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So, this week I thought that I would throw in a short story I wrote a while back, it’s called Glider, and it’s a sort of World War 2 story. Interesting fact: EVERYTHING that happens in this story (except the existance of the main character) actually happened. Seriously. Look it up!

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So, where is your episodes of VFTQ for these past two weeks? Truth be told, pretty much nowhere. Why? Sixth year. I blame sixth year. I have some prerecorded episodes in the can, and I might throw one of them into the feed tomorrow. Over the midterm break I will have the chance to do a lot more recording, so expect some stuff then.

However, let it be known that over the next few months, VFTQ will be sporadic at best, due to the very scary loomination of the Leaving Cert.

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Today’s letter to the clubbers is “F”, and I talk about the history and backstory of one of the most used effects in the known universe, Flange. Enjoy!

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Hello, and welcome to this fine episode of View From The Quad, available at www.viewfromthequad.com!

Heya, and welcome to this episode of View From the Quad! For some reason, I was granted a media pass to this year’s BT Young Scientist awards, and so I attended, microphone in hand, to interview some of the brightest sparks that I could find in Ireland. Get ready to feel inadequacy brought on by three minute chats with people younger then you! (Keep an ear out for a live performance of a musical saw!)

In the order of appearance:
Tommy Collison with his project entitled “Examining the attitude of secondary school students towards blogs”. You can find Tommy at his blog on www.TrustTommy.com, and find his full report online at http://tinyurl.com/ydp5xnb

Ben McRedmond and Patrick O’Doherty with their project entitled “Analysing social networking data to identify trends on the web.” It can be found online at www.WePredictIt.com

Artyom and Kyrill Zorin with their project “Zorin OS”, a version of Linux that can be downloaded for free at http://Zorin-OS.webs.com

Rory Hughes with his project entitled “Wireless Electricity Controller”.

Ben Chapman with his project “Exploitation of routers using alternate DNS Servers” which can be found online at http://www.exploitDNS.ie

Rónán O Curráin with his project called “An Bhfuil Deochanna boga gan siúcra níos fearr d’fhiacla ná deochanna boga le siúcra”, or “Are fizzy drinks without sugar better for teeth then fizzy drinks without”, and I start this interview trying to speak Irish with him, but give up quite soon.

Mairín Ryan with her project on “The Physics of the musical Saw”

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I spent the day today at the BT Young Scientist Awards, chatting to some of the geniuses who have entered their projects there. VFTQ 173 will consist most of these interviews, along with whatever else I dredge up. It might be late tomorrow night though.

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Hello, and welcome to this fine episode of View From The Quad, available at www.viewfromthequad.com!

This week’s episode of View From The Quad is brought to you by the Sonic Boom trust fund. More about that important cause in the episode.

Hi there, loyal listener or fresh newbie to the VFTQ universe! Today on the show, I talk about Tee Morris, who has hit a very dark part of his life, and how podcasters, podcast listeners and his friends are gathering together to try to make this point in time go as smoothly as it can go for both him and his daughter.
On the topics side of things, I talk about my time in the School that wasn’t, The Institute, a failed snowball fight attempt and the first season of House. I also speak about the latest episode of Dollhouse, but at the very end of the show, so don’t you worry about spoilers.
We also discuss the difference in how people in Fan culture speak and act (as opposed to “Mundains”), how new airport scanners may break child porn laws, how Atheist Ireland is tempting a new anti-blasphemy law by publishing 25 blasphemous quotations and a God Mode unearthed in Windows 7, and how it has begun a holy war.

Instead of donating to me this week, I’m asking you to donate to Sonic Boom’s trust fund, set up after her mother, and the wife of one podcasting legend Tee Morris, died suddenly. Give all that you can spare and read more about the tragedy and how the money will be spent at http://bit.ly/6U9kvC. Thanks. Tee, although he has gone dark online after the death, really appriciates your help.

http://www.atheist.ie/2010/01/25-blasphemous-quotations/ – Atheist Ireland post 25 blasphemous quotations
http://www.fantasymaps.com/stuff/fanspeak.html – Fanspeak
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jan/04/new-scanners-child-porn-laws – New airport scanners break child porn laws
http://gizmodo.com/5440159/understanding-windows-7s-godmode – Understanding Windows 7’s Godmode

http://www.ViewFromTheQuad.com/letters/ – the special section of the site for Cian’s Letters to the Clubbers

We also play Blue Stahli’s Anti You in this episode of View From the Quad. You can pick up your own copy of the song at http://www.fixtstore.com or on iTunes at http://itunes.apple.com/ie/album/anti-you/id347771422 and I encourage you too! It’s a great song.

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“Tee and Sonic Boom (his young daughter) are not only facing the loss of Natalie, (his wife) but also significant and immediate costs involved with her death and keeping their family together.

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Hello, and welcome to this fine episode of View From The Quad, available at www.viewfromthequad.com!

Heya there, and welcome to the shownotes of this week’s episode of View From The Quad! We are dealing with a problem or two at the backend of the site and fancy ass hosting service, but hopefully this won’t affect you in downloading this tasty episode.

Today on the show we cover NASA crashing a really REALLY expensive helicopter from 35 feet, my recent addiction to Steam (I’m cianmm! Add me!), Microsoft losing a patent on XML in Office, the new Dreamliner and a lot more!

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Books mentioned in the show
http://bit.ly/5HuIcR – Freakonomics
http://bit.ly/7fxWcE – Logicomix
http://bit.ly/6WGVKp – The Wire Primers
http://bit.ly/6M2QpY – Professor Stewart’s Hoard of Mathematical Treasures: Another Drawer from the Cabinet of Curiosities
http://bit.ly/6ssahh – Anathem

Links
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/12/boeing-787-dreamliner-interior/ – The Boeing 787
http://www.zopag.com/news/nasa-crashes-helicopter-to-test-new-shield-for-cars/11850.html – NASA crashes helicopters
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-12/23/microsoft-loses-word-and-office-patent-appeal.aspx – Microsoft in Patent trouble

http://www.scodio.com/blog – My blog, with mentioned blog posts

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Yup. I’m aware of the issue with the feed, and am sorting that out with the kindly Libsyn and Wizzard.tv people.

A while back, I was pissed off by a group of religious nutbags who decided to see the virgin Mary in a treestump in county Limerick. So I started thinking for a while. What would it be like if this sort of behavior was normal?
Sure, I know that we get our odd “ELVIS ON A SLICE OF TOAST” eBay posts, but what if this “Things, what look like other things”-mania swept the nation, and started getting 24/7 coverage?

I give you “Things, What Look Like Other Things”.

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Hello, and welcome to this fine episode of View From The Quad, available at www.viewfromthequad.com!

This week on View From The Quad, we talk about that UFO hovering over Norway (or not), the Oscar 1 satellite, another possible Apple Tablet video, people wanting to be Irish, and Dollhouse. Don’t worry! There are spoiler-warnings!

Links
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/12/09/weird-giant-spiral-seen-in-sky-over-norway/ – Norway Spiral
http://gizmodo.com/5422792/this-is-how-the-mysterious-giant-spiral-happened – How the Spiral happened
http://collections.nasm.si.edu/code/emuseum.asp?profile=objects&newstyle=single&quicksearch=A19640011000 – Oscar 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHRSDWZC_m4 – New Apple Tablet video

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