Defenders of the Mirth

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Audioboo – http://audioboo.fm/

Stephen Fry’s Audioboos – http://audioboo.fm/stephenfry

Topics touched upon in DOTM Boo:

Lesbianism – http://wikipedia.org/lesbianism
Homoeroticism – http://wikipedia.org/homoeroticism

Facebook Advertising review – http://techcrunch.com/2008/01/31/how-much-is-a-facebook-ad-worth-lookery-guarantees-drum-roll-125-cent-cpms/

Podcasts mentioned:

Johnny’s –

No Agenda – http://noagendashow.com

MacBreak Weekly – http://twit.tv/mbw
TWIT – http://twit.tv/twit

Windows Weekly – http://twit.tv/ww
Buzz Out Loud – http://buzzoutloud.cnet.com

You Look Nice Today – http://youlooknicetoday.com

This Week in Media – http://twit.tv/twim

James’ -

Major Spoilers – http://www.majorspoilers.com/archives/category/major-spoilers-podcast/

Comic Geek Speak – http://www.comicgeekspeak.com/

The Who Cast – http://www.thewhocast.com/

DC Noise – http://www.dcnoisepodcast.com/

Laporte wins TechRepublic’s mock election for ‘President of the Internet’ – http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=21078

Find yourself on the ‘political chart’ – http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

Gattaca:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/
Trailer – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/videogallery/content_type-Trailer

Skywalker Ranch – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skywalker_Ranch

Pixelcorps – http://www.pixelcorps.tv/

Windows Phone Series 7 – http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/windows-phone-7-series-hands-on-and-impressions/

Paul Therott’s Books – http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Paul+Therott&x=0&y=0

Babylon 5 – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105946/

“Thor” comic – http://marvel.com/comics/Thor

Doctor Who Tour – http://lifetheuniverseandcombom.blogspot.com/2010/04/doctor-who-tour-bus-belfast.html

Guitar Hero T-Shirt Design Contest – http://avatarcontest.guitarhero.com/

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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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Topless Washing Machine advert(?) – http://tv.repubblica.it/copertina/paracadutiste-in-topless-lo-spot-piu-sexy/41192?video

BBC article on Tesco banning pyjamas – _http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8484116.stm

Solomon Kane:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970452/
Trailer – http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/solomon-kane/trailer

Van Helsing:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338526/
Trailer – http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/universal/van_helsing/trailer/

The Passion of the Christ:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335345/
Trailer – http://www.thepassionofchrist.com/trailers/index.html

The Count of Monte Cristo:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245844/
Trailer – http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1391067417/

The Prisoner, American TV mini series – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner_(2009_miniseries)

Original Prisoner series – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner

LOST – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_(TV_series)

Solomon Kane review mentioning low budget – http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/417014/solomon_kane_review.html

Google streetview – http://www.google.co.uk/help/maps/streetview/

Apple sued HTC with their 20 patents – http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/handheld/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=223101486

Windows Phone 7 Series – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IOTrqlz4jo

BOL – http://www.cnet.com/buzz-out-loud-podcast/
Windows Weekly – http://www.twit.tv/ww
Macbreak Weekly – http://www.twit.tv/mbw

The Bayeux Tapestry – http://www.bayeuxtapestry.org.uk/Bayeux1.htm

Avengers comics – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers_(comics)

The New Avengers comics – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Avengers_(comics)

Secret Avengers – http://marvel.com/universe/Secret_Avengers

The Avengers TV series – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avengers_(TV_series)

The New Avengers – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074031/

‘White Christmas’ in Italy, one free of foreigners – http://www.nrc.nl/international/Features/article2445341.ece/White_Christmas_in_Italy,_one_free_of_foreigners

My Michelle – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18dBU55S6P0

Eiffel 65, Blue – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68ugkg9RePc

STONE COLD FACT!!! – Italian system administrators? Seemingly not… (No links).

Earthquake machines – http://tribes.tribe.net/haarp/thread/25409c43-8067-46b6-9307-1fad26f9080a

WarGames:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/
Trailer – http://www.wired.com/video/original-wargames-trailer/9469873001

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091042/
Trailer – http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8xyah_ferris-bueller-s-day-off-theatrical_shortfilms

Election:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126886/
Trailer – http://www.trailerspy.com/trailer/550/Election-Trailer

Emergency Yodel – http://www.emergencyyodel.com/

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Danny Elfman – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Elfman

Tim Burton – http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000318/

The siege is about to end (Avengers) – http://uk.comics.ign.com/articles/106/1061476p1.html

Cutest duck on the flickr (not the internet) (?) – http://www.flickr.com/photos/febhorne/4110117230/

