Cameron teams up with Gardiner, Alec’s house becomes a crime scene, and we learn someone’s truth about why future Alec sent Liber8 to the present.
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Podcast feeds now available
Audio podcasts are coming from Bureau 42. The master feed (iTunes, RSS) is now available, and will include all audio podcasts, including the two we’ve already done. The first regular podcast goes up one week from today, in the inaugural chapter of our monthly Silver Screen Superman, covering the 12 feature film incarnations of the character and most of the franchise. (Steel is omitted.) That will also have its own feed, as will our podcasts about the films in our Greatest Science Fiction Film Tournament, this fall’s X-Files Retrospective podcast, and more. There is also a feed for Math From Scratch (iTunes, RSS) and we will be introducing feeds for Summer School, Teaching Tidbits and a master education feed as well. Note that the education feeds are in PDF format, which I find works in iTunes but not in the iOS Podcasts app. The audio podcasts work as expected under iOS.
Season’s Greetings from Bureau42!
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Podcast poll results (sort of)
We polled readers last week, and received responses only from the site authors. The final format decisions can be heard in this inaugural podcast, and the listener poll about the second and further TV podcasts can be found here.
The Greatest Science Fiction Film Tournament
Science fiction has been around for centuries, and science fiction has appeared on film since 1902. Many website purport to offer lists of the greatest science fiction films of all time. We’re going to produce the definitive list, with your help. Read on for details.
Podcast Projects for 2013 and beyond
We have not one, not two, but three different podcast projects starting in 2013 and later. Project 3 is the big one that has been teased for months. If you enjoy them, there will be more. Details for all three follow after the break. I’ll be looking for guest hosts for all of them to add a conversation dynamic. If you are interested in guest hosting on one or more, you can email me and let me know.
Teaser – 2013 Special Project
Coming September 2013
SOPA & PIPA & the end of the Internet as we know it
Today is, apparently, the day for protesting the SOPA and PIPA legislation that are wending their way through the US legislation like a pig through the digestive system of a python. (Yes, we know SOPA has been taken off the table for now, but that doesn’t mean it can’t come back, and it would be wishful thinking to belive we’d seen the last of it.)
Since the Bureau is primarily in the business of dissemination of information we’re all very much against such legislation and, while we haven’t actually blacked out our own site (it’s plenty black already, amiright?) we’d like to point out some of the better SOPA/PIPA protests we’ve come across today.
Please add your own examples in the comments. We’ll edit the original article to include any particularly good ones (giving credit where credit is due, of course).*
Wikipedia
Something Positive
Questionable Content
Reddit
Extra Credits
Google Home Page
Wired
Bureau 42 Geek Test – Novels and Movies
Our next geek test is ready. This one is a 40 question combined novel and movie test. The test can be found at http://bit.ly/v3Gxle. As usual, please complete the test only once, and share with friends.
Bureau 42 Geek Test – Comics
The next two Bureau 42 Geek tests are ready, looking at Marvel (http://bit.ly/shJs5i) and DC (http://bit.ly/s2qUO9) comics specifically. Please complete, and by all means, share! As always, using the unique identifiers will help me out. I plan to have 8-10 initial geek test categories, and I will then try to model results on all of them combined. This would be much, much easier if I could connect responses on one test with another. Also, as always, please complete each test only once and to the best of your ability.