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Whoa… Dude… This is like so… decongestany!

This episode of VFTQ is a 18 minute long ramble through the happenings of the past few days, in which I attempt to explain why the podcast feed, for a short while, was the Occam’s Barbershop feed, among many other things.

Remember: This show runs (mostly) on YOUR donations! If you like what you hear here and want more of the same, don’t donate to me, because I screwed up. Instead, go buy some sammiches and give them to poor people.

Here’s the deal:

For the past 10 days, ViewFromTheQuad.com has been redirecting to another one of my sites. I have no idea why this is. I managed to fix it today, but not without screwing around with the trust that you, the VFTQ listener, has in me. This redirect was not a dirty attempt to get more hits for another one of my sites, and has in fact hit me financially pretty hard due to people being unable to download the show at all, whether it is through the Podcast feed or on the Website.

Hopefully I will be able to discuss this more on a future episode of the show.

Apologies,

Cian.

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This week on the show, we have a rather science-heavy topic load. Also, a bit of chat about TV up at the front. And I accidentally lied in the intro. Sorry about that!

Topics covered on the show include how NASA has found a new type of life (This Changes EVERYTHING!), some rather cool and scary sounding research the Chinese are doing and how Facebook are attempting to trademark the word Face. Online, at least. Also, a whole slew more!

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Remember: This show runs (mostly) on YOUR donations! If you like what you hear here and want more of the same, head over to www.ViewFromTheQuad.com and leave a donation! It can be any amount you want, or a monthly €2 subscription. Thanks!

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So, I feel a little bit guilty about not giving you an episode of VFTQ this week, and that 40 second video doesn’t make me feel much better. So how about an episode of Occam’s Barbershop, my other podcast/radio show? Subscribe free at www.OccamsBarbershop.com to get every episode delivered to you free as we get them uploaded, or listen LIVE at www.DCUfm.com each Friday from 2PM to 3PM Irish time!

Occam’s Barbershop is a weekly program on DCUfm, which is podcasted here. New episodes are broadcast live from the heart of the DCU campus online at www.DCUfm.com on Fridays from 2PM until 3PM.

This week on the show, we talk to co-founder of Irish Skeptics in the Pub, Rebecca O’Neill, about the Pub-attending atheists, among many other deathly important matters, such as what sort of funeral she would like and whether she thinks Irish Education is out of place with it’s religion studies. She then foolishly agrees to take part in the now world-famous Occam’s Quiz, and makes a heroic effort to win the grand prize.

It should be noted that we REALLY want YOU to take part in the weekly quiz! If you feel like giving it a shot, send us an email at TheBarbers@OccamsBarbershop.com and we will vet you for inclusion in the show! We are attempting to get our hands on a cool prize. One thing to be noted is that you will have to be free between the times of 2PM and 3PM on the Friday that we have you on the show. We look forward to hearing from you!

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View From The Quad should be downloaded from www.ViewFromTheQuad.com and nowhere else, you scoundrel!

This week on View From The Quad, we have a rather packed show for you, including something that hasn’t been on the show in a fair while, rambling and story telling! (Not fiction, but still, we are getting there!)

In news stories, we cover how Facebook can trigger asthma attacks, how Richard Branson will serve as an air hostess (note ‘hostess’. I explain in the show.), I tell you how mad the TSA searchings are getting (in the show, I’m not quite sure what TSA stands for. Turns out TSA is a Polish hard rock and heavy metal band.), the single biggest threat to net neutrality, why you just can’t stop at a single slice of cheese, whether 4Chan may have finally met their match, and much more!

Sponsor: Visit gotomeeting.com, click the try it free button and use promo code: Podcast.

Remember: This show runs (mostly) on YOUR donations! If you like what you hear here and want more of the same, head over to www.ViewFromTheQuad.com and leave a donation! It can be any amount you want, or a monthly €2 subscription. Thanks!

You can contact Cian by emailing cian@viewfromthequad.com.

