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Top 5 Most Wanted Laptops – Tom's Top 5

Want something hot in your lap? Then you will really want one of these versatile notebooks.

Tech News Today 238: Wikipedia Sued By Bacon

Anonymous civil war, HP starts its own cell data, Drudge beats Twitter for news referrals, and more!

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East Meets West 251 – Megalopolis

It's amateur urban planning day on East Meets West. We talk about Houston, LA, suburbanization and the rise of the megalopolis. Why do we commute?

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Tech News Today 237: Lawyers Are Just Loaded Guns

Third Sony hack coming, Bandwidth caps under fire, Apple to ditch Intel for ARM?, and more!

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42:51

Triangulation 13: John "Capn Crunch" Draper, Part 1

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Computer programmer and former phone phreak, John "Capn Crunch" Draper, is this week's guest.

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Tech News Today 236: Rare Earth Deficit

The real scoop on the LastPass breach, Who's buying Skype, Google's surprising social strategy, and more!

Guest: Steve Gibson

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39:08

Tech News Today 235: Beating The Crap Out Of Moore's Law

Apple fixes the tracking thing, CNET gets sued by FilmOn guy, Intel gives Moore's law a whoopin', and more!

Guest: Ina Fried

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Current Geek Episode 160: How do you D&D?

Current Geek Episode 160: How do you D&D?

Tech News Today 234: Conservation of Judicial Idiocy

Judge determines IP addresses are not people, PC rental store spies on renters, NVIDIA forces Mac users to use PCs, and more!

Guest: Mark Turpin

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S&L Podcast – #61 – Literary blue balls

We get excited about the reality of George R. R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons and the scariness of a movie based on Ender's Game. We discuss how much vampires distracted from the concepts of Blindsight.  And Veronica expresses her frustration at books without clear, satisfying endings.

QUICK BURNS

ENDER'S GAME WILL BECOME A LIVE-ACTION FILM

George R. R. Martin has delivered A Dance with Dragons to the publisher

…and another less vague post

Pre-order A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin

Bantam confirms that ADWD will NOT be split

How to remember and discover Joanna Russ

CALENDAR

5/3/2011 The Inheritance by Robin Hobb
5/5/2011 The Deserter by Peadar Ó Guilín
5/10/2011 Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi
5/10/2011 The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi (Tor)
5/17/2011 Embassytown by China Mieville
5/19/2011 The Order of the Scales by Stephen Deas

BARE YOUR SWORD

Is Mark Zuckerberg a vampire?

BOOK WRAP-UP

Blindsight by Peter Watts

Two Word Reviews of Blindsight

NEW BOOK PICK!

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin

Discussion of the new book on GoodReads.

ADDENDUMS

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