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

Sorry about the horrific audio quality, my microphone seems to be acting up. Which is bad.

To check out ANY of the links mentioned in this show, just visit http://wholelotofnonsense.wordpress.com/2008/12/24/whole-lot-of-nonsense-show-68-day-8-of-12-days-of-hand-made-gift-feedback-cian-macmahon/, and for the Zombie video, check out http://cianmacmahon.com/page3/page3.html

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View From The Quad 127 can be downloaded for free from www.ViewFromTheQuad.com.

This week I decided to do a video, because bizzarly, I can do those really fast in shoddy quality better then I can do audio episodes really fast in shoddy quality.

This week I talk about some silly political movement (which, by definition, should not be a political movement) and then about some poor dude who might have died. But I hope he didn’t.

Anyway, I really gotta get back to studying now…

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View From The Quad can be downloaded from www.ViewFromTheQuad.com for free. Except no substitutes!

Today on the show we talk about how Twilight is darker then you might think (See what I did there? I made a JOKE!), we talk about lab grown meat, practicle uses for Lightsabors and how a bittorrent tracker pwned an anti-bittorrent company.

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Links

http://is.gd/amXX – Slashfilm.com on Twilight

http://skepchick.org/blog/?p=4507 – Skepchick on Twilight

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/12/4/101038/688?source=daily – Schmeat!

http://909sickle.com/s/practical-lightsabers/ – Practicle uses for lightsabors

http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-site-pwns-anti-piracy-outfit-081206/ Bittorrent site pwns anti piracy outfit

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VFTQ 125 – Interview with GrannyMar can be downloaded for free at www.ViewFromTheQuad.com

GrannyMar, Winner of an Irish Blog Award in 2008, is Podcasting’s Super Gran. She was thrown into the online world by her daughter for a lecture on getting your granny into podcasting, and has been hooked ever since.

I met her in Podcamp Ireland 2008, where she was giving a talk on how much help a blog or podcast can be for those who have little or no family, and the talk was so very interesting that I just had to pull her aside later and asked for an interview.

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You can visit Granny Mar, subscribe to her podcast and blog, find her on twitter and much more by visiting her blog at GrannyMar.com/blog

Check out my sometimes blurry images of Top Gear Live in Ireland at Flickr.com/Photos/Cianmm

Talk to you next week!

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Here is a recording/review I did of about and using the Blue Snowball microphone. The audio has no effects on it, but my voice was slightly horse at the time of the recording.

Go to http://is.gd/8YsQ to see photos of the unboxing, and to order yourself a Blue Snowball Mic, head on down to Amazon where they have them for $85, which is a hell of a lot cheaper then I paid for my two. Just head to http://is.gd/8YmU.
Talk to you guys next week,

Cian

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Hey there!

This week I interview Ben Carey, one of the two genii (Geniuses?) behind Benrik.

“Benrik Limited is the corporate lovechild of Ben Carey and Henrik Delehag, and the outlet for their creative ideas and general outpourings.

Benrik’s mission is to introduce a welcome element of branded anarchy into our predictable lives. Benrik’s books are thus instruction manuals for warped living.”

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Links

http://is.gd/7L4i – Buy Benrik’s books. (Due to publishing restrictions, the latest Diary can only be ordered from the UK Amazon site. Benrik hope to fix this in the future.)

Tags: benrik, interview

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VFTQ episode 123 can be downloaded for free at www.ViewFromTheQuad.com

Today on the show we talk about how Apple’s new trackpad is a bit broken, the full story behind my Halloween as well as Podcasting in my school and Serenity FINALLY coming to HD!

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Links

http://www.scottkelby.com/blog/2008/archives/2248 – Problems with the new Apple Macbook Pro

http://is.gd/6NcO – Preorder the blu-ray version of Serenity in the UK

http://is.gd/6Ndy – Preorder the blu-ray version of Serenity in the US

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VFTQ 112 can be downloaded for free at www.ViewFromTheQuad.com. Accept no substitutes.

Today on the show I interview the genius creator of the 7th Son trilogy, J.C Hutchins.

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“J.C. Hutchins is an award-winning novelist best known for his 7th Son technothriller trilogy, which he released as free serialized audiobooks from 2006-07. Nearly 50,000 people worldwide have enjoyed J.C.’s work, making 7th Son the most popular “podcast novel” series in history.
A former journalist, J.C. wrote for The Palm Beach Post, the Cincinnati Enquirer, the Lexington Herald-Leader (Ky.), and Wizard: The Comics Magazine.”

Links

http://jchutchins.net – The only link you will EVER need to get to any of JC’s stuff. Really.

Tags: interview, jc hutchins

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VFTQ 121 – Fantastic Face Funk! if free for your downloading pleasures at www.ViewFromTheQuad.com

Today on the show we talk about some utterly insane man who hooks electrodes up unto his face. And then uses it as a music visualiser. Madness, I say!

Next, I rant for a bit about shitty music shops and the staff in them.

Then, we have some crazy cops who allegedly ATTACKED AND SODOMIZED some man who was alledegly smoking pot.

Then… VFTQ brings you a NEVER BEFORE HEARD trailer for the upcoming Saw 19! Yay!

Links

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxdlYFCp5Ic – Weird face visualizer guy

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10242008/news/regionalnews/horror_abuse_by_cops_135071.htm – Horror Abuse by Cops

Some sounds used in this episode are from the Free Sound Project at www.FreeSound.org

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VFTQ episode 120 is up for grabs at www.ViewFromTheQuad.com

Heya! Today in the show we talk about my upcoming interview schedule, stupid electric self balancing unicycles, some stupid antivirus virus thing called Macguard, Japan finding 34,500 times the legal dosage of PESTICIDES in Chinease beans. Om nom nom! Also on the cutting block for discussion is some weird man who implanted an RFID tag into his hand.

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Links

http://gizmodo.com/5065431/self+balancing-electric-unicycle-to-make-clowns-attention+seekers-even-less-impressive – self balancing unicycle at Gizmodo.com

http://www.tuaw.com/2008/10/17/macguard-double-plus-ungood-avoid/ – damn dirty fake antivirus

http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=Rest+of+the+World&month=October2008&file=World_News2008101614556.xml – Japan detects pesticides in Chinese frozen beans

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/10/14/video-of-a-guy-impla.html – motherfraking insane guy implants RFID tag

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat – Wikipedia article on cats. You know you want it!

http://craphound.com/littlebrother/ – Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother. Give me an interview, Cory, PLEASE!