South Park episode, ‘Dances with Smurfs’ – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dances_with_Smurfs

Seven Ate Nine – http://www.wheresbest.co.uk/venue/17929/Seven-Ate-Nine/

FernGully: The Last Rainforest:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104254/
Trailer – http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi3349545241/

Sunshine:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448134/
Trailer – http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/sunshine/

Atonement:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0783233/
Trailer – http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/focus_features/atonement/

The Dark Knight:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/
Trailer – http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/iphone/wb/thedarkknight/

Irreversible:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290673/
Trailer – http://www.spike.com/video/irreversible-trailer/2459569

Dances with Wolves:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099348/
Trailer – http://www.reelzchannel.com/trailer-clips/22264/dances-with-wolves-trailer

Tim Burton’s Batman:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096895/
Trailer – http://www.movie-list.com/b/batman.html

Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367594/
Trailer – http://chocolatefactorymovie.warnerbros.com/video.html#

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067992/
Trailer – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZitLEDOZ_ng

Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133152/
Trailer – http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi3481272601/

Astro Boy:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375568/

The Lovely Bones:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0380510/
Trailer – http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/paramount/thelovelybones/

Novel (Alice Sebold, 2002) – http://www.amazon.com/Lovely-Bones-Alice-Sebold/dp/B001BMXFX0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268655076&sr=8-2

Glen Duncan, Death of an Ordinary man, review of the book – http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2004/jul/17/featuresreviews.guardianreview16

Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1494772/
Trailer – http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=video&show_id=196773

Ben 10:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0760437/
Making of the movie “Ben 10: Alien Swarm” – http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/tv_shows/promotion_landing_page/ben10/index.html

Justice League (2001, aka ‘Justice League Unlimited’):

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275137/

The wonderful ProLite E2710HDSD 27″ Full HD monitor – http://www.iiyama.com/en_GB/Product/category/2/product/188#showtab1

How we decide:

Amazon – http://www.amazon.com/How-We-Decide-Jonah-Lehrer/dp/0547247990/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268907445&sr=8-1
Review – http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/books/review/Johnson-t.html
Audible – http://www.audible.co.uk/aduk/site/product.jsp?p=BK_BRLL_001535UK&BV_UseBVCookie=Yes

Doctor Who episode, “Blink” – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_%28Doctor_Who%29

Sarah Jane adventures – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0862620/

Batman & Robin – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_and_Robin_%28comic_book%29

Invincible – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invincible_%28comics%29

Siege – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_%28comics%29

All-Star Superman – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Star_Superman

Superman Red Son – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman:_Red_Son

Superman True Brit – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman:_True_Brit

Dark Knight Returns – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Knight_Returns

Alex Ross’ Kingdom Come – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_Come_%28comics%29

Booster Gold – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booster_Gold

Forbidden Planet – http://forbiddenplanet.com

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Avatar:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499549/
Trailer – http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/avatar/

Dances with Wolves:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099348/
Trailer – http://www.reelzchannel.com/trailer-clips/22264/dances-with-wolves-trailer

FernGully: The Last Rainforest:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104254/
Trailer – http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi3349545241/

Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095243/
Trailer – http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi4138336537/

Pocahontas:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114148/
Trailer – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdIIqoDakHU

Picture showing Pocahontas names crossed out, replaced with Avatar names – http://content8.flixster.com/photo/12/76/46/12764670_gal.jpg

Terminator 2: Judgment Day:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103064/
Trailer – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWutJqsk0IE

War on Terror backdrop to James Cameron’s Avatar – http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/war-on-terror-backdrop-to-james-camerons-avatar/story-e6frg8pf-1225809286903

largest living organism on earth, a mushroom – http://www.extremescience.com/zoom/index.php/largest-living-thing

The botany of Pandora – http://sciencefictionbiology.blogspot.com/2009/11/botany-of-pandora.html

Avatar: The Field Guide to Pandora: A Confidential Report on the Biological and Social History of Pandora – http://astore.amazon.co.uk/defeofthemirt-21/detail/0061896756

Language created for Avatar – http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2009/11/usc-professor-creates-alien-language-for-avatar.html

Star Wars 3D – http://www.thewrap.com/article/star-wars-3d-works-13149

Spiderman Reboot! 3D – http://screenrant.com/spiderman-reboot-officially-3d-aco-44860/

***Could not find any reference to a Batman 3d*** (James?)

Michael Bay responds with a resounding not likely to doing Transformers 3 3D (JAMES!!!) – http://www.cinematical.com/2009/07/03/michael-bay-trashes-megan-fox-talks-transformers-3-and-3d/

A look at the animation techniques of Avatar – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq_nRfoBSm0

