Show 097 - Dr. Who?
April 7 2010

Art "Shred your own damn pork" Hollingsworth, Mike "I'm still trying to get people to drink this pumpkin beer" Scott, Bryan "Ya'll can some on up to my place" Hineser

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This week we'll be discussing the new Doctor Who.

What's Going on?
Art -

• Trying to do some python scripting.
• Had a great time at Mike's house this weekend.
• Up to my ears in noodles.

Bryan -
 - The Jeep is gone
 - Went up to mike's Saturday
 - Made bread with mike's spent grain

Mike S -
- Listening to Coyote Rising.
- Brewed 10 Gallons of delicious beer. Had a bunch of Jerks over.
- I'm catching up on Warehouse 13

Computer History
April 7 1964 - IBM Announces "System 360" Computer Family
April 8 1991 - Java development begins in earnest
April 10 1943 - ENIAC project underway.

The computer history segment is brought to you by The Computer history Museum, where computing history lives. Visit them at  computerhistory.org .

Fake Commercial
Old Rebellion Ale: Designated Pilot - Thanks to SciFi Surplus.com

New and Interesting
- Need some help making the iPad decision? - Mike S
- A further note about SCO v. Novell - Bryan
- Beta of Linux Intergration Services for Hyper-V is released - (Tweeted by CSTechCast) - Mike S

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
The Starter - Scott Sigler - Buy it now!
A Brief Conversation With My Hair - Podiobooks - Author's Website

The Segmentish Type Thing
- The eleventh Doctor: first impressions - Bryan

Computer History
June 3 1990 - Integrated Circuit Inventor Noyce Dies.
June 6 1995 - Vatican Library to be on the Web.
June 7 1954 - World War II Enigma Buster Alan Turing Commits Suicide
June 9 1986 - Supercomputer Center Supports Precursor to Internet

The computer history segment is brought to you by The Computer history Museum, where computing history lives. Visit them at  computerhistory.org .

First Promo

Star Keeper

New and Interesting
Google Wave creating quite a buzz. - http://wave.google.com/
Windows 7 Starter to ditch the three app limit. - http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/05/29/let-s-talk-about-windows-7-starter.aspx
Time-Warner dumping AOL. - http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/05/with-no-buyers-in-sight-time-warner-finally-to-spin-off-aol.ars
Microsoft Bing. - http://www.bing.com

Intel cajoles Microsoft to limit netbook screen size

- "V" Returns to ABC this fall. ABC

Mike's links, which you can ignore if you want
- Microsoft launching new search engine, "Bing". (All Things D). Evidently, the Woz is a big fan. The "Decision Engine" goes live on June 3rd.

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo

Nina Kimberly the Merciless

Billibub Baddings

The Segmentish Type Thing
The rest of the Paul Scheiber Interview

Computer History
- January 29, 1957 - SRI and GE Meet to Choose a Place for ERMA's MICR Encoding
- January 30, 1925 - Douglas Engelbart is Born
- February 1, 1991 - Sun Microsystems Starts JavaTM Technology
- February 3, 1986 - "Vaporware" Announced"

PCMacSmackDown Promo

News / Interesting Things
Casey over at Sci-Fi Surplus has made a whole slew of their funny Commercials available Free to Podcasters. Here's Round 1, which includes 17 Commercials in all.
President Obama Gets to keep his Blackberry.
Microsoft Layoffs!?!? (MSNBC - CNET)
Drop the Zune?

Sci Fi Surplus Commercial

The Segmentish Type thing - BattleStar Galactica

Battlestar Galactica

The 5th Cylon - Bummer
http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Humanoid_Cylon
Number 1 - Brother Cavil
Number 2 - Leoben Conoy
Number 3 - Lucy Lawless - The Reporter
Number 4 - Doctor Named Simon
Number 5 - Aaron Doral - Tour of the Battlestar
Number 6 - The blonde
Number 8 - Sharon / Boomer

Final 5 -
Chief
Samuel Anders (Starbuck's Husband)
Colonel Tigh -
Ellen Tigh (The final Cylon)
Tory Foster (The President's Aid)

Thanks to J.C. Hutchins, author of the 7th son Trilogy, for his Cylon Jokes.

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