Episode 8 – Steam powered fusion for idle bird shutting down? OK… GO
by Defenders of the Mirth on Mar.12, 2010, under Show
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Show notes:
Valve: full “Steam” ahead on Mac OS X with free syncing – http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/03/valve-goes-full-steam-ahead-on-mac-os-x.ars
Idle chit chat can make you unhappy – http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7379561/Idle-chit-chat-can-make-you-unhappy.html
The International Space Station gets a room with a view: space shuttle Endeavour mission in pictures – http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/picture-galleries/7250861/The-International-Space-Station-gets-a-room-with-a-view-space-shuttle-Endeavour-mission-in-pictures.html
Extinct elephant bird of Madagascar could live again – http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7405923/Extinct-elephant-bird-of-Madagascar-could-live-again.html
Is fusion power really viable? – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8547273.stm
Nuclear waste under the mountains of Nevada – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain
Tritium – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium
Owl City: Shy, retiring and No 1 everywhere – http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/jan/28/owl-city-adam-young-fireflies
Florence and The Machine – http://florenceandthemachine.net/
Ingrid Michaelson made it into the chart in 2009 with ‘Maybe’ – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKU3UuJhIxU
TWiT – http://www.twit.tv
Conan O’Brian – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_O%27Brien
LisaTickledPink & Leo Laporte 10-3-10 Radio Wammo Show, Kiwi FM – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilJ6uFr4MmY&feature=youtu.be
Leo Laporte names President of the internet – http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner/?p=2175
LHC to shut down for a year to address design faults – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8556621.stm
Information about The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid – http://lcg.web.cern.ch/lcg/public/overview.htm
Large Hadron Rap – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM
OK Go, This Too Shall Pass Music Video, Rube Goldberg Machine version – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w
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March 18th, 2010 on 4:39 pm
Hey Defenders
As per usual I’m commenting part-way into listening to the podcast. So far I have two things to say:
#1: Sorry about the skit being missing this week. I can’t help but feel I’m partly responsible.
#2: Don’t mock the poor scientists for scientifically demonstrating the fairly obvious connections between happiness and meaningful conversations. I think it might be good reminder to bring to bear in our current world where the lives of celebrities are more closely watched, on the whole, than the current affairs that might at some point affect individual people somewhere. ‘Hey… maybe… just maybe… we’d be happier talking about something interesting’
#3: REDUNDANCY JOKE!
Adieu,
BCWS
Ben “Coke Whore” Smylie
March 22nd, 2010 on 12:41 pm
Defenders,
I am at time index 50 mins 54 secs. I feel it incumbent upon myself to warn you that, if it turns out you’re about to play a third audio clip in stead of talking, and it also turns out that said audio clip is from the video for OK GO, you will be responsible for a normally quiet civil servant in an otherwise quiet NI government building to scream a chilling scream until blood appears in his mouth and/or he is unceremoniously ejected from the building.
*clicks play*
*is appeased slightly by James’ comments*
*considers that Johnny should not have commented on the hidden cut*
*realises the compromise between talking and audio*
*gets bored*
*dies of internal haemorrhaging*
*embarrassingly has to come back to life having forgotten to scream*
*screams*
*is stared at by colleagues but is not ejected from the building*
Adieu
PS Love you
February 14th, 2012 on 12:40 pm
Wow, I’m sorry. I woke up in a cold sweat last night with the realisation that what I said there was awful! I didn’t mean it! I love you! Let me out of my module, please! I’ve run out of bottles to pee in, and it turns out I can’t believe everything Kevin Costner does! Not that we need to, it’s pretty tasty, but my eyes have turned yellow 🙁
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