Geek of all Trades Episode #23: Harry Potter and the Improbable Jury Pool

In which our illustrious host talks about jury duty and probability in the same segment, plays a Reggae song for the first time (over a year and I never played Reggae before? WTF?), talks about making it onto tvtropes.org, and ask for a little listener feedback on ideas for a new writing related segment.



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Podsafe Music: http://music.podshow.com/

Some sound on this show comes from The Free Sound Project: http://www.freesound.org/

Outro Song; The Oath by Street Sweeper Social Club: http://www.ninja2009.com



Promos:

The Weird Show: http://www.theweirdshow.com

The Gamma Quadrant: http://gammaquadrant.libsyn.com

New World Orders: http://www.edwardgtalbot.com/



Segment Related Links:

CSharp

Visa card surprise: $23,148,855,308,184,500



Paws up: All-pet airline hits skies

Brothel offers discount to cyclists

That Don't Make It Junk lyrics



Also Mentioned on the Show:

L.I.C.C. TVTropes Page

Media Frenzy Podcast

Star Trek No Decent Place to Stand

Geek of all Trades Episode #22: Standing on the iPods of giants

In which our illustrious host celebrates the 1 year anniversary of this show, laments getting beaten to the punch on something, celebrates getting a Parsec nod, is secretly glad he hasn't had any major stories for his Dogma Alert segment for a little while, and gets prompted to talk about Michael Jackson.



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Main Site: http://arkle.silver-gateway.com

Podsafe Music: http://music.podshow.com/

Some sound on this show comes from The Free Sound Project: http://www.freesound.org/

Outro Song; The Oath by Street Sweeper Social Club: http://www.ninja2009.com



Promos:

The Parsec Awards: http://www.parsecawards.com

Cue The Film: http://cuethefilm.blogspot.com

Movie Mantras: http://www.moviemantras.com

French Quarter Hustle: http://crescentcityheat.com/



Segment Related Links:

The Funny Music Project

Beautiful Day lyrics

Need Something? Talk To My Right Ear

Fox steals more than 100 shoes

Why People Believe Invisible Agents Control the

World

Hot chilli grenades



Also Mentioned on the Show:

Social Media Douchebag

Slice of Sci-Fi

The Casting Game

Der Geek

Stret Sweeper Social Club

Planned Parenthood

9 Conservative Myths About Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism

Rocket Propelled Geeks.com

Archangel

Form Letter Rejection Theatre

Geek of all Trades Episode #21: Hey artist? You got a dollar?

In which our illustrious host engages in some Right Wing bashing again (much of which was wiped out by Audacity, dammit all), plays a brilliant speech by the Encaffineated One, and recounts his Rent adventure.



Contact Me:

Voicemail Line: 206.426.5634 or 206-ham-lodge

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MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/arklemknzy

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/arkle

Flixster: http://arkle.flixster.com



Buy my book! http://stores.lulu.com/arkle

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Main Site: http://arkle.silver-gateway.com

Podsafe Music: http://music.podshow.com/

Some sound on this show comes from The Free Sound Project: http://www.freesound.org/

Outro Song; The Oath by Street Sweeper Social Club: http://www.ninja2009.com



Promos:

Guardians: http://www.guardiansnovel.com/

Into The Dark: http://www.computerkingonline.com

C4C Podcast: http://www.c4cpodcast.com



Segment Related Links:

Don't Be A Stranger

Looking like daddy has material rewards

Robot snake is new spy

Support for 'bereaved' architects

Giant pig shot for eating cow at Pilbara cattle station

Light as the Breeze lyrics

Christian group sues for right to burn gay teen novel



Also Mentioned on the Show:

Encaffeinated ONE

Daily Kos

Phil Rossi's Eden

Christiana's Shallow Thoughts

Form Letter Rejection Theatre

The Casting Game

Rent

Personal Effects: Dark Art



Here's the picture I mentioned in the show, comparing the logos for Rent and Personal Effects Dark Art.

Which Crazy Writer Am I?

Brian completed the quiz "Which Crazy Writer Are You?" with the result Thomas Pynchon.

A great, brilliant, blinding enigma of a man comes screaming into the literary world; it has happened before, but there's nothing to compare it to now. Nobody has seen you since sometime in the early 1960s - indeed, you appear to be so adverse to the idea of being photographed that you've been known to jump out of 2nd story Mexico City hotels in order to avoid it. Rumors abound about your whereabouts and your goings-on... and yet you think it's okay to do a guest voice on "The Simpsons"? Is this just a game to you? Dare we look down at the footnotes of the text of the Day? Does a Day need to make sense by Day's end?.

Oh wow. My book is on Amazon.

