Gweek 043: Cashcats.biz


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Gweek is a weekly podcast where the editors and friends of Boing Boing talk about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, board games, tools, gadgets, apps, and other neat stuff.

My co-hosts on episode 043 are Dean Putney, Boing Boing's coding and development wizard, Michael Pusateri, a lifelong tinkerer and former television tech executive for Disney, and Veronica Belmont, the co-host of three great shows: Tekzilla, Sword and Laser, and Game On!

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Below are the show notes for Episode 043.

Chicken-BanditDean recommends so cool indie games he checked out at the Game Development Conference (Proteus, Uprok, Joust, and Chicken Bandit)

201203091608Veronica and her friends, Bonnie Burton, Felicia Day, and Kiala Kazebee, have a new monthly book club podcast about the latest in paranormal romance called Vaginal Fantasy Hangout

201203091651Veronica says her Kindle has been committing acts of violence lately

201203091648Veronica says that Mass Effect 3 is the first game to tear her away from Skyrim.

201203091612Mike's made his first batch of moonshine!

201203091614 Mark shares Myshkin Ingawale's amazing TED Fellow presentation at TED2012.

Reed-GuntherDean went to the Image Comics Expo in Oakland and said his two favorite discoveries were Reed Gunther and Street Comics.

201203091619-1Mike reports that the creators of the comic Atomic Robo (which was John Hodgman's pick when he was on Gweek a while ago) have a Kickstarter to produce a video short.

201203091631Mark's Audible pick this week is the literary thriller, The Book of Air and Shadows, by Michael Gruber.

Another-EarthVeronica recommends the dramatic science fiction story, Another Earth.

1Q84Mark and Veronica talk a bit about Reamde (Veronica liked it, Mark liked it except for the end) and 1Q84 (Veronica said she "slogged through it" and Mark is probably not going to read it now).

ChronicleMark enjoyed the science fiction movie Chronicle, about three teenagers who gain the power of telekineses. It's like a A Simple Plan for high schoolers.

201203091655Dean invites you to click on omfgdogs.com at your peril, but if you don't visit cashcats.biz, you will miss out on something amazing.

201203091658Mark shares one on his longtime favorite music sites, Bedazzled.

Cat-Paint
Veronica likes an iPhone apps called CatPaint, which lets you add all kinds of cats to your photos.

201203091706Mike shares a useful and free shopper's price comparison and unit conversion calculator called Apples2Oranges.

Superfeet
Dean says Superfeet insoles are his "secret weapon."

IpadnewWe have a discussion about the new iPad. Verdict: we all want one.

201203091714Mike likes the functional bike stem caps at Stem Captain. I'm disappointed they didn't call it Stem Cap'n, though.

201203091716Mark explains why the Clevercat Litter Box is a gopodsend.

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