‘COMICBOOKCRANIUMCRAM’ Links:

Marvel Heroic Age announced – http://marvel.com/news/comicstories.10914.marvel~colon~_the_heroic_age

Bucky, Captain America’s original Sidekick – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucky

Captain America himself – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_america

:’COMICBOOKCRANIUMCRAM’ Links

Windows Mobile Series 7 Demo – http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/LauraFoy/First-Look-Windows-Phone-7-Series-Hands-on-Demo/

Previous concept for Windows Mobile 7 – http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/01/winmo7rounda18.jpg

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Steve Jobs’s liver saved by Car (not motorcycle) accident – http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MensHealthNews/steve-jobs-talks-liver-transplant-apple-event/story?id=8528151

Apple iPad announcment – http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1001q3f8hhr/event/index.html

iPad specs page – http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/

Left for Dead 2 Australian censorship – http://www.ripten.com/2009/11/02/left-4-dead-2-australian-censorship-sucks-hairy-kangaroo-balls/

Netbook comic reading using Comic Rack – http://comicrack.cyolito.com/

iPhone comic reader mobi app – http://comicreader.mobi/

6.5% of BBC’s overall budget goes to salaries – http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5ibZpGYFaN2qsnFHXgpbBjsOEfKRw

Apple’s ‘pixel doubling’ issue – http://kevinnggames.blogspot.com/2010/02/what-does-game-running-natively-on-ipad.html

Apple’s TV Network Subscription (still rumour) – http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20091102/apples-itunes-pitch-tv-for-30-a-month/

A Clockwork Orange – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange

Mass Effect 2, available to purchase today – http://www.play.com/Games/PC/4-/10287938/Mass-Effect-2/Product.html

‘Borg Week’ comics are available to enjoy at – http://www.cosmicstresshead.com

Knights of the Old Republic – http://www.bioware.com/games/knights_old_republic/

Go walking, that’s what you do – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L84dSVDg5XU

Final Fantasy XIII – http://www.strategyinformer.com/xbox360/finalfantasyxiii/preview.html

Astro Boy:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375568/
Trailer – http://www.apple.com/trailers/summit/astroboy/

Empire movie review we disagree with – http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/reviewcomplete.asp?FID=135640

XKCD Comic relating to how long ago things happened, entitled ‘Scary’ – http://xkcd.com/647/

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/
Trailer – http://www.apple.com/trailers/touchstone/hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy/trailer_3/

ID Software’s Quake – http://www.idsoftware.com/games/quake/quake/

Geoff Johns scripted ‘Absolute Justice’ smallville episode – http://splashpage.mtv.com/2010/02/06/smallville-absolute-justice-review/ & ‘Legion of Superheroes’ – http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=17458

Brian Michael Bendis’s Ultimate Spiderman – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Spider-Man

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Weather pattens from the year I (intertree) was 14 – http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/EGAA/1997/7/4/CustomHistory.html?dayend=4&monthend=7&yearend=1998&req_city=NA&req_state=NA&req_statename=NA

Old 50p piece – http://www.stockphotography.co.uk/store/Zoom.aspx?Prodid=8778

Weather patterns of James’s 12th year – http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/EGAA/1996/7/1/CustomHistory.html?dayend=31&monthend=12&yearend=1996&req_city=NA&req_state=NA&req_statename=NA

Make and model of intertree’s white, 700 watt, microwave – http://imagebank.indesitcompany.co.uk/brochures_online/pdf/Hotpoint/Microwave/HB6110.pdf

Couldn’t get ahold of the ingredients of Marks and Spencer’s Submarine Rolls (AKA ‘offenders’) I’m afraid, sorry.

Irreversible:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290673/
Trailer – http://www.spike.com/video/irreversible-trailer/2459569

Requiem for a Dream:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0180093/
Trailer – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgo3Hb5vWLE

The Princess Bride:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/
Trailer – http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/39218/The-Princess-Bride/trailers

Convoy:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077369/
Trailer – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5RI30RJIPk

Centra – http://www.centra.ie/html/centra_background.html

Sherlock Holmes:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0988045/
Trailer – http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/sherlockholmes/

Techcrunch article on Steve Jobs comment – http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/24/steve-jobs-tablet-most-important/

Astro Boy:

imdb – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375568/
Trailer – http://www.apple.com/trailers/summit/astroboy/

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Welcome to our shortest and least explicit podcast ever.

The Defenders, unfortunatley, based on some bad advice tried to enhance their awesomeness… only to fail in the end.

Worry not dear Mirthlings for your Defenders will be back in force within the turn of the earth! (once we’re back in broadcast range you understand, I mean do you know how much a geostationary orbit would actually cost!?!).