Well, sort of. You still need to buy it through Lulu sadly. But, you CAN write a review there if you're one of the lucky ones who has read it, and mention where you got it. :-)

Geek of all Trades Video(s) #4(a & 4b): Personal Effects: Dark Art

Geek of all Trades Episode #20: This ex-loser's promise

In which our illustrious host has some announcements regarding segments, opens the floodgates for the Twilight feedback, geeks out about BaltiCon (most podcast name drops ever?), and intros the new outro.



Contact Me:

Voicemail Line: 206.426.5634 or 206-ham-lodge

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Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/arkle

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Buy my book! http://stores.lulu.com/arkle

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Main Site: http://arkle.silver-gateway.com

Podsafe Music: http://music.podshow.com/

Some sound on this show comes from The Free Sound Project: http://www.freesound.org/

Outro Song; The Oath by Street Sweeper Social Club: http://www.ninja2009.com



Promos:

The 2009 Parsec Awards: http://www.parsecawards.com

Heaven Season 5 WAR: http://www.heavennovel.com



Segment Related Links:

Alamantra

New Memory Material May Hold Data For One Billion Years

Counting cells could trigger their own destruction

Residents no longer butt of jokes

Don't get in a flap, it's just a cat with furry wings

All Because of You Lyrics

War room is no place for Bible study

Conservative activists turn to web for traction; denounce gay ‘marraige’



Also Mentioned on the Show:

BaltiCon

Nathan Lowell

The BaltiCon Podcast

Scott Roche

RangerCast

Kim's site

The Weird Show

Metamor City

Escape Pod

Tee Moris

The strip where Junkie May is responsible for my demise

Murder at Avedon Hill

The Murverse

J.C. Hutchins

Evo Terra

Scott Sigler

George Hrab

The site for the guy I bought my sword from

The Funny Music Project

Calls For Cthulhu

Phil Rossi

Jared Axelrod

J.R. Blackwell

Christiana Ellis

Paulette Jaxton

12v Theater

Ninjas vs. Zombies

Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter

They Might Be Giants' Apollo 18

David Moldawer

Jill Sobule

Philippa Ballantine

Blinded By Rainbows

Personal Effects: Dark Art

Nina Kimberly the Merciless

James Patrick Kelly

Brandon Sanderson

The Colbert Gay Marriage Ad Parody

The Agnostic Brothers Podcast

War, Inc.

Sanguisuga

Please spread this around

Why is the so-called "Liberal" media not covering this?

I was going to discuss this on the upcoming episode of Geek of all Trades, but during the process of putting it together I realized the show was already going to run long, so I'm posting it here instead. In lighter new expect a review of Terminator Salvation coming soon.

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Abuse Photos Include Images Of Rape And Sexual Assault: Report

The Pentagon on Thursday denied the Daily Telegraph report that photographs of Iraqi prisoner abuse, whose release U.S. President Obama wants to block, include images of apparent rape and sexual abuse.

Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the newspaper had shown "an inability to get the facts right."

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs also dismissed the report.

"I want to speak generally about some reports I've witnessed over the past few years in the British media. And in some ways, I'm surprised it filtered down," Gibbs said. "Let's just say if I wanted to look up -- if I wanted to read a writeup today of how Manchester United fared last night in the Champion's League cup, I might open up a British newspaper. If I was looking for something that bordered on truthful news, I'm not entirely sure it'd be in the first pack of clips I'd pick up."

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LONDON (AP) -- A former U.S. general said graphic images of rape and torture are among the photos of Iraqi prisoner abuse that President Obama's administration does not want released.

Retired Major Gen. Antonio Taguba, who oversaw the U.S. investigation into the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, told Britain's Daily Telegraph in an article published Wednesday that he agreed with Obama's decision not to release the pictures.

"I am not sure what purpose their release would serve other than a legal one and the consequence would be to imperil our troops, the only protectors of our foreign policy, when we most need them," Taguba was quoted by the Daily Telegraph. "The mere description of these pictures is horrendous enough, take my word for it."

Two Obama administration officials didn't immediately respond to e-mail requests for comment Wednesday night.

The prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib exploded after photos taken by soldiers appeared in 2004.

According to the Telegraph, the new photos depicted much more serious abuses than previously documented.

One photo reportedly showed an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner and another was said to show a male translator raping a male detainee, the Telegraph reported.

It was not immediately clear from the report who had seen the photos or how they might have been obtained.

The Telegraph said the photos relate to 400 cases of alleged abuse between 2001 and 2005 at Abu Ghraib and six other prisons.

The newspaper said the images in the photos were backed up by statements from Taguba's report into prisoner abuses at Abu Ghraib obtained under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act.