The Geek Life #209: “It’s Coming Right For Us!” – Van Gogh, Stork Spy, Apple Announcements, (Microsoft, too, I guess) and more!
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* Video releases
* Lightning Round:
* New Van Gogh painting identified (link [http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_289563/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=jO0GFCHX])
* Stork detained in Egypt as a spy (link [http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_268786/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=KErjmSyX])
* Monument to “god of chaos” appears mysteriously in front of an Oklahoma restaurant (link [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/monument-god-chaos-materializes-front-oklahoma-city-restaurant-article-1.1439431])
* Google has killed YouTube video responses
* Amazon is going to release a free smart phone. Except they aren’t – they outright said they won’t, and even if they did it wouldn’t be free.
* But Amazon does have a new PaperWhite Kindle coming out.
* Kindle Matchbook: Some publishers will let you purchase ebooks of titles you bought in dead tree editions from Amazon for a significant discount: free up to $2.99
* Oyster: Netflix for books, $10 a month to access a 100,000 title library, up to 10 books can be stored off-line
* Even with the release of the XBox One, Microsoft will provide support for the XBox 360 for three more years. XBox One will ship in the States on November 22.
* Microsoft announced a Sept 23 date to announce the new Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 devices. You read that right.
* Microsoft has announced XBox Music now available for Android and iOS. Free for 2 hours a month streaming, $10 a month or $100 a year unlimited without ads.
* Microsoft buys parts of Nokia, but not all of it (link [http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/09/microsoft-buys-nokias-phone-business-for-7-1-billion/])
* Lots of Apple announcements
* DC Comics kills the Batwoman-gets-lesbian-married storyline, and creative team walks off book (link [http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/batwoman-authors-exit-claim-dc-621274])
* We determine the secret ingredient for the first round of Iron Brewer!
Peeks:
* Melissa: Has DC Done Something Stupid Today? [http://hasdcdonesomethingstupidtoday.com/] and Plague, Inc. (App for iPhone and Android)
* Mike: John Scalzi’s This is what a Feminist Looks Like [http://whatever.scalzi.com/2013/08/26/to-the-dudebro-who-thinks-hes-insulting-me-by-calling-me-a-feminist/]
* Richard: Book – The Man From Mars [http://www.amazon.com/The-Man-Mars-Palmers-Amazing/dp/039916054X/]
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