it’s not a laser, but the book after that will be and we need your help picking it!
If made into a movie, who would you cast?
TV, MOVIES AND VIDEO GAMES
Finally a real Prometheus trailer and not just a teaser!
BOOK CHECK-IN
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1) by Scott Lynch
SF Signal is doing Lies of Locke Lamora too!
The Lies of Locke Lamora > A Protagonist in Need of a Want?
The Lies of Locke Lamora > Why isn’t there a map?
I had the honor of getting to see Tom and Veronica at the WonderCon signing this Saturday. Tom gave me a shirt and I thought it was just an XL when he gave it to me, but was elated to see it was an XXXL when I checked it later. I’m so used to free giveaways being so small on me and most people overlook us big boys. I’m a big fan of all that you and I can’t thank you enough.
Literally a Big Fan,
Mike P.
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Tom and Veronica,
I’m very excited about your video podcast, and all teh geek and sundry goodness coming. But I have one concern: Is there a ‘what we’re drinking’ section? If there is no drinking to begin the show, it can’t really be an S&L podcast, can it?
Keep up the good work.
JOE
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ADDENDUMS
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In 1800 – Alessandro Volta dated a letter announcing his invention of the voltaic pile to Sir Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society, London. We’ve been dealing with battery life ever since.
In 1886 – The first alternating current power plant in the United States began providing power to Main Street in Great Barrington, Mass.
1916 – The Annalen der Physik received a paper titled ‘Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie’ by Albert Einstein. “The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity” changed physics and technology dramatically.