Mysterious Universe Season 1 Back Catalog Available

November 12, 2009

My ongoing love affair with the unknown has been bolstered once again by the Mysterious Universe podcast.
Season 2 has been a refreshing mix of the new and the old, with Benjamin Grundy returning with a new co-host, Aaron Wright.
I have been a listener since the early days of Season 1, and I’m super excited that [...]

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Results of the Google Wave/Voice Invite Giveaway

November 2, 2009

This weekend, Worthless Genius posted a contest where participants could win a Google Wave and Google Voice invite. Quite a few people entered, but in the end, there were only three winners:

Max Marroni
Bob
Jed Koops

The winners were chosen with the super-scientific MySQL query shown here:
SELECT comment_author, comment_author_email FROM `wp_comments` WHERE comment_post_ID = 1465 ORDER BY [...]

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Google Wave/Voice Invite Giveaway

October 30, 2009

It’s that time again!  Worthless Genius has 3 Google Wave invites + 3 Google Voice invites to give away.  That’s right, it’s free!
All you have to do is comment on this thread and tell me who your favorite Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle was out of the group.  Keep this to the original 4 please, [...]

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I’m Falling In Love With An Android…Phone

October 29, 2009

A few weeks ago, something happened to me that makes geeks the world over scream with happiness: my cell phone contract had reached its end with my previous carrier.  To normal folk, this might not seem like that exciting of an occasion, but to the geek species, this is almost like having a second birthday.
Suddenly [...]

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A Night To Remember

October 25, 2009

Recently, Frostburg State University’s Center for Creative Writing held a community writing contest which focused on short “Spooky Stories”.
It’s been a long while since I’ve written something creative, so I thought I would make an attempt at this contest without regard for the prize. So, I set out and wrote this story in about [...]

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Writer’s Guilt

October 13, 2009

Every creative person before me has identified and dealt with a little issue that I’m going to call Writer’s Guilt.  Writers Guilt occurs in two distinct–yet definitely intertwined–forms.
It occurs to me that everyone with a creative pursuit must go through this ordeal and come away making a choice in either direction.  I have yet to [...]

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Jupiter Broadcasting Gives Away a Popcorn Hour

October 5, 2009

Jupiter Broadcasting, the group of guys behind the Linux Computer Action Show, CastaBlasta and a range of other great internet entertainment announced a few months ago that they were giving away a Popcorn Hour media player to one lucky YouTube subscriber.
They announced the winner on Friday:

And that lucky winner was…Me! I’m super excited about [...]

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I Find This Scientifically…Fascinating – Mysterious Universe Returns!

September 17, 2009

The podcast that has been held so highly in my heart as the best podcast ever made, Mysterious Universe, has returned after a long hiatus.
There was some speculation about the return, when the website changed to show that things were ramping up, and now we’re finally being treated with brand new episodes.
So how does the [...]

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