April 2011
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Show Notes: Episode 22b
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This Week in Star Trek
Tyler Perry wants J.J. Abrams to call him about ‘Star Trek 2’
Hey, review us on iTunes.
Nerds on Tech
Holy Shit: Apple Profits up 95%
Double Holy Shit: Apple is Tracking Us All
Intel Producing Android Device Processors
Weird Al snubbed by Lady Gaga, but Not Really
Cloud Burst: Amazon Bites It, Takes Down Reddit
Weird...
March 2011
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Show Notes: Episode 22
This week, Jerry and Cord take on the mysteries of the universe without the horrible sound quality.
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Nimoy Emerges from the Mothballs
Mr. Spock will voice the role of Sentinel Prime a forebear of Optimus Prime whose rickety robotic body morphs into a mighty fire engine during the final battle between Autobots and Decepticons set in Chicago.
The 80-year-old Nimoy...
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Show Notes: Episode 21
This week, Cord and Jerry use their nerd power to solve global problems, globally. This Week in Star Trek Sulu Working to Save Japan Takei, who served two terms on the diplomatic Japan-United States Friendship Committee (a position granted him by former President Bill Clinton) pleaded with listeners of the Stephanie Miller morning talk radio show to help in any way they can. Takei suggests...
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Show Notes: Episode 20
This week, we get extreme with our retirement, which will come early. Oh yes, it will.
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Shatner Wants to Play Kirk Again
The 79-year-old actor, who recently surprised the ‘Discovery’ space shuttle crew with a wake-up call, says he will always look back fondly on the Star Trek films, saying, “I think it struck a nerve in its humanity, as well as its sense of...
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Show Notes: Episode 19
This week Cord and Jerry stop being polite, and start getting real. This is a true story.
This Week in Star Trek Simon Pegg says Star Trek 2 script is finished!
Giving Back to the Fans Thanks to Sarah Longwell, Krista Speicher, Elisabeth McCaffrey, Ali Tooley, Kathleen O’Hearn, Steve Bice, Brendan Nee, Ray Lehmann, KyMcKenzie, Rob Raffety, and Elle Speicher.
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February 2011
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Episode 18: Show Notes
This week we roll out like Anderson Cooper. You guessed it, we’re keeping them honest. Also, Cord is re-watching “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” The whole damned thing.
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Star Trek Script Close to Completion
Ever since J.J. Abrams’ 2009 reboot of Star Trek scored $385 million at the box office, Paramount, as well as fans, have been waiting for a...
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Show Notes: Episode 17
This week, we celebrate the victory of the World Champion Green Bay Packers, and pulling back ever so slightly from the brink of nihilism.
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Shatner Gets Even Heavier
William Shatner is intent on recording a metal album[…]the Star Trek actor will have plenty of experienced help on hand, with members of Deep Purple and Queen guesting on the album according to LA...
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Show Notes: Episode 16
We’re “Sweet 16” today and feeling fabulous.
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Gene Roddenberry’s original pitch for Star Trek
STAR TREK is a “Wagon Train” concept — built arround characters who travel to worlds “similar” to our own, and meet the action-adventure-drama which becomes our stories. Their transportation is the cruiser “S.S....
January 2011
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Show Notes: Episode 15
The fans continue to support us, the media can’t ignore us, our critics bore us. This convo spits mad heat, so watch yourself.
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Star Trek was Totally Not Gay
Star Trek producerBrannon Braga says he regrets not featuring openly gay characters in the franchise.
“There were people who felt very strongly that we should be showing casually, you know, just two...
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Show Notes: Episode 14
This week we do what we do every week, talk some nerdy-ass shit.
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Sulu, Song, and Civil Rights
As guest narrator for “Sci-Fi Spectacular,” the debut program on the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2011 Pops Season calendar, veteran actor George Takei[…] shared with the audience some of the groundbreaking elements of the 1966-69 television series...
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Show Notes: Episode 13
This show is about how we don’t believe in luck, especially any unlucky vibes that might come from doing our 13th episode. No, instead we believe in nothing. That’s right, Lebowski, nothing.
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Google Unveils Universal Translator
Today’s alpha release of Conversation Mode offers translation between English and Spanish using an Android device.
From...
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Show Notes: Episode 12
This show is about the new year, the new Tron, and new reasons for nerds to be angry.
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80-Year-Old Publish Trek Guide
As the writer of the six-book series “Star Trek Reader’s Reference to the Novels,” the 70-year-old with several advanced degrees has read and summarized nearly 80 Trek-themed novels. You could say she’s gone where no woman has gone...
December 2010
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Show Notes: Episode 11
This week we’ve figured out how to see listener submissions and we even use one of them! I’ll probably drone on too long about the Metrodome collapse, Jerry will hate the video game section (as usual), but we’ll end strong with stories about emo kids, an IBM trivia machine, Google News, and nerds throughout history. Delightful.
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Geordi on Community
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Show Notes: Episode 10
This week we start out with a correction (not our mistake, NASA’s), then we go right into Star Trek related news, some fun facts about Patrick Stewart offered up by Wikipedia, and then the usual slurry of strange news, trivia, and nerd rantings.
Corrections
NASA Scientists Should be Ashamed
When the NASA scientists took the DNA out of the bacteria, for example, they ought to have taken...
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Show Notes: Episode 9
Hey everyone, I’m going to start releasing the show notes shortly before we record the show as one big unified post. Hit us up with comments or suggestions below the notes and maybe we can talk about whatever is on your mind when we record the show.
