LTG Episode 35: P-I-R-A-C-Y spells DOOM

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Random

There are more instances of i before e AFTER C than the old rhyme would let us believe (i before e except after c) i.e "science"

In this show

• Stewart Allen
• Tim Haak
• Barry Reid

Guests

• Quintin van Rooyen

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Topics

• IRC Topics
  • http://fukung.net/v/36221/7f229a6b8597c0808b9691f26f94e9f2.jpg
  • http://www.urbansketchers.org/2011/01/we-keep-in-touch.html
  • http://referencelibrary.blogspot.com/2011/01/via-olivia-locher.html
  • http://theanimalblog.tumblr.com/post/2657521084/telegraph-readers-pictures-of-the-year-2010
  • http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/07/zombie-stationery.html
  • http://www.salon.com/entertainment/comics/this_modern_world/2011/01/10/this_modern_world/index.html
  • http://www.google.com/images?q=241543903&biw=1920&bih=968
  • http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/holiday-season-robot-videos
  • http://lifehacker.com/5729625/a-beginners-guide-to-setting-up-a-treadmill-desk
  • http://www.google.com/images?q=241543903

• Going for an interview wear glasses
  • http://gawker.com/5723703/wearing-glasses-will-get-you-a-better-job

• Update all your mac apps from one place
  • http://lifehacker.com/5729602/appfresh-updates-all-your-mac-apps-from-one-unified-place

• Angry Birds

• • Stats
    • Angry Birds has been downloaded over 50 million times.
    • 80% of people who download Angry Birds keep the app installed.
    • Over the holidays, Angry Birds was being downloaded more than a million times a day.
    • There are 200 million minutes played a day on a global scale.
    • The free, ad supported version of Angry Birds on Android has been downloaded over 15 million times.
    • Rovio spent about $100,000 on the original Angry Birds.
    • The average mobile-game player is 45 years old and nearly as likely to be female as male, according to a survey last year of more than 1,100 customers of AT&T's wireless service. (source)
  • http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/03/angry-birds-gets-real-corporeal-in-china-at-least/
  • http://www.joystiq.com/2011/01/07/angry-birds-board-game-coming-this-may-from-mattel/

• Cool console concept from razor
  • http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/06/razer-switchblade-7-inch-pocket-gaming-concept-blows-our-minds/

• 12c Per KM on toll
  • http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=130921

• Putting work off more painfull than actually doing it
  • http://lesswrong.com/lw/3kv/working_hurts_less_than_procrastinating_we_fear/
  • http://lifehacker.com/5729838/leave-your-tasks-unfinished-for-greater-productivity

• Vaccine for cocaine addiction
  • http://io9.com/5725864/cocaine-vaccine-could-make-drug-addiction-a-distant-memory

• Finally chargers and data cables to be standerdised
  • http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/eu-adopts-microusb-cell-phone-charger-standard/

• Twitter fights the good fight
  • http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/01/twitter/

• Android 3.0 looks cool
  • http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2011/01/sneak-peak-of-android-30-honeycomb.html

• Stuck on sudoku why not use google gogles
  • http://lifehacker.com/5730003/remains-of-the-day-google-goggles-solves-sudoku

• Can I have crickets with that
  • http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/01/10/0412238/Scientists-Advocate-Replacing-Cattle-With-Insects

• Conterfeit software will delete your facebook account
  • http://mybroadband.co.za/news/software/17679-Beware-Counterfeit-software-will-delete-your-Facebook-account-Microsoft.html

Pick of the week

Preferred doomsday event?

• Cecilia
  • Asteroid impact
• Stew
  • Close gamma ray burst(Then he turns into the hulk and smashed a crater to the core ending life as we know it )
• Quintin
  • Massive solar flare wiping out all electronic technology.
• Barry
  • Zombie apocalypse
• Tim
  • There isn't one :p

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