Tech News Today 697: A LIttle Palm in All of Us

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

Google taking on Spotify? LG buys WebOS from HP, Samsung announces huge phone, and more.

Guest: Ron Richards

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Running time:: 0:49:13

February Book Club: Bridge of Birds Wrap-Up & Your Feedback!

It’s time to find out what everyone thought of Number Ten Ox, and check in on Goodreads for suggestions on good old-fashioned popcorn sci-fi and amateur cartography for our favorite fantasy realms. Enjoy!

More on our February pick, Bridge of Birds:
On GoodReads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15…
Hughart Fan Site: http://www.barryhughart.org/books.htm

Discussion Links:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1…
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1…
http://afantasyreader.blogspot.com/20…

“Magical Realism in BoB” by Timm:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDVIjM…

Tech News Today 696: Vita Phone on Vodaphone?

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

What’s the Chromebook Pixel for? HP’s crappy earnings are good news, North Korea allows mobile data, and more.

Guest: Darren Kitchen

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Running time:: 0:45:33

Tech News Today 696: Vita Phone on Vodafone?

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

What’s the Chromebook Pixel for? HP’s crappy earnings are good news, North Korea allows mobile data, and more.

Guest: Darren Kitchen

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Running time:: 0:45:33

Tech News Today 695: Chrome Wasn’t Built in a Day

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

What we really think of the PS4, Apple watch facts, touchscreen ChromeBooks, and more.

Guest: Russ Pitts

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Running time:: 0:45:14

FSL Tonight Offseason Report

Petey Rave files his first offseason report and takes a look at some of the free agents teams in the FSL might be looking at to shore up needs on their rosters.

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Tech News Today 694: Java: Mug It, Don’t Plug It

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

Yahoo gets a new look, Google shows off Project Glass, Spotify wants to pay labels less, and more.

Guest: Peter Rojas

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Running time:: 0:47:01

S&L Podcast – #121 – A bird too far

It’s time for a substantive down-to-Earth deep discussion of Bridge of Birds. And Veronica now feels better about pronouncing things.

WHAT ARE WE DRINKING?
Tom: Jameson’s
Veronica: Cono Sur Cabernet Sauvignon

QUICK BURNS
Stephen Donaldson delivers last-ever THOMAS COVENANT novel
An incredibly thorough analysis of how frequently words and characters appear in J.R.R. Tolkien’s books
Make your own pulp magazine covers
Love Of Classics Inspires Raygun Chronicles Kickstarter Anthology Project
THE CITY AND THE CITY on stage in Chicago

CALENDAR

BARE YOUR SWORD
Does science fiction lack good criticism?

TV, MOVIES AND VIDEO GAMES
George R.R. Martin expands on HBO deal
Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle is coming to Syfy

BOOK CHECK-IN
Pretty Ping Rape? (Spoilers)
A Slight Flaw in His Character… 

EMAIL

Gaiman narrates the audio book Odd and the Frost Giants. Its a great audiobook. Andrew R.

FYI. Not sure if this will be “fresh” enough to cover on the S&L audio show next week… Eric W (Goodreads follow-up)

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Tech News Today 693: Hack It Your Way

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

HTC’s One last chance, Google to get into retail, Burger King and Jeep hacked, and more.

Hosts: Lamarr Wilson

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Running time:: 0:49:10

Tech News Today 692: Linux Gets Steamy

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

Skype launches video messaging, Valve launches Steam for Linux, Nintendo launches disaster, and more.

Hosts: Shannon Morse

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Running time:: 0:44:56