Archive for January, 2007

015 - Moore’s Law

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

Moores Law, brain teaser, carats and karats, pin of the week, listener feedback, and news.
Music on todays show comes courtesy of Pod Safe Audio:
Zur Jeden Massenmord - A Tender Offer
Keenan Baxter - Extreme XK8
V R 4 3vA - Agar Tum Mil Jao
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Show 15 transcript
Please vote for this podcast this month at

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Melbourne Weather

Monday, January 29th, 2007

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Happy Australia Day

Friday, January 26th, 2007

For those in Australia, or those who celebrate it overseas, Happy Australia Day!

-OG

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014 - Comet McNaught

Friday, January 26th, 2007

Comet McNaught, mystery actress, Babylonian calendar, mountains on Titan, Vegetarian IQ, wealth, the cost of the Iraq invasion, German bans, and listener feedback.
Comet McNaught

A picture of Comet McNaught I took with my trusty camera.

A picture of the city from the top of the mountain, whilst comet watching.

Music on todays show comes courtesy of Pod Safe [...]

Card file

Friday, January 19th, 2007

I noticed this thanks to Lorne from the GCP podcast.

You can make your own here
digg this

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013 - Temperature Scale

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

The different temperature scales, world flags, the origins of chess, pin of the week, brain wave remote controls, discovery of new species, oil free economies, comet McNaught, and bigger bird brains.
Music on todays show comes courtesy of Pod Safe Audio:
The Drowning Hundred - Pulsare in Repose
Ball in the House - Superstition
Commander Yo - Celestial Voices
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Links

Friday, January 12th, 2007

I use the following in the creation of this podcast:
Apple Australia - this podcast is created on Apple equipment.
Garageband - this is the software I use to record and mix the show
RODE - I use a RODE Podcaster microphone
iPod - where the RODE isn’t practical, I use an iPod to record interviews
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012 Update

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

Hi folks,
I just noticed that the enhanced podcast picture information, which worked as an AAC file, got lost somehow during conversion to a mono MP3 file - so you’re just going to get the standard podcast logo in your video iPods. As a result, I’ve posted the photos that I talked about in the [...]

012 - Discovery of Dark Matter

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

Discovery of Dark Matter, brain teaser, pin of the week, climate change news, negative molecules in space, creation of matter, possible asteroid hitting earth, monkey deodorant, concrete pyramids, Ali rap, and listener feedback.
Music on todays show comes courtesy of Pod Safe Audio:
mjc - Trance Mentality
Ocean Alexander - Hummingbird
The Cheebacabra - Operation Anaconda
Spacemission - Ich Liebe [...]