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Hosts: Tom Merritt and Brian Dunaway

We’ll be able to program matter to be whatever we want, too bad nobody will know how it works.

Guests: Jonathan Strickland and Andrew Mayne

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Running time: 46:23

Hosts: Brian Brushwood and Tom Merritt

Aereo isn’t stopped, Dish Network adds ‘Auto Hop’, ‘Game Of Thrones’ piracy, and more.

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Running time: 1:03:38

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, and Chad Johnson

Yahoo’s latest CEO, New Apple MacBook and Windows 8 rumors, Plus a new solution to piracy that breaks BitTorrent, and more.

Guest: Brian Brushwood

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Running time: 49:10

It’s our 100th episode and we’re having a party.  But some of you are not having a party with our book pick. Well, you can just Farcast out of here! Kidding! It’s OK if you Lem it. Borges tells you why.

WHAT ARE WE DRINKING?

Tom: Maker’s Mark

Veronica: Cupcake Vineyards Red Velvet 

100 Episodes! Here’s what we used to sound like.

QUICK BURNS

Finally, Harry Potter Is Touching Down on Amazon’s Kindle 

Brush up on your Game of Thrones history with these animated shorts 

Fantasy Novels That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity 

Jack Williamson on what the future meant in the era of scientifiction 

A New Translation of The One Russian Science Fiction Novel You Absolutely Must Read

Parsec Awards 

CALENDAR

BARE YOUR SWORD

Penny Arcade on China Mieville 

How do you take your audiobooks? 

TV, MOVIES AND VIDEO GAMES

Fox, Ridley Scott nab film rights to self-published sci-fi series 

BOOK CHECK-IN

Hyperion by Dan Simmons 

Where do we stand on the June book?

Hyperion… LEMMED! 

Other Dan Simmons work 

2013 Hyperion Movie 

EMAIL

Hey Tom & Veronica!

I just found out about you guys, and Geek & Sundry, in general. I’m super stoked: to hear Gaimen and Dick being thrown out there brings warm fuzzies to my book-lovin’ heart. I enjoy what (be it your personality and literary smarts) and who (the authors!) your bring to the table. Can’t wait for the next installment.

As for a dragon name, how about “Gelf”? 

A gelf can be a elven creature (sword); a genetically enhanced life form (laser); or can be anything you want it to be (in our line of business, imagination is everything). See Urban Dictionary for more details. A-a-a-nd, for bonus points, it was a Gelfling that merged the Skexis and urRu into one awesome whole- just like you guys have have brought the sword and laser communities together and the yet-to-be-named dragon seems to be half traditional dragon and half… MechaGodzilla. =) 

Anyway, you rock.

Sincerely,

Aaron

ADDENDUMS

NAME! THAT! DRAGON! 

Secret Identity 

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In 1905 – 110 acres of land in southern Nevada are auctioned off, founding a new city. They would become downtown Las Vegas which would grow to become the host for major tech events like Comdex, CES and more.

In 1987 – The Soviet Union launched the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform from Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 250 in Kazakhstan. It failed to reach orbit. Polyus was designed to destroy SDI satellites with a megawatt carbon-dioxide laser.

In 2004 – Using a computer with a 2.4-GHz Pentium 4 processor, Josh Findley discovered the 41st Mersenne prime, 224,036,583 – 1. Mersenne primes have a close connection to perfect numbers, which are equal to the sum of their proper divisors.

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In 1973 – The United States launched Skylab, the country’s first space station as part of the Apollo space program.

In 1984 – According to his Facebook profile Mark Zuckerberg was born in Dobbs Ferry, New York. He would grow up to found Facebook.

In 1992 – Texas Instruments decided to take on the dominance of Intel, announcing its own 486 microprocessor chip. Cyrix corp. designed the chip for TI, but it proved unsuccessful in weakening Intel’s dominance.

In 1884 – A group of people interested in the new field of electricity met in New York to start the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.

In 1939 – Franklin Doolittle put experimental station W1XPW on the air, making it the first commercial FM radio station in the United States. The station later became WDRC-FM in Bloomfield, Connecticut.

In 1958 – The trademark Velcro was registered, protecting the name of the multi-purpose material that manages cables everywhere.

Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, and Chad Johnson

Apple ditching Google Maps, Spider-Man renounces US citizenship, Facebook wants to charge you to post, and more.

Guest: Shannon Morse

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Running time: 44:23

In 1936 – University of Washington education professor August Dvorak received a patent for his new more efficient keyboard layout. While widely recognised as superior to the QWERTY layout, the Dvorak keyboard is not widely used.

In 1939 – The first appropriation was made to begin construction of the Harvard Mark I. When completed in 1944 the Mark I became the first successful fully automatic computing machine.

In 1941 – German engineer Konrad Zuse unveiled the Z3, the first program-controlled electromechanical digital computer. It succeeded the Z1 which was the first binary digital computer.