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Tech News Today 263: Leave The Wii Be

Citibank hack a URL hack, Google's speech recognition and instant pages, Bloomberg accuses Comcast of violating FCC agreement, and more.

Guest: Cali Lewis

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Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell

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Published on June 14, 2011 22:06

FourCast 79: Talk To The Animals

Hosts: Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson

Twitter and Facebook will die, GPS gets hacked, animal chats make us all vegetarians, but we all die anyway, and more.

Guests: David Peto and Shawn Boyd

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Running time: 59:13

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Published on June 14, 2011 12:54

Top 5 Most Owned tablets – Tom's Top 5

Sure, everyone wants a tablet, but we let you know which ones people are buying.

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Published on June 14, 2011 04:00

Tech News Today 262: Internet In A Briefcase

The latest on the hacker wars, is Facebook falling, US funding secret Internets, and more.

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Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Darren Kitchen and Jason Howell

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Published on June 13, 2011 22:03

S&L Podcast – #65 – Think of the children!

This week we bring you the first two-word review of Geoirge R. R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons, some excellent hard scifi for you scientist types, and a philosophical discussion of dark YA books.

QUICK BURNS

Submit to Machine of Death VOLUME 2!

First review of A DANCE WITH DRAGONS

The Best Hard Science Fiction Books of all Time

Interview with Dan "Robopocalypse" Wilson

Brandon Sanderson's "A Memory of Light" may not be published until later in 2012

CALENDAR

6/15/2011 The Uncertain Places, Lisa Goldstein (Tachyon Publications)
6/15/2011 Leviathan Wakes, James S.A. Corey (Orbit)
6/28/2011 Dragon's Time: Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey and Todd McCaffrey
6/29/2011 "Naamah's Blessing, Jacqueline Carey (Tor)

AUDIBLE PICK

Robopocalypse: A Novel by Daniel H. Wilson
Narrated by Mike Chamberlain

BARE YOUR SWORD

The Hunger Games > Hunger Games vs. Battle Royale – Josh

The Hunger Games > Film Adaptation – Ken

The Hunger Games > The deaths of children – Veronica

BOOK CHECK-IN

Veronica: On book 3, loving it so far!

Tom: On book 2, loved book 1, book 2 still good -Finished Best Served Cold and Wolves of the Calla, on to Song of Susannah and Last Argument of Kings

EMAILS

Hello Veronica and Tom, Horkken here from Paris, France.
I know you talked about it on a previous episode but now that the HBO series is coming to France (this week (yes it's fast)) I wondered what is the best option.
Reading the book first and then watch the show or watch the show and then read the book ? I know it must be a common question but I usually have a rule, always read the book before watching an adaptation on screen but I really don't know with Game of Thrones.
So I would like your opinion on that. Thank you !

PS: In the original version you have 4 books so far, the french translation is in 12 books. The publishers are real butchers here. (It's even worse with Robin Hobb).

Thank you.

Horkken

NEW MEMBERS HELLOS

Hello new members!

ADDENDUMS

George R.R. Martin signing and S&L meetup!

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Published on June 13, 2011 20:15

East Meets West 254 – Irritable Chang Syndrome

This week a classic potpourri of topics including self-diagnosis, dubious notoriety, posthumous awards, Super 8, how Doctor Who let Roger down, generation nomenclature, and your feedback.

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Published on June 12, 2011 20:38