From what I gathered from my Twitter feed over the weekend, everybody seems to be talking about the ACTA and how everybody seems pissed off by it. It would also seem that for once I got on the band wagon early because my cohosts and I discussed this in the middle of last week while we were recording the snow. There were a few other things we talked about but it seems that this is the one that people are the most concerned about, it makes me think that the segment concerning the ACTA should have been bumped up a couple of slots to the feature instead of the WTF of the week. I could use this space to discuss the ACTA at further length, but I feel there is nothing more I can say on the matter that hasn’t already been said. That and today has me feeling a bit tired.

I may or may not make this whole matter next weeks feature to shed some more light on it if people are still talking about it next week when I record. I agree, it is an important matter, but I won’t give said matter any more coverage if the short attention span of the average internet user and podcast listener has found something else to be concerned about.

I could also use this space to talk about NaNoWriMo, but after the first week I’m sure those of you who aren’t participating are tired of hearing about it. So if you care to see how I’m faring I encourage you to visit my writer blog

I hope you enjoy this weeks show, we’ll see you next week.

0:00 Intro
2:30 Front End Banter
9:00 NaNoWriMo and Brains
15:00 Break: Free Will
17:20 The PodCaster Triple Threat
18:15 One of the Funniest Youtube Videos Ever (according to Ben)
20:10 NVidia chip sets wont support USB 3.0 until 2011
27:35 The Movie Industry is still butt hurt about Piracy
39:40 A Study shows that chronically ill patients are happier if they give up hope
47:00 BorderLands and Other Games
52:10 Fail Of The Week: Blockbuster employee stabs self to skip work
59:00 Maine Says Yes to Pot No to Gay Marriage
1:08:10 Break: London Moon Thing (You’ll have to listen to the promo for this one, I forgot where it came from or what it is)
1:09:15 WTF of the Week: ACTA
1:32:05 Outro
1:36:54 End of Show

It’s been too long since I posted my last entry and I wanted to share what I’ve been watching, reading, and listening too. Lets start with the books.

Two weeks or so back I headed out to the local Barnes and Noble to pick up some books off my wishlist. I ended up picking up Infected in paperback by Scott Sigler which I haven’t read but I listened to via podio-book and it was great! I wanted to pick up Contagious too but they’d have had to order it but I don’t get to the Barnes and Noble nearly enough to ask them to order it. I picked up the first two books in the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher. I had heard a lot about them but never got around to reading them. I’ll start on them once I’m done reading Personal Effects: Dark Art by J.C. Hutchins which I have to say is awesome! That’s it for my books. On to what I’ve been watching.

So I know I’m late on this one but I just finished Firefly and Serenity. So now I know what all the outrage was about when it was canceled. The first time I watched it I saw what I thought was the first episode “The Train Job” and not much made sense. It didn’t catch me at that time but the local comic shop owner told me to look up the episode order on wikipedia and give it a second chance. I was happy to see Hulu had them in their correct order and I LOVED the show. I would expect no less from Joss! I am now one of them, you know. the people wishing it would be brought back. Hell I even bought copies of firefly which is a big deal seeing as torrents are so much easier and well.. free.

As for podcasts. Metamor City is officially done for the summer. The story was over quiet a bit ago but Chris was still working on his final Feedback shows which are just as entertaining as the actual story! I’ve been keeping up on J.C. Hutchins’ Personal Effects: Sword of Blood which is the prequel to dark art and it is just as enthralling at the book. Lastly I’ve been keeping up on Down From Ten by J. Daniel Sawyer which I am hooked on.

I’ll probably go a bit more in depth on some of these in future reviews. I also just realized I don’t think I’d done a review on Infected or Contagious which is horrible of me seeing as they’re so awesome. More coming soon! Till then

Okay, so I’ve decided to put another update on here today, wow too in the one day, I must be getting better at this whole social media stuff