Archive for May, 2012

In 1961 – First NASA astronaut Alan Shepard piloted the Freedom 7 Mercury capsule on its 15-minute 28-second suborbital flight.

In 1992 – Id Software released Wolfenstein 3-D. It wasn’t the original first person shooter, but it launched the form into widespread popularity.

In 1999 – Microsoft shipped Windows 98 SE to manufacturers. The new version included Internet Connection Sharing, Internet Explorer 5, Windows NetMeeting 3.

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

Samsung announces 500,000 new things and the Galaxy S III, Facebook cheaps out on stock, judge rules IP address not a person, and more.

Guest: Lindsey Turrentine

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Running time: 46:36

In 1995 – German electronics company Escom AG bought the rights to the name, patents and intellectual property of Commodore Electronics Ltd. for $10 million. Commodore had gone bankrupt the year before.

In 2000 – The “I Love You” virus spread to 55 million computers around the world, hijacking hard drives and deleting, renaming, or damaging files. The damage reached billions of dollars.

In 2004 – Apple announced that Steve Jobs would kick off that year’s Worldwide Developers Conference by talking about Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.

We ask author Saladin Ahmed more viewer questions. Plus he describes his new book and how he became a DM for Joe Abercrombie!

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Chad Johnson

New Xbox with 2-year contract costs more! Amazon making sitcoms, Why won’t Facebook take advertisers money, and more.

Guest: Jeff Bakalar

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Running time: 42:37

Snoop Dogg runs the Internet, The Avengers, How to prevent pre-hype from ruining movies, Hawaiian movies, ordering food inside World of Warcraft, what makes money valuable.

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Hosts: Brian Brushwood and Tom Merritt

Got cable watch HULU, Discovery wants Rev3? Apple to stream movies, and more.

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Running time: 49:47

In 1978 – Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) sent the first unsolicited mass commercial email to 600 west coast ARPANET users. The message informed users of DEC’s new computer and operating system with ARPANET support, the DECSYSTEM-2020 and TOPS-20.

In 1997 – In New York City, Gary Kasparov began his re-match match against IBM’s Deep Blue computer. He had won the previous match in February 1996 4-2.

In 2000 – A “geocache” was hidden outside Beaver Creek, Oregon, kicking off the first “Great American GPS Stash Hunt” and the hobby now called geocaching.

Bill Harris former CEO of CEO of PayPal and CEO of Intuit, and not the CEO of personalcapital.com, is this weeks guest.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Tom Merritt

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Running time: 44:26

Good news, everyone! The Sword and Laser Wiki is live!

As with most wikis, this is open for anyone to edit, and a lot of work has already been done on the book list and glossary page, but chime in if there’s anything else you’d like to add!

Also, did you see the amazing art Scott Johnson made for us for Nerdtacular ’12? He’s the best, as we’ll be there recording a live audio show!