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VFTQ 177 - Steam is coming to Mac!
Today on the show I have a lot of stuff for you, since I felt guilty over not posting an episode for the last two weeks. So you win!
News topics today: Valve are bringing their gaming distribution network, Steam, and their games including Half Life, Team Fortress 2 and Portal to the Mac. Take THAT, people who claim Macs aren't for gaming! A blogger (linked below) has released instructions on how to make problematic food from Firefly, a study has shown strong links between religiosity and racism (whudathunkit?), an LA graffiti artist makes a booboo, and much more. I also play the song The Best it's Gonna Get by Celldweller
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Scodio Blog updates: Since the last episode of View From The Quad, I have posted a single blog post on www.Scodio.com, entitled How to iPhone, Android ready your Blog and Podcast. You can view it at http://www.scodio.com/?p=400 .
Links
http://atheistnews.blogs.fi/2010/03/09/us-study-shows-strong-links-between-religiosity-and-racism-8143182/
http://gizmodo.com/5488383/steam-comes-to-mac-offers-cross+platform-gaming-free-of-charge
http://tastyplanner.com/blog/articles/The-Problem-with-Ice-Planets
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/02/tagger-runs-afoul-of-dozens-of-la-county-deputies-meeting-in-commerce.html
http://www.fixtstore.com/celldweller - Celldweller's stuff on Fixt Online
http://itunes.apple.com/ie/album/wish-upon-blackstar-chapter/id347773679 - The Best It's Gonna Get on iTunes
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VFTQ 176 - HOW many condoms? [Explicit]
Today on VFTQ, I try out a few new audio tracks and a new intro. However, the REAL meat of today's show is a chat I have with my pal, Ben, who has a story to tell us about a very amusing prank. I know you will enjoy it! Please go to www.ViewFromTheQuad.com to see any photos mentioned in the episode.
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VFTQ 175 - A Chat with Tee Morris: (Mostly) Uncut [Updated]
EDIT: Now with working audio
Heya and welcome to episode 175 of View From The Quad!
Today on the show, we have a long overdue chat with repeat VFTQ guest, Tee Morris.
As always, when it comes to shows featuring Tee Morris, we talk about everything and anything. But here's an attempt to list some of the more prevalent topics.
- The huge amounts of snow Tee is having to put up with
- The lack of snow at the Vancouver Olympics
- The Social Media Jungle, and "New Media Experts"
- Tee's books on Twitter
- Tee's views on Dragon*Con and Balticon
- Books and Brawn
- Coauthoring a book with somebody on another continent, and how that
has changed over the last few years
- iPad
- The state of Sci-Fi television
- Blues Brothers
- Bill Gates on Twitter
- Zune team sending every podcaster ever emails claiming that our shows
are featured on the Zune website
- AND MORE!
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Links
http://www.TeeMorris.com - Find Tee Morris on the web
All a Twitter, Tee's book on how to use Twitter - http://bit.ly/9wdfQl
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VFTQ 174 - Glider
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Cian's Letters to the Clubbers - F, Flange
VFTQ 173 - BT Young Scientist
Hello, and welcome to this fine episode of View From The Quad, available at www.viewfromthequad.com!
Heya, and welcome to this episode of View From the Quad! For
some reason, I was granted a media pass to this year's BT Young
Scientist awards, and so I attended, microphone in hand, to interview
some of the brightest sparks that I could find in Ireland. Get ready to
feel inadequacy brought on by three minute chats with people younger
then you! (Keep an ear out for a live performance of a musical saw!)
In the order of appearance:
Tommy Collison with his project entitled "Examining the attitude of
secondary school students towards blogs". You can find Tommy at his
blog on www.TrustTommy.com
Ben McRedmond and Patrick O'Doherty with their project entitled
"Analysing social networking data to identify trends on the web." It
can be found online at www.WePredictIt.com
Artyom and Kyrill Zorin with their project "Zorin OS", a version of Linux that can be downloaded for free at Zorin-OS.webs.com
Rory Hughes with his project entitled "Wireless Electricity Controller".
Ben Chapman with his project "Exploitation of routers using alternate DNS Servers" which can be found online at exploitDNS.ie
Rónán O Curráin with his project called "An Bhfuil Deochanna boga gan
siúcra níos fearr d'fhiacla ná deochanna boga le siúcra", or "Are fizzy
drinks without sugar better for teeth then fizzy drinks without", and I
start this interview trying to speak Irish with him, but give up quite
soon.
