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September 15, 2011
Tech News Today 328: Blue Face Of Death
Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell
Facebook crushes Twitter, Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo team up, Sony hoardes the Vita, and more.
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Running time: 38:03
Triangulation 24: John Perry Barlow
Hosts: Leo Laporte and Tom Merritt
Most known for his political activism, writing lyrics for the Grateful Dead, his essays on the internet, and founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, John Perry Barlow, is this week's guest.
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Running time: 55:12
September 14, 2011
Current Geek Episode 177: 30 second rule!
Current Geek Episode 177: 30 second rule!
Snorb!
Written by Tom Merritt, drawn by Scott Johnson
Written by Tom Merritt, drawn by Scott Johnson
Written by Tom Merritt, drawn by Scott Johnson
Tech News Today 327: Then End Of WinTel?
Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell
Windows 8 brings MS mojo back, Yet Intel's hugging up on Android! And what science actually says about WiFi sickness, and more.
Guest: Dr. Kiki
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Running time: 44:14
September 13, 2011
FourCast 90: Putting the "I" In IPO
Hosts: Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson
Beatniks, home power and board games will make our future complete.
Guests: John Kovalic and Ken Denmead
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Running time: 51:04
Top 5 Hottest Phones! – Tom's Top 5
Android this, iPhone that – which phones are really killing it right now? We turn to GDGT for the answer.
Tech News Today 326: HTC Does What It Wants
Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell
Amazon wants to be the Netflix of books, AT&T goes bongo for Mango, GameStop gets in the tablet business, and more.
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Running time: 34:26
September 12, 2011
S&L Podcast – #75 – FlashForward Wrap-up
We have a huge calendar to get through. Some great books are coming out this month! Plus we wrap up Flash Forward by Robert J. Sawyer and with all the great conversations on Goodreads, we have a lot to say! Also a fruit fly died in the making of this episode. He is survived by several thousand other fruit flies.
QUICK BURNS
Twitter's literary superstar, @MayorEmanuel, will tweet a science fiction short story tomorrow
CALENDAR
9/13/2011 The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
9/13/2011 Prospero Regained, L. Jagi Lamplighter
9/13/2011 Highest Frontier, Joan Slonczewski
9/13/2011 How Firm a Foundation, David Weber
9/15/2011 War in Heaven by Gavin Smith
9/15/2011 Briarpatch, Tim Pratt
9/20/2011 Reamde, Neal Stephenson
9/20/2011 Goliath, Scott Westerfeld
9/22/2011 The Islanders by Christopher Priest
9/27/2011 Ganymede, Cherie Priest (Tor)
9/27/2011 The Hum and the Shiver, Alex Bledsoe
9/27/2011 The Immorality Engine by George Mann
BOOK WRAP-UP
Flash Forward by Robert J. Sawyer
Foreign Language Pet Peeves – Anne
Tech in 20 years – Vladimir
Determinism vs. free will – Josh
TV and Movies
World War Z begins filming in Glasgow – Nick
Star Wars: The Old Republic – Kevin
BARE YOUR SWORD
Hi Tom and Veronica,
Hey where do you get the info for the Calendar segment you have? Is it a website? I looked on Goodreads and didn't see anything related to that.
This would be a useful site to bookmark.
Thanks,
Jim
From Boston.
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Hi Veronica and Tom,
I recently downloaded the .mobi version of United Moon Colonies from archive.org and was saddened by the formatting. The .mobi file kept all the ""United Moon Colonies"" headers and the pages numbers from the original file. The problem is that they must have been treated as plain text when the original file was converted in .mobi and .epub, so now they pop up right in the middle of sentences.
It really bothered me, I'm a bit OCD-ed sometimes : I like things neat. Because of this and the fact that I am not a big fan of pdf reading on the Kindle, I decided to reformat the whole thing to make it more comfortable for me to read. It took a bit of work but I think I straightened it all out. At least I hope I did, although I'm sure there must be a forgotten line break hidden somewhere.
Anyway, I may not be the only one bothered by the archive.org files, so I thought I'd submit these reformatted .mobi and .epub to you so that you may do with them as you please.
As for the cover, I used the one Sean submitted on the Goodreads thread, credit where credit is due 
It would be easy enough to change it back to the original one if needed.
Anyway, I thought it might interest you and might make the reading more enjoyable for other people. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a Tom Merritt book to read
Keep up the good work.
Nicolas.
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