These days, internet celebrity Danny is renowned for his civil liberties campaigning (and for being very funny), but many listeners will recall that he used to edit the excellent weekly geek newsletter NTK with Dave Green, who now does the snacks segment on our show!
In this episode, the old team reminisce about writing for geeks in the early days of the internet, and we find out what Danny's been up to since.
Posted: July 6th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Geeky fun beyond your, er, quite wild dreams this week as we chat with the utterly delightful Thom and Myk from the Thomyk podcast about comics, Lego, D&D, dice, and of course podcasting.
Snack seer Dave Green divines the most unexpected drinks of the summer, including at least one that's so unexpected, it's not even a drink.
Links: Thomyk podcast | Thom on Twitter | Myk on Twitter | Thom's Dick Cheney lego scene on Boing Boing | Dave's Snackspot | Buy this podcast on cassette or just donate to the cause.
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Posted: July 1st, 2010 | 3,782 Comments »
...from the extra-good Thomyk podcast of course.
Posted: June 29th, 2010 | 6 Comments »
If you like games you probably already know about games wizard Dan Hon, and even if you don't know him you're bound to have come across his work. Together with his brother Adrian, Dan co-founded Six to Start, the award-winning games company behind teen ARG Smokescreen and involved with loads of other fun stuff too, e.g Misfits, We Tell Stories and of course Wired (they're also in the mag's top 100). Roo gets the scoop on Dan's next move, and finds out what he really thinks about the term ARG in this geektastic chat.
While the boys hold their cleverness summit in Southampton, Leila attends 
the Vintage Computer Festival at the National Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park and returns armed with an interview, a heart that aches for Acorn, and at least 48K of evocative stings. Around the World in 80 Snacks continues with some mystifying US offerings courtesy of our jetsetting guest, and we cautiously unwrap - as ever - under the expert supervision of Dave.
Links: Six to Start | Dan's blog | Dan on Twitter | The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley | Leila's Vintage Computer Museum Video | Official site for R3play in Blackpool | Dave's site Snackspot | Buy a tape of this episode to support the SRS pension fund.
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Posted: June 24th, 2010 | 4,531 Comments »
Your hosts
catch up after a couple of weeks away from SRS Towers, in this chat-packed reunion episode. Learn how Roo coped with a physical illness at the risk of inducing a mental one by binge-eating a sci-fi box-set with his eye-mouth. Meanwhile, Leila finds a way of combining her new walkie talkies with her fridge to conti
nue our audio spin-off of Roo's In The Fridge project.
And is your Dad a massive nerd? Of course he is! Sporting one of the best accents we've had on the show so far, Wired.co.uk's Geek Dad contributor Chris Hinton shares some suggestions for Father's Day.
Plus Leila and Dave get wined, dined and strip-searched at Heathrow Terminal 5, and we all head to a park to sample snacks themed on the World Cup. Score!
Links: Geek Dad | Chris's site Geek Speak | Chris on Twitter | Caffeinated soap | Alien vs Predator Total Destruction box-set | In The Fridge (Flickr) | Dave's Snackspot site | Heathrow airport | Buy this episode on audio cassette and create more work for us for your own sick amusement.
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Posted: June 17th, 2010 | 4,027 Comments »
A series of unfortunate events have separated your hosts for a couple of weeks, but you can see us here, reunited for the first time in a while and catching up on what we've been doing since we last met (mainly watching back-to-back sci-fi films and finding secret customs rooms at Heathrow). Tune in on Thursday for the full, fun-stuffed episode, and in the meantime here's the main video of Dave & Leila's Heathrow tour.
Posted: June 15th, 2010 | 4 Comments »
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