We asked author Scott Sigler more questions than could fit in the main episode! Plus he tries to guess the name of the dragon (no spoilers, you guys).
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Why iOS7 could be delayed, Path in spam trouble again, and will Google merge Chrome and Android?
Guest: Veronica Belmont
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Running time:: 0:48:53
In 1884 – Construction began in Chicago on the Home Insurance Building, generally acknowledged as the first steel-frame high-rise skyscraper.
In 1959 – Shortly after construction had begun, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland was officially named in honor of the pioneering rocket scientist.
In 1964 – Thomas Kurtz and John Kemeny of Dartmouth College, launched a time-sharing system using a language meant to be learned quickly, called BASIC.
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I had the pleasure of appearing as a guest at the end of the latest episode of The Frequency with Dan Benjamin and Haddie Cooke. It’s their reboot of the show as a weekly, as I understand it. We talked a bit about how I do things at Tech News Today and it was quite fun.
A word about the title of the episode. Earlier in the show they had mentioned that Robert Scoble said he never took his Google Glasses off except to sleep. That led to Haddie wondering if that meant he never took a shower. Later in the show I mentioned during my morning routine, I shower, and cracked “unlike Scoble.” Of course they titled the show “Unlike Scoble, I take a shower.” How could they resist.
Let me go on record as saying that, despite my little wise crack, I believe Robert Scoble to be a paragon of hygiene. And there are pics to prove it.
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Apple ripping off Microsoft’s design sense, tablets dead in 5 years, Fab gets physical, and more.
Guest: Stephen Shankland
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Running time:: 0:52:57
Controversy swirls around the Sword and Laser book picks both old and new. It makes being George R. R. Martin look downright easy. And then he goes and buys a movie theater. For real. You must listen.
QUICK BURNS
George R.R. Martin buys a movie theatre
China Mieville’s turn-it-to-11 high weirdness reboot of “Dial H”
Petition to get Isaac Asimov a commemorative plaque
Too much violence in fantasy?
In a future with one last bookstore, a boy falls in love with reading
BOOK WRAP-UP
Wrap-up Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
Female characters in Pern
On the use of Dragons
A Whiteboard Reflection on Pern
EMAIL
If you remember the main trip to get back 400 years to bring the other weyr’s forward, show used the tapestry from Ruatha Hold.
The dragons of Pern need an image in the riders mind to travel between to that place. They also use an image to travel between times.
This is why the riders don’t go back in time to battle thread when necessary, they need that image to get there. It also drain’s both dragon and rider.
I don’t know how far you are into all the other books, but Lessa wasn’t the first to time travel (chronologically speaking), In “”Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern””, Moreta did some if my memory serves me.
If you haven’t read the series before, you must read Dragonsdawn! It’s the “”laser”” Dragonriders book. Basically, the first book (chronologically) of the series. I really love that book. If I had to rank the books, I would go Harper Hall trilogy, Dragonsdawn, Dragonflight, Dragonquest then The White Dragon. The others are really good, but those 7 are my absolute favorite books.
Looking forward to Sword & Laser having video shows again (really missing them!),
Dave
BOOK KICK-OFF
Wool by Hugh Howey
Controversy around Howey statements
Wikipedia entry about Wool
ADDENDUMS
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The scariest part of the LivingSocial hack, Is Google Now for iOS any good? SMS is dying, and more
Guest: Nate Lanxon
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Running time:: 0:49:29
In 1916 – Claude Elwood Shannon was born. He is considered the father of information theory and is the man who coined the term ‘bit’ for the fundamental unit of both data and computation.
In 1939 – RCA began regularly scheduled television service in New York City, with a telecast of President Franklin D. Roosevelt opening the New York World’s Fair. Programs were transmitted from mobile camera trucks to the main transmitter, which was connected to an aerial atop the Empire State Building. The broadcasting division of RCA was called the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC).
In 1993 – CERN released a statement declaring the software protocols developed for the World Wide Web would be available in the public domain.
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Amazon set-top box, Netflix long term predictions, Yahoo snags SNL archives, YouTube Comedy Week, and more.
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Running time:: 1:17:56
In 1882 – Ernst Werner von Siemens presented his “trackless trolley” called the Elektromote in a Berlin suburb. The system pulled electricity from overhead wires, but used road wheels instead of tracks.
In 1953 – KECA-TV an ABC affiliate in Los Angeles, California broadcast the first U.S. experimental 3D-TV. An episode of Space Patrol required specially polarized glasses to watch.
In 2005 – Apple released Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, introducing spotlight search and dashboard functionality.
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