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I am serious. Flight Operation manager Fritz Gunther gives us a crash course in how the flight controls for a Zeppelin NT work. Awesome stuff!

Long show for a long book! Get the scoop on Anathem by Neal Stephenson, but *only* if you’ve read it already.

Get the episode at Sword and Laser.com

Long show tonight, so I’ll keep the blog post short! In case you haven’t finished the book yet, there are SPOILERS in this podcast for Neal Stephenson’s Anathem, so beware! Don’t forget to take a look at the ever-growing Wikia page for Anathem.

We also want to congratulate Michael M., who won the last contest (and wins a Logitech headset!). Here is his winning closing sentence:

“With palpable relief Schuman slumped over the rail waiting for the pool of magma to close over the briefcase and reflected to himself that he still hadn’t had a cup of coffee.”

That’s a book I’d like to read! We also want to remind you of our special offer from Audible for the first story in the original audiobook, METAtropolis!

We’ll be going back to a regular weekly or bi-weekly format now, so look for Tom’s pick for the next book soon!

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Got to ride in a frickin’ Zeppelin today. It was marvelous.

Tom and Roger try not to talk about politics and fail. But they do talk about pirates. So they have that going for them.

Listen to the show at this link: http://www.archive.org/download/RogerChangandTomMerrittEastMeetsWest138/eastmeetswest138.mp3

Very excited to have Chris DiBona, open source manager from Google on to talk about the Android project.

Between a sick dog, family visits, crazy work schedules, adn more, we may be skipping the episode this week. Assume we wont ave one and maybe we’ll surprise you later on. We should be back next week though!