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October 17, 2012
Tech News Today 608: Li’l iPad Coming
Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell
Microsoft announces tablet prices, Apple announces mysterious announcement, RIM announces developer farm, and more.
Guests: Peter Wells and Evan Brown
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Running time: 52:14
October 16, 2012
S&L Podcast – #112 – Interview with G. Willow Wilson!
WHAT ARE WE DRINKING?
Tom: 2011 Black Mountain Vineyard Pinot Noir Haro Hills
Veronica: 2009 Sassotondo Ciliegiolo Toscana
QUICK BURNS
2 New “Star Wars” Books on the Horizon by John Jackson Miller and James S.A. Corey (Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck)
Neil Gaiman announces new novel
Amazon Studios Options Its First Novel, Seed, For A Crowdsourced, Big-Screen Adaptation
The Humble Ebook Bundle Is Back With Works By Doctorow, Gaiman, and Scalzi
Student Publishes Extensive Statistics On the Population of Middle-Earth
CALENDAR
INTERVIEW
G. Willow Wilson Wikipedia entry
G. Willow Wilson’s Website
ADDENDUMS
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Tech History Today – Oct. 16
In 1843 – Sir William Rowan Hamilton finally hit on the idea of Quaternions, and needing a bit more space than his hand to jot it down, he carved it into the stone of Brougham Bridge in Dublin. Why do you care about quaternions? Because calculations involving three-dimensional rotations are essential for 3D computer graphics and computer vision. Video games people.
In 1923 – Distributor M. J. Winkler, contracted to distribute the “Alice Comedies”marking the founding of the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio which eventually changed its name to the Walt Disney Company, at Roy’s suggestion. So don’t expect anything after this date to ever go out of copyright.
In 1959 – Control Data Corp. released its model 1604 computer, the first from William Norris’s group that left Sperry Rand Corp.
October 15, 2012
Frame Rate 97: And… Science!
Hosts: Brian Brushwood and Tom Merritt
Skydiver Baumgartner sets YouTube record, FCC allows basic cable encryption, leaked Boxee TV, Spotify TV deal with Samsung, and more.
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Running time: 1:07:29
Tech News Today 607: The Dark Social Rises
Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell
Xbox Music forces you into Win8, Japan’s Softbank buys Sprint, 8 million people watch spaceman fall, and more.
Guest: Myke Hurley
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Running time: 50:55
Tech History Today – Oct. 15
In 1878 – The Edison Electric Light Company began operation. They would go on to become more general. As in making up a significant part of General Electric.
In 1956 – Fortran, the first modern computer language was shared with the public for the first time. The IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System made John Backus a legend, kicked off modern programming, and is still developed to this day by the Fortran Standards Technical Committee.
In 2003 – China launched the Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission, becoming the third country in the world to have independent human spaceflight capability. Yang Liwei piloted the capsule showing the flags of the People’s Republic of China and the United Nations.
October 14, 2012
Tech History Today – Oct. 14
In 1884 – US inventor George Eastman received a patent on his new paper-strip photographic film. It would reign for over 100 years until digital stole its thunder.
In 1977 – The Atari 2600 went on sale in North America.
In 1985 – The first official reference guide for the C++ programming language was published. It was written by the language’s creator, Bjarne Stroustrup.
October 13, 2012
Tech News Today 606: Raise Your Plastic Resin Hand
Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell
Windows 8 gets a price, Kindle Paperwhite is profitless, Apple steals from Samsung this time, and more.
Guest: Darren Kitchen
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Running time: 53:25
Tech History Today – Oct. 13
In 1884 – Geographers and astronomers adopted Greenwich as the Prime Meridian, making it the International standard for zero degrees longitude. Today the Greenwich observatory shoots a laser northwards at night to indicate the meridian. It is not a dangerous laser.
In 1983 – Bob Barnett, president of Ameritech Mobile communications, called Alexander Graham Bell’s nephew from Chicago’s Soldier Field using a Motorola DynaTAC handset. It marked the launch of the first cellular telephone network in the US.
In 1985 – The first observation of a proton-antiproton collision was made by the Collider Detector at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.
October 12, 2012
S&L Video – #14 – Author Guide for Gail Carriger!
Gail Carriger joins us in the space castle for tea time, a lesson in Victorian vampire name pronunciation, and what’s forthcoming from the ‘Parasol Protectorate’ universe!
Find Gail Carriger online!
GoodReads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2891665.Gail_Carriger
Twitter: https://twitter.com/gailcarrigerr
Website: http://gailcarriger.com/
Retro Fashion Blog: http://retrorack.blogspot.com/
Our Author Guide to Gail Carriger links:
Background on the Author:
http://www.steampunktribune.com/2010/10/oi9-interview-with-ms-gail-carriger.html
http://gailcarriger.com/images/home/gail.png
http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicc/cfiles32879.jpg
http://new.oberlin.edu/
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/archaeology/index.aspx
http://anthro.ucsc.edu/graduate/anthropological-archaeology.html
‘The Parasol Protectorate’ series:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soulless_(novel)
http://www.orbitbooks.net/soulless/
http://www.nelsonagency.com/sales_bestsellers.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changeless_(novel)
http://www.orbitbooks.net/2010/04/07/changeless-becomes-a-new-york-times-best…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blameless_(novel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartless_(Carriger_novel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeless_(novel)
