In each episode of Gweek, I invite a guest or two to join me in a discussion about recommended media, apps, and gadgets. This time my guests were:
Ramez Naam, a computer scientist and the H.G. Wells Award-winning author of three books, including the sci-fi thriller Nexus, which has been optioned as a film by Paramount and director Darren Aronofsky. The follow up title, Crux, came out in August.
Dean Putney, Boing Boing's software developer and Gweek regular, whose self published a book of his great-grandfather's World War I photos.
Danimal Cannon, a touring chiptune and heavy metal musician who occasionally composes music for indie video games. His album Parallel Processing was recently launched as the soundtrack for the new game Wave Wave on iOS.
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Show Notes:
Ramez's picks:
Geekomancy and Celebromancy by Michael Underwood: Fun, witty, insider-joke filled geek urban fantasy.
How to get the most out of Facebook & Twitter: It's all about Lists. And an app: TweetDeck.
rubtr: A browser plugin that lets you rebut pages that are inaccurate, and see rebuttals that have been made.
Dean's picks
Wave Wave – upcoming iOS game by Thomas Janson built around a fantastic chiptune album by Danimal Cannon.
The ArtisanVideos subReddit
Mark's picks:
From Russia With Doubt: The Quest to Authenticate 181 Would-Be Masterpieces of the Russian Avant-Garde A couple of amateur art collector brothers buy $(removed),000 worth of paintings on eBay, and they are appraised at $(removed) million.
My Passport Ultra 2TB Portable External Hard Drive I have replaced my external desktop hard drives with these. They are small, quiet, and inexpensive.
And much more!
