• Video releases
• Microsoft will not support DVD playback in Win 8 (link)
• Google… guilty guilty guilty (Google, Java, and Oracle) (link)
• Scientists think they figured out how rocks move in Ireland (link)
• LEGO Firefly may be coming?
• Lagunitas Brewing Company has issued a challenge, and it’s kind of cool (link)

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• Video Releases
• Black Dynamite sequel to start shooting by the end of the year
• Microsoft is investing in Nooks (link)
• UK High Court orders ISPs to block Pirate Bay (link)
• A Weighty Subject*: The kilogram may be getting a new definition (link)
• Melissa went to EbertFest!

Peeks:

• Paul: Movie – The Wolves
• Melissa: Movie – The Stone Tape

*Yeah, I know.  I couldn’t resist

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• Video Releases
• Machete Kills is really happening
• Apple does it again…and iPads sell through the roof
• Asteroid Mining (link and link)
• Developer posts the original 6502 assembler code for Prince of Persia (link)
• Keylogging the taps on your Android phone (link)
• Windows 8 Release Preview in June (link)

Peeks

• Melissa: Ebertfest
• Richard: Retronaut

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• Video Releases
• James Cameron is King of the World again (link)
• Canada mints the world’s coolest coin (link)
• Evil alarm clock is evil (link)
• Apple II Computer 35 years old (link)
• LOAD “GOODBYE JACK”, 8,1 - Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore, RIP (article) (Wikipedia)
• Where do you hide your guns? (link)
  
• SpaceX to launch end of month (link)
  

Peeks

• Melissa: Cult animator and Academy Award nominee Don Hertzfeldt at the Riverview Theater, April 22
• Melissa: Minneapolis Hitchcock Festival
• Paul: The Aimless Cook
• Mike: Not much, just building a RepRap…

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Heads up!  This one runs a bit longer than normal (1h 46m?  Wow!)

• Video Releases

We have Feedback!

• Sarah sets us straight about the ansible
• William shows us how one dude (fictionally) resigns over an employer’s Facebook policy (link)
• Bryon suggests a future of comics, which leads to a good conversation with Chris, Fes and everyone else.

At one point, we realize that the interview pretty much started a while back, and continue the conversation with Christopher Jones about his work in the comics industry.  Fun stories abound.

Peeks:

• Melissa and Chris – The Cabin in the Woods

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• Paul’s wife got into the new Warcraft beta, but Paul has not…
• Video Releases
• Why is this news? Amazon Instant Video is now on Playstation 3
• The thing about internet “journalism” (link)
  - Why is no one sourcing a link to the alleged Microsoft quote?
• Gaming console rumors abound
• Red Hat has its first $1 Billion year
  - And some people still say free software won’t amount to anything
• Settlement talks have collapsed in Oracle lawsuit v Google over Java patents in Android
• Cool crazy billionaire projects: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos wants to retrieve the F-1 engines used in the Apollo 11 launch (link)
• Like to shoot the night sky?  The Canon EOS 60Da is out (link)
• And you think you don’t have enough hard drive space… (link)
• Canada stops making the pennies, eh (link)

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• Video releases
• Hunger Games does $155 million opening weekend US
• So Hollywood’s going to do Orwell’s 1984 again?
• Harry Potter ebooks are out (link)
• James Cameron completes deepest solo dive in history, beats Dos Equis guy for ‘Most Interesting Man Alive’ title (link1) (link2)
• Windows Phone news: Nokia Lumia 900 goes on sale at AT&T April 8 for $99.99
• Should you have to allow someone access to your private accounts just to apply for a job? (link)
• …At least one senator thinks not (link)
• CDs soldier on (link)

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Melissa, Paul and Richard talk about:

• Video releases
• The iPad 3 (or the New iPad)…
• Especially the retine display, which leads to a conversation about digital comics (link)
• Will the Windows 8 tablets be able to keep up? Which leads to…
• Windows 8 on PC and ARM supposedly due October (link)
• Speaking of digital books, The Britannica ceases printing on paper (link)
• Edge of Science: Neutrino Communications? (link)
• Copyright Math – It’s True, I Have Excel (link)

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At the beginning of the episode I mistakenly call it No. 144. Ignore the man behind the microphone! But we do have Richard (me), Melissa and Paul to talk about:

• Video releases
• Apple releases apocalyptic Safari update (link)
• …and a configurator tool for iPads (link
• Just to prove we don’t hate Android, Galaxy S gets Ice Cream Sandwich (link)
• Open beats closed, except when it doesn’t (link)
• Why is there more matter than anti-matter? Now legal in 48 states! (link)

Peeks for this week:

• Melissa: Army of Shadows (link)
• Richard: Bruce Springeen “Wrecking Ball” (link), Zola Jesus “Cornatus” (link and videos here)

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So, not only did Richard come back, but he made a backup recording!  w00t!

• Video releases
• Fox pulls a Fox, cancels Terra Nova
• RIP – Ralph McQuarrie (link)
• Nothing exceeds like excess: Warner’s is putting out a “Harry Potter Wizard’s Collection” on 31 discs
• Apple’s doing (okay, did) something with iPads. Come back next week.
• Lo-Fi movement comes to film (link)
• The micro-Linux computers just keep coming (link)
• Adobe gets agressive
• Curious about installing and running Windows on a USB flash drive? Ars Technica tells you how (link)
• Speaking of Windows 8…

Peeks:

• Paul – The OREO cookie turned 100!
• Mike – This is What A Scientist Looks Like (link)
• Richard – Saints Row: The Third

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