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Star Trek and the Power of the Book
The top 20 growing Facebook pages included Rihanna, Harry Potter, Shakira, Texas...
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To the Itokawa and Back Again →
Japanese scientists have confirmed that particles found inside the Hayabusa probe after its seven-year space trip are from the asteroid Itokawa.
Does Anyone Still Need to Buy the White Album? →
Apple launched the Beatles on iTunes Tuesday, but the company this afternoon answered another question about band’s music — the exclusivity of the deal with Apple. “The Beatles will be available for digital downloads exclusively on iTunes, with the exclusive expiring in 2011,” an Apple spokesperson told The Loop.
I Still Won't Pay for Hulu →
Hulu Plus, which provides streaming video access to a large variety of network programs shortly after they air, has lowered its monthly subscription price by $2. At less than $100 a year it’s almost tempting to subscribe even if you’d use the service only occasionally — it comes just in time for Christmas — and maybe that’s just the value prop the service needs to break through.
Facebook vs. Gmail →
Facebook is seeking to replace e-mail with what it calls a “modern messaging system” that combines all the ways people send messages — including e-mail, IM and SMS — into a single interface. It’s a clear assault on Google and and its popular “social” application — Gmail.
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Facebook’s message system sorts all messages between two people into a single, long thread.
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Hey, which one of our nukes did this? →
Nuclear-weapons scientists have analyzed post-explosion debris for decades, but usually with an eye toward evaluating the effectiveness of the weapons they’ve built, or in the case of above-ground tests by another country, to determine what the explosive yield was, Dr. Fahey says. Such has been the case with trinitite.
But in speaking with weapons scientists, he says he learned that...
Reading Steals Parts of Your Brain →
The authors of a paper that will be released by Science today suggest two possible alternatives to explain this widespread literacy. Either reading is similar enough to something that our brains could already do that it’s processed by existing structures, or literacy has “stolen” areas of the brain that used to be involved in other functions. (A combination of the two is also...
Anti-Matter form of Hydrogen Isolated →
Physicists working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, have succeeded in trapping antihydrogen – the antimatter equivalent of the hydrogen atom – a milestone that could soon lead to experiments on a form of matter that disappeared mysteriously shortly after the birth of the universe 14 billion years ago.
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While the number and lifetime are...
This Week in Wikis: NCC & USS on Star Trek →
Can someone please settle this great debate for us? The forums don’t seem to help…
DARPA Mach 20 Weapon Tumbles →
The Hypersonic Test Vehicle 2 — a 12-foot, 2,000-pound wedge packing a three-stage Minotaur booster — launched without incident from California on April 22. It climbed to the edge of space for a planned 30-minute, 4,000-mile jaunt toward Kwajalein in the middle of the Pacific.
But nine minutes into the flight, controllers on the ground lost contact with the HTV-2. The culprit, according...
The Power of the Force, er, Cleavage? →
After two seasons trotting around the universe half-naked in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Anakin Skywalker’s female understudy is finally dressing the part of a mostly modest Jedi warrior. Wired.com complained about Ahsoka’s tube-top-and-miniskirt costume, which was strangely revealing in light of the fact that most Jedis rock full-length robes, even on the desert hell of Tatooine.
Awesome Kinect Hacks →
The first properly impressive use of Microsoft’s new peripheral comes from Oliver Kreylos, as he shows off Kinect being used as a 3-D video capture tool. Thanks to the Kinect’s depth-sensing camera, which bounces thousands of infrared dots off objects in your room to detect how far away they are (much like sonar or echolocation, but with light), Kreylos can use that depth data to make a crude 3-D...
Talking to Your Kids About Episodes I, II, III →
The GeekMoms wrote earlier this week about talking about sex with your kids, which is certainly a daunting and important conversation. But for many geeky parents, there’s another important topic: how soon do you talk to your kids about Star Wars? In what order do you watch the films? What do you tell them about Jar Jar? And when do you talk to them about Luke’s father?
Oh God No, It's a Space-Time Cloak →
That space-time cloak—or TARDIS, or Star Trek transporter—you always wanted may be within reach. Researchers first proposed an “invisibility cloak” a few years ago. But now, optical physicists have now drawn up blueprints for a cloak that creates a separate reality pocket in which any event can be concealed, Nature reports.
Here’s how it works: the space-time cloak’s...
Okay, We Get It, You're a Nerd Hottie →
Rosario Dawson has made it clear that she’d like to appear as a sexy Klingon in the Star Trek sequel.
TSA Nudie Cams are Junk Security →
The quick response to intelligence [regarding the toner bombs] and targeted security measures could provide a partial template for future action. The next step would be questioning passengers and employing more elaborate sensors when travelers’ behavior or specific threats warrant — instead of making us all get digitally nude.
Kinect Hasn't Been Hacked →
“Kinect for Xbox 360 has not been hacked—in any way—as the software and hardware that are part of Kinect for Xbox 360 have not been modified. What has happened is someone has created drivers that allow other devices to interface with the Kinect for Xbox 360,” Microsoft told GameSpot. “The creation of these drivers, and the use of Kinect for Xbox 360 with other devices, is...
$250k for an Apple 1 →
What current tech will be worth a grip of cash in the future? What old-school tech would you pay top dollar to have now?
Microsoft Is Not Amused →
But Microsoft isn’t taking kindly to the bounty offer. “Microsoft does not condone the modification of its products,” a company spokesperson told CNET. “With Kinect, Microsoft built in numerous hardware and software safeguards designed to reduce the chances of product tampering. Microsoft will continue to make advances in these types of safeguards and work closely with law enforcement and product...