Tech News Today 96: The Spy Who Friended Me

Shows / October 15th, 2010

Car-eating rabbits, Yahoo-eating AOL, spies using Facebook for spying, and more.

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36:33

Tech News Today 95: It’s Cheaper To Fight The Monster

Shows / October 14th, 2010

Bing and Facebook partner up, our crappy electric grid is safe, a new plan for serialized novels, and more.

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35:14

You know, for kids! – The S&L Podcast #44

Shows / October 13th, 2010

We check in on our progress in The Once and Future King and The Princess Bride as well as deliver some exciting news on new releases and books being made into movies. (psst. One is a P. K. Dick book, so Tom’s excited).

QUICK BURNS   
   
The ultimate guide to October’s science fiction awesomeness!
   
Highly recommended: New Ted Chiang novella “The Lifecycle of Software Objects”   
   
The Making Of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
   
Pratchett’s I Shall Wear Midnight, sentimental and fun book about a witch among enemies   
   
BARE YOUR SWORD – feedback from the audience   
   
Am I the only one who thinks this book is overrated?   
   
Anachronisms
   
How much Arthurian legend have you read before?   
     
   
Emails:
 
Hi Tom
Thought you might get excited about this.
 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/oct/07/ridley-scott-sci-fi-philip-k-dick-bbc-drama
 
Appols if you habe rec’d it a hundred times. If it doesn’t come out in the US I will DVD it for you.
 
Chris

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Where can I get a t-shirt featuring your AWESOME logo?

Thanks in advance for your reply!

Peace,
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Tech News Today 94: Apple Gives Denmark A Bum Deal

Shows / October 13th, 2010

Sony Internet TV launches, Kindle starts a new book format, Oracle is a troublemaker, and more.

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36:42

FourCast 51: Planet Of The 1990s Disease

Shows / October 13th, 2010

Hosts: Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson

Cheap tech saves us all while our lungs are infected by solar cells.

Guests: Annalee Newitz editor-in-chief of io9.com, and Dan Patterson digital platform manager at abcnewsradio.com

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Tech News Today 93: I’d Vomit For That

Shows / October 12th, 2010

Commercial space flight gets closer, what Free Public WiFi means, is GM lying about the Volt, and more.

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45:01

East Meets West 227 – Pod people

Shows / October 10th, 2010

Roger and Tom talk about how schools work from classrooms, to lunch, to well no they didn’t talk about learning. They also chat about politics a little right at the end. Including the Iowa Electronic Markets.

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