Today's podcast is brought to you by Benadryl and Fioricet. They didn't sponsor is, they just made it confusing to get through recording it. Enjoy.

-R

Sturgeon's Law #005
27 August, 2005
now fortified with tasty PodProducer

Opening and Closing Music - Merrigan's Reel by Jim Fidler

Global Frequency
by Warren Ellis for DC Comics
Warren Ellis fan -- but not uncritical one
Global Frequency and Transmetropolitan probably his most optimistic works if you look at their core messages
People can affect their environments if they care enough to do it
Global Frequency: 1001 people of varying talents, skills and locations connected by phone
ran during 2002, 12 independent stories
A great response to super-heroes
TV Pilot and the bittorrent flap

Promo: 5 Questions podcast

Music: "Sail Away" by NOW is NOW
band out of Maine

Celestia
Celestia Motherlode
my youth and the Kirkpatrick Planetarium in OKC
relatively simple idea that needed sufficient computrons
the key cool part: not just explore space virtually, explore space AND time
URIs can express space, time, orientation, and various settings such as rate of time passage
URIs used for lessons in Word docs by Virginia teacher

Promo: Dial-a-Dork

Yes! It's that time again. This time I recorded the entire show, called it a wash, started over and recorded the whole thing again. Think how good it must be! Yeah, right. Enjoy!

-R

Sturgeon's Law #004
20 August, 2005
now fortified with tasty PodProducer

Opening Music - Merrigan's Reel by Jim Fidler

The Dresden Files
by Jim Butcher, 7 books out so far
full disclosure!
like Raymond Chandler? Steven Brust? Laurell K. Hamilton?
usually found in SF sections but equally mystery and horror (why I hate genres!)
audio books read by James "Spike" Marsters
Dresden RPG due in 2006 from Evil Hat Productions
Jim also the author of the Codex Alera series (which I have not read) and a forthcoming Spider-Man novel

Promo: Geek News Central podcast

Music: "Why Should I Believe You (Guitar Version)" by Jenna Drey
once again, you can find her on CD Baby
Jenna performed "Just Like That" adopted as battle song for World Series Champions Boston Red Sox

Henry V
directed by and starring Kenneth Brannagh, 1989
why Shakespeare rocks
why Kenneth Brannagh rocks
Brian Blessed, Ian Holm
action, romance, drama, tragedy, and even humor
other Brannagh directed Shakespeare:

• Twelfth Night (for TV, not starring Brannagh)
  
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Hamlet
• Love's Labour's Lost
• As You Like It, due out in 2006
• also supporting actor in Oliver Parker's Othello

in my incomplete experience, Henry V the closest to flawless

Promo: The Signal podcast
mentioned last week

Somewhat belated Thanks: Scott Brenner for plugging SL on the Aug 9 Today's Podcast

Weekend again, so time for the third show! Well, okay, I actually recorded it a few days ago, but nevertheless, here it is. Enjoy. Oh yeah, as a teaser for future features -- I have a line on doing a (phone, presumably) interview with, well, let's leave it a surprise, but once I get the tech sorted out, I hope to do it and release it as a special off-schedule show. Here's hoping!

-R

Sturgeon's Law #003
13 August, 2005
now fortified with tasty PodProducer

Opening Music - Merrigan's Reel by Jim Fidler

The Signal Podcast
talked about Firefly and Serenity in SLaw #001
Kevin wrote to tell me about The Signal -- thanks!

V for Vendetta
by Alan Moore and David Lloyd with additional art by Tony Weare
In my mind, best political/social comic ever
begun in B&W in the UK comic Warrior in the early 1980s; colored and finished in 1988 for DC following success of Moore's Watchmen
more relevant than ever -- ESPECIALLY in America now
not only a look at fascism, but a look at anarchy from both positive and negative viewpoints
soon to be a film starring Hugo Weaving and Natalie Portman
I've watched the first trailer and I feel ambivalent so far -- this is a work about thought more than spectacle
Regardless... read the graphic novel!

Promo: Trucker Tom podcast
PodcastPromos site done by Trucker Tom

Music: "Don't Forget Where You Came From" by The Cool Waters Band
again, no Amazon link, try CD Baby

A Miracle of Science
by Jon Kilgannon and Mark Sachs
web comic, but not web comic strip
online graphic novel, in color, 300+ pages done so far
very original future setting, very creative story
even has an RSS feed
new pages twice a week

speaking of podcastpromos exchanges:
Promo: Home Based Travel Agents podcast

Thanks: Mur Lafferty, for playing my promo on her podcast, Geek Fu Action Grip
Thanks: Scott Fletcher, for plugging Sturgeon's Law on his podcast, Podcheck Weekly Review

Howdy, gang, back again with my charming little uhs and ums and some neat stuff to tell you about between them. Oh, yeah, and I did some sprucing up of the site, like the new logo. Neat, I hope.

-R

Sturgeon's Law #002
06 August, 2005
now fortified with tasty PodProducer

Opening Music - Merrigan's Reel by Jim Fidler

Keith Knight
Boston-raised but thoroughly Bay now
creator of fantastic comic strips The K Chronicles and (th)ink (single-panel)
also vocalist for garage hip-hop band Marginal Prophets
Life's Little Victories
undeniably and refreshingly honest and sincere...and funny!
dear to my heart for, if nothing else, his pro-adoption plugs

Promo: Programming in Tongues
Well, Joel, vumlIj vIvan!

Music: "Wave the Flags" by the Happy Campers
Punk trio out of Las Vegas
song was written in response to US attack on Afghanistan
no Amazon link currently, but get the Happy Campers album at CD Baby anyway, then drop 5% in my tip jar. :)

Battlestar Galactica
original series aired 1978-1979 season
the less said about the followup season, galactica 1980, the better
while a cult classic, certainly hard to watch, but it's not what I'm plugging
new Battlestar Galactica series on SCIFI channel -- started with a miniseries, now into second season
the late Lorne Green? cool. Edward James Olmos? GREAT.
my philosophy of science fiction film and tv
Don't worry about being behind. WATCH IT NOW ANYWAY.
and here's another place for info:

Promo: Combat Information Center