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Tech News Today 679: Rdio Free Europe
Hosts: Tom Merritt, Iyaz Akhtar and Sarah Lane
Office 2013 goes subscription, Acer’s Chromebooks beat their Windows PCs, Rdio launches free music service
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Running time:: 0:50:23
Frame Rate 110: A Good Looking Corpus
Hosts: Brian Brushwood and Tom Merritt
JJ Abrams to direct Star Wars VII, Netflix ends 2012 on a high, Netflix Project Griffin set top box, and more.
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Running time:: 1:07:26
Tech News Today 678: His Zelda Underwear
Hosts: Tom Merritt, Iyaz Akhtar and Sarah Lane
Vine gets porny, Barnes and Noble on the rocks and the next iPad release
Guest: Peter Wells
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Running time:: 0:42:09
S&L January Book Club: Old Man’s War Wrap-Up & Your Feedback!
It’s time to wrap up our January pick, John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War, check in with everyone over on GoodReads, and get momentarily excited for a new excerpt from GRRM…before remembering that its still going to be a long wait for Winds of Winter. Enjoy!
More on our January pick, Old Man’s War:
On GoodReads:http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51964.Old_Man_s_War
From John Scalzi’s Blog: http://whatever.scalzi.com/about/books-by-john-scalzi/
Discussion Links:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1163392-bored-woodless
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1163460-grrm-new-extract-of-the-winds-of-…
http://georgerrmartin.com/if-sample.html
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1160339-what-do-you-guys-think-about-brea…
“A Once Crowded Sky” Review by Aaron:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuSKLG61lbk
S&L January Book Club: Old Man’s War Wrap-Up & Your Feedback!
It’s time to wrap up our January pick, John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War, check in with everyone over on GoodReads, and get momentarily excited for a new excerpt from GRRM…before remembering that its still going to be a long wait for Winds of Winter. Enjoy!
More on our January pick, Old Man’s War:
On GoodReads:http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51964.Old_Man_s_War
From John Scalzi’s Blog: http://whatever.scalzi.com/about/books-by-john-scalzi/
Discussion Links:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1163392-bored-woodless
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1163460-grrm-new-extract-of-the-winds-of-…
http://georgerrmartin.com/if-sample.html
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1160339-what-do-you-guys-think-about-brea…
“A Once Crowded Sky” Review by Aaron:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuSKLG61lbk
Tech News Today 677: Vine Faceblocked
Hosts: Tom Merritt, Iyaz Akhtar and Sarah Lane
Facebook shuts out competitiors, Lenovo wants RIM, Why the Internet is essential.
Guest: Darren Kitchen
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Running time:: 0:45:18
Tech News Today 676: Dell, You Need a Dude
Hosts: Tom Merritt, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell
Why Apple’s record revenue is bad news, Google’s secret wireless project, Twitter’s Instagram for video, and more.
Guest: Danny Sullivan
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Running time:: 0:48:03
Tech News Today 675: More Mobile Butter
Hosts: Tom Merritt, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell
Google turns it around, Nokia’s best camera yet, how Steve Jobs used patents as a weapon, and more.
Guest: Natali Morris
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Running time:: 0:41:37
S&L Podcast – #119 – Pronounce this…
We have a whole lot of award finalists to tell you about and Veronica bravely tries to pronounce their names. We also wonder how much said is too much said.
WHAT ARE WE DRINKING?
Tom: Car Men Air Camenere, Chile
Veronica: Something red
QUICK BURNS
TOC: ‘The Fearsome Journeys: The New Solaris Book of Fantasy’ Edited by Jonathan Strahan
Harper/Voyager UK to Release SF/F Classics with Beautiful Minimalist Covers
Tad Williams completes latest novel
Great science fiction authors tell us which novels they wish they’d written themselves
FINALISTS: 2012 BSFA Award
FINALISTS: The 2012 Kitschies
CALENDAR
BARE YOUR SWORD
Veronica’s Reddit AMA
The battle against ‘sexist’ sci-fi and fantasy book covers
Jim Hines Group Cover Pose
Living in a Fantasy world
TV, MOVIES AND VIDEO GAMES
New GAME OF THRONES video
BOOK CHECK-IN
Use of “said”
ADDENDUMS
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