Follow Cian on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/cianmm and follow Scodio Studios at http://www.twitter.com/scodio

Leave a comment on the show at www.ViewFromTheQuad.com and phone the voicemail line at 001 206 203 4610

VFTQ’s themesong is DoubleQuick by Blue Stahli. You can find it at http://www.FixtStore.com

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Right so, I’m writing these shownotes in a kitchen filled with smoke, possibly from burnt sausages or something, and my eyes are starting to sting, so let’s get this over with nice and fast. This week, I tell you how Dublin Zoo are making a monkey’s of stoping bullying, how Hasbro’s new 3D iPhone gizmo is going to fail horribly, the next biggest world ending disaster that will strike the world in about 30 years and how you can’t keep a good file sharing network down.

Sponsor: Visit gotomeeting.com, click the try it free button and use promo code: Podcast.

Remember: This show runs (mostly) on YOUR donations! If you like what you hear here and want more of the same, head over to www.ViewFromTheQuad.com and leave a donation! It can be any amount you want, or a monthly €2 subscription. Thanks!

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Right kids, let’s be short and snappy this week. Covered on View From The Quad this week are numerous topics, but we had to cut the show short thanks to Ireland being destroyed by a Tornado. True story. What happens when you drink and handle snakes, Microsoft’s anti-piracy crackdown, how a blogger caught idiot kids after they posted their unlawful ways on Facebook, how Google started a land-war thanks to their Maps software, and much more.

Sponsor: Visit gotomeeting.com, click the try it free button and use promo code: Podcast.

Remember: This show runs (mostly) on YOUR donations! If you like what you hear here and want more of the same, head over to www.ViewFromTheQuad.com and leave a donation! It can be any amount you want, or a monthly €2 subscription. Thanks!

You can contact Cian by emailing cian@viewfromthequad.com.
Follow Cian on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/cianmm and follow Scodio Studios at http://www.twitter.com/scodio
Leave a comment on the show at www.ViewFromTheQuad.com and phone the voicemail line at 001 206 203 4610
VFTQ’s themesong is DoubleQuick by Blue Stahli. You can find it at http://www.FixtStore.com

Click ‘Read More’ for the links associated with this episode.

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VFTQ 204 should be downloaded from www.ViewFromTheQuad.com in order to get the full tasty and vibrant VFTQ experience. Or the RSS feed works too. Basically, and I never thought I would have to say this, don’t pirate the show. Because it’s free anyway. I mean, what’s the point? Jeeze….

This week on View From The Quad, it’s halloween! I’m joined in-studio by Charlie, who has been on the show three times before, I believe. We discuss important issues such as the Rally for Restoring Sanity And/Or Fear, how Limewire has been handed a court injunction and how this effects the few pirates still using the service, how proof of water has been found on Mars, Spanish prostitutes, one of the more ridiculous Apple rumours either of us have heard and much more.

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VFTQ 203 should be downloaded at www.ViewFromTheQuad.com right now, young man!

This week on VFTQ, we have your weekly five course meal of tech, sci-fi and other news! We have robots who punch humans to make them cry, we have the best troll in history, how Alzheimer’s is infectious (but don’t worry, it’s not bad), we have my thoughts on all the new Apple gear (as well as reporting on a bug that has been found in FaceTime), how banned light-bulbs are being sold as heaters to get around European regulations, and we have an iPhone that was sent into space on a weather balloon and came back to tell the tale. Of course, there is also LOTS more.

Remember: This show runs (mostly) on YOUR donations! If you like what you hear here and want more of the same, head over to www.ViewFromTheQuad.com and leave a donation! It can be any amount you want, or a monthly €2 subscription. Thanks!

You can contact Cian by emailing cian@viewfromthequad.com.
Follow Cian on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/cianmm and follow Scodio Studios at http://www.twitter.com/scodio
Leave a comment on the show at www.ViewFromTheQuad.com and phone the voicemail line at 001 206 203 4610
VFTQ’s themesong is DoubleQuick by Blue Stahli. You can find it at http://www.FixtStore.com

Click ‘Read More’ to see the links.

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