Mairín Ryan with her project on "The Physics of the musical Saw"
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VFTQ 172 - Sonic Boom's episode
This week's episode of View From The Quad is brought to you by the Sonic Boom trust fund. More about that important cause in the episode.
Hi there, loyal listener or fresh newbie to the VFTQ universe! Today on the show, I talk about Tee Morris, who has hit a very dark part of his life, and how podcasters, podcast listeners and his friends are gathering together to try to make this point in time go as smoothly as it can go for both him and his daughter.
On the topics side of things, I talk about my time in the School that wasn't, The Institute, a failed snowball fight attempt and the first season of House. I also speak about the latest episode of Dollhouse, but at the very end of the show, so don't you worry about spoilers.
We also discuss the difference in how people in Fan culture speak and act (as opposed to "Mundains"), how new airport scanners may break child porn laws, how Atheist Ireland is tempting a new anti-blasphemy law by publishing 25 blasphemous quotations and a God Mode unearthed in Windows 7, and how it has begun a holy war.
Instead of donating to me this week, I'm asking you to donate to Sonic Boom's trust fund, set up after her mother, and the wife of one podcasting legend Tee Morris, died suddenly. Give all that you can spare and read more about the tragedy and how the money will be spent at http://bit.ly/6U9kvC. Thanks. Tee, although he has gone dark online after the death, really appriciates your help.
http://www.atheist.ie/2010/01/25-blasphemous-quotations/ - Atheist Ireland post 25 blasphemous quotations
http://www.fantasymaps.com/stuff/fanspeak.html - Fanspeak
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jan/04/new-scanners-child-porn-laws - New airport scanners break child porn laws
http://gizmodo.com/5440159/understanding-windows-7s-godmode - Understanding Windows 7's Godmode
http://www.ViewFromTheQuad.com/letters/ - the special section of the site for Cian's Letters to the Clubbers
We also play Blue Stahli's Anti You in this episode of View From the Quad. You can pick up your own copy of the song at http://www.fixtstore.com or on iTunes at http://itunes.apple.com/ie/album/anti-you/id347771422 and I encourage you too! It's a great song.
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VFTQ 171 - NASA crashing things
Heya there, and welcome to the shownotes of this week's episode of View From The Quad! We are dealing with a problem or two at the backend of the site and fancy ass hosting service, but hopefully this won't affect you in downloading this tasty episode.
Today on the show we cover NASA crashing a really REALLY expensive helicopter from 35 feet, my recent addiction to Steam (I'm cianmm! Add me!), Microsoft losing a patent on XML in Office, the new Dreamliner and a lot more!
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Books mentioned in the show
http://bit.ly/5HuIcR - Freakonomics
http://bit.ly/7fxWcE - Logicomix
http://bit.ly/6WGVKp - The Wire Primers
http://bit.ly/6M2QpY - Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures: Another Drawer from the Cabinet of Curiosities
http://bit.ly/6ssahh - Anathem
Links
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/12/boeing-787-dreamliner-interior/ - The Boeing 787
http://www.zopag.com/news/nasa-crashes-helicopter-to-test-new-shield-for-cars/11850.html - NASA crashes helicopters
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-12/23/microsoft-loses-word-and-office-patent-appeal.aspx - Microsoft in Patent trouble
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VFTQ 171 - New To VFTQ Video: Things, What Look Like Other Things
Sure, I know that we get our odd "ELVIS ON A SLICE OF TOAST" eBay posts, but what if this "Things, what look like other things"-mania swept the nation, and started getting 24/7 coverage?
I give you "Things, What Look Like Other Things".
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VFTQ 170 - Things he saw on de TV, 'e won't see agaaaain
This week on View From The Quad, we talk about that UFO hovering over Norway (or not), the Oscar 1 satellite, another possible Apple Tablet video, people wanting to be Irish, and Dollhouse. Don't worry! There are spoiler-warnings!
