Show 084 - A Christmas Horror

Greetings, I'm Mike "City Slicker" Scott, and my co-hosts today are Mic "Crocodile" Taylor and Art "Can of Yams" Hollingsworth. This week we talk about what the geeks got for Christmas, tech news, talk, and frivolity.

December 30th, 2009

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What's Going on?
Art -

  • Got my new computer up and running.
  • Saw Avatar

Mike T -

  • Wish I saw Avatar!

Mike S -

  • Washed a bunch of bottles
  • Brewed 10 Gallons of Beer all at once.
  • Cursing Google Wave

Computer History
December 30 1985 - Version 3.2 of the IBM PC-DOS operating system is announced (Also see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_computing_1980%E2%80%931989)
December 31 1976 - Microcomputer Pioneer CROMEMCO is Incorporated
January 2 1975 - Bill Gates and Paul Allen name "Micro-Soft"
January 3 1977 - Apple Computer Corporation is Incorporated

The computer history segment is brought to you by The Computer history Museum, where computing history lives. Visit them at  computerhistory.org .

Fake Commercial
Wildfire Labs - Thanks to SciFi Surplus.com

New and Interesting
- Google's phone? - Mike
- Did you see the iPhone on the island of lost toys commercial.
- Mozilla Exec urges users to ditch Google for Bing - Mike
- Do no evil Google

- 15 Sites that died in 2009 - Mike
- How fanboys see operating systems - Mike
- Cassini gets video of Saturn's moons. - Art
- Logo Contest?

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
The Leviathan Chronicles - Website

The Segmentish Type Thing
Geek Christmas Rundown - What we got