LTG Episode 20: 20 Questions

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Random

• 20 Dumb song titles: http://www.innocentenglish.com/funny-poems-songs/top-song-titles.html (Number 20 is "Get off the gas stove granny")
  • Lyrics-http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=82416

In this show

• Stewart Allen
• Tim Haak
• Barry Reid
• Jeff Hinds

Guest

• Quintin van Rooyen
  • Twitter:@quintinza
  • website:http://geeq.co.za/

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Events

• 15-17 September 2010 http://www.iweek.org.za/
• 18 September 2010 http://www.sfd.org.za/Facebook Software freedom day
• 1-3 October 2010 http://www.rageexpo.co.za/
• 9 October 2010 http://www.zacon.org.za/
• 20 October 2010 My Broadband conference. - Date not set in stone as yet.

Tips

• Forward spam sms's to complaints@waspa.org.za.
• Android app called "CallFilter" from the Market, that can be set to block Unknown numbers calling me, as well as SMS'es.

Topics

• Birthdays: Today
  • Linux(19th)
  • win95(15th)
• The Amp Hour mention and R/$ issues
  • http://www.theamphour.com
• What different sorting alogrithms sound like
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXAjiDQbPSw
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8g-iYGHpEA
• Futurama writer invents new math theorem just to use in their show
  • http://gizmodo.com/5618502/futurama-writer-invented-a-new-math-theorem-just-to-use-in-the-show
• Flatland
  • http://www.math.brown.edu/~banchoff/gc/Flatland/
• Giant land turtles (or a big ass Tortoise)
  • http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/08/last-giant-land-turtle
• PS3 finally hacked so now you can play all of your backed up games
  • http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11035928
• StarCraft AI Competition
  • http://eis.ucsc.edu/StarCraftAICompetition
  • http://playground.uncc.edu/aiide/
  • http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chrsmith/archive/2010/03/18/writing-a-starcraft-bot-in-f.aspx
  • Registration: Now - 9.1.2010
  • Submission and Testing: 9.1.2010 - 9.15.2010
  • Competition: 9.15.2010 - 10.15.2010
  • Finals:10.15.2010
  • Competition: 9.15.2010 - 10.15.2010
  • Finals:10.15.2010
• http://teambox.com/
• Non-profit space program launches in one week
  • http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/
• China's Massive Traffic Jam Could Last For Weeks
  • http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129395326
• New AMD 8 Core Bulldozer Looks cool
  • http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/amd_announces_8-core_bulldozer_cpu
• Freakonomics Movie
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfC-ZHJ4A5U

Picks

Tech purchase in the past year that has provided the most happiness/improvement in life?

• Tim
  • http://www.xtreamer.net/
• Stew
  • My Oscilloscope, Agilent DSO1002A
• Barry
  • http://www.xtreamer.net/
• Quintin van Rooyen
  • KDE4 http://www.kde.org
• Jeff
  • DSTV HD PVR

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