Links
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/12/09/weird-giant-spiral-seen-in-sky-over-norway/ - Norway Spiral
http://gizmodo.com/5422792/this-is-how-the-mysterious-giant-spiral-happened - How the Spiral happened
http://collections.nasm.si.edu/code/emuseum.asp?profile=objects&newstyle=single&quicksearch=A19640011000 - Oscar 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHRSDWZC_m4 - New Apple Tablet video
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VFTQ 170 - Things he saw on de TV, 'e won't see agaaaain
This week on View From The Quad, we talk about that UFO hovering over Norway (or not), the Oscar 1 satellite, another possible Apple Tablet video, people wanting to be Irish, and Dollhouse. Don't worry! There are spoiler-warnings!
Links
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/12/09/weird-giant-spiral-seen-in-sky-over-norway/ - Norway Spiral
http://gizmodo.com/5422792/this-is-how-the-mysterious-giant-spiral-happened - How the Spiral happened
http://collections.nasm.si.edu/code/emuseum.asp?profile=objects&newstyle=single&quicksearch=A19640011000 - Oscar 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHRSDWZC_m4 - New Apple Tablet video
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VFTQ episode 169 - Tomatoes, Mad Scientists and Gloves
This week on the show I finally announce the winners of VFTQ's competition to win a copy of JC Hutchins's new book, 7th Son: Descent. Take a listen to find out if you won!
We also discuss how to make any gloves work with an iPhone or iPod Touch (This is something that has been bothering me for ages. I never quite understood the use of fingerless gloves. What's the point of gloves if you can't warm your fingers?), how some mad scientists plan to make life everlasting within 10 years time, a Wired writer who tried to take a new identiy for a month (and why he failed), a new study technique that I have discovered as well as news of the new iPhone entering testing phases. And, as usual, a whole lot more!
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Links
http://hackaday.com/2009/11/25/make-any-gloves-work-with-a-touch-screen/ - Make any gloves work with Touch Screens
http://io9.com/5414151/near+immortality-within-the-next-20-years-life+extension-scientists-hope-so Near immortality within the next 20 years? Life extention scientists hope so! (But are they really just madmen?)
http://www.wired.com/vanish/2009/11/ff_vanish2/8/ - Wired author attempts to take up a new identity
http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/ - The Pomodoro Technique for study. It rocks.
http://www.macrumors.com/2009/11/28/apple-starts-field-testing-next-generation-iphone-31/ Apple starts field testing next generation iPhone 3,1
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VFTQ episode 169 - Tomatoes, Mad Scientists and Gloves
This week on the show I finally announce the winners of VFTQ's competition to win a copy of JC Hutchins's new book, 7th Son: Descent. Take a listen to find out if you won!
We also discuss how to make any gloves work with an iPhone or iPod Touch (This is something that has been bothering me for ages. I never quite understood the use of fingerless gloves. What's the point of gloves if you can't warm your fingers?), how some mad scientists plan to make life everlasting within 10 years time, a Wired writer who tried to take a new identiy for a month (and why he failed), a new study technique that I have discovered as well as news of the new iPhone entering testing phases. And, as usual, a whole lot more!
Remember: This show runs on YOUR donations! If you like what you hear here and want more of the same, head over to www.ViewFromTheQuad.com and leave a donation! It can be any amount you want, or a monthly â2 subscription. Thanks!
Links
http://hackaday.com/2009/11/25/make-any-gloves-work-with-a-touch-screen/ - Make any gloves work with Touch Screens
http://io9.com/5414151/near+immortality-within-the-next-20-years-life+extension-scientists-hope-so Near immortality within the next 20 years? Life extention scientists hope so! (But are they really just madmen?)
http://www.wired.com/vanish/2009/11/ff_vanish2/8/ - Wired author attempts to take up a new identity
http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/ - The Pomodoro Technique for study. It rocks.
http://www.macrumors.com/2009/11/28/apple-starts-field-testing-next-generation-iphone-31/ Apple starts field testing next generation iPhone 3,1
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VFTQ episode 168 - CLttC Feedback
Remember to enter the 7th Son competition! This is the last week!
This week I play a feedback episode of Cian's Letters to the Clubbers. Enjoy!
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VFTQ episode 168 - CLttC Feedback
Remember to enter the 7th Son competition! This is the last week!
This week I play a feedback episode of Cian's Letters to the Clubbers. Enjoy!
Remember, you can contact me by emailing cian@viewfromthequad.com or leave a voice message to be played on the show at (001) 206-203-4610 and get them played on the show!
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