Recent Shows

The Olympics experienced a blue screen of death, the fireworks show was partly computer-generated, and Speedo owns swimming. The Geeks discuss the changes in the Olympic Games since the early days where all athletes competed in their birthday suits.

The Geeks take calls and cover the Week in Geek News covering a new giant virus, iPhone waste of money and much more.

The Geeks welcome writer David Weber, author of the popular and bestselling Honor Harrington novels. Weber joins the geeks to discuss his latest novel 'By Schism Rent Asunder', the sequel to last year's bestseller 'Off Armageddon Reef'. These novels form a new series that sees a nearly destroyed humanity driven from home to a new colony, where they are forced to give up scientific inquiry, technology, and higher mathematics in an attempt to avoid detection by a an aggressive alien race known as the Gbaba. Weber is a master of science fiction, and has deftly handled future technologies and physics in the worlds and universes he creates. Rick Kleffel of The Agony Column will also be in the studio.

Charles Stross' most recent book "Saturn's Children, a Space Opera" explores a human-lacking future society inhabited solely by emotionally complex robots. Rick Kleffel invited Geeks Sean Cleveland and Lyle Troxell to chat with Charles Stross on KUSP's Talk of the Bay, and we thought it would make a great bonus-episode of GeekSpeak.

The Geeks discuss poor Internet connectivity in rural areas, magic tricks helping user interface design, the latest Craigslist debacle, Googlepedia, and breaking the new iPhone 2.0. The geeks also take calls from listeners.

Tommy Olsson, co-Author of The Ultimate CSS Reference joins the Geeks to chat about web development. We will also cover the Week in Geek News and take your calls with questions and comments about technology.

The Geeks speak with Jay Lake in the studio about his new book 'Escapement', the sequel to his hit 'Mainspring'. These books envision a steampunk-esque alternative 19th century Earth complete with gears and a mainspring hidden at its center. You see, Lake's universe is actually an enormous clockwork. The Geeks, joined by Rick Kleffel of The Agony Column, discuss this unique universe and the science behind it. (picture © 2006 M. Lake)

This episode of GeekSpeak is a re-airing of Tuesday June 10th's episode of Talk of the Bay. Rick Kleffel hosted this discussion with William Gibson, Sean Cleveland and Lyle Troxell about Spook Country, William's most recent book.

There are pictures of water ice on Mars, Ben has a new bike, breach notification laws are not so effective, and maybe we can stop telecom immunity.

The Geeks welcome Rick Kleffel to the show to discuss a handful of the latest science fiction books, including 'In War Times' by Kathleen Ann Goonan. Please read 'In War Times', and then call or email during the show to add to the discussion. Book recommendations will also be discussed.

Kathleen Ann Goonan's 'In War Times' - A review of the book by Rick Kleffel

NASA is launching a probe to the Sun and a satellite to probe the secrets of super-massive black holes outside our own galaxy. This and more including rootkit woes and supercomputers on this week's episode of Geek Speak.

The Geeks cover some news including: Firefox goes for world record, virtual strip searches, oil sucking nano paper and much more.

IDEs allow quicker and easier development of applications, but how does one go about creating a good IDE? Guest David Intersimone from CodeGear will chat with the Geeks about making software for software development.

Stanford instructor and regular Geek Ben Jaffe informs us about ultrasound and infra-sound. And we all cover the Week in GeekNews.

Steven Novella, host of The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe, joins the Geeks to talk about the importance of skeptical thought, the scientific method, and as an example the absurdity of Homeopathy. The Geeks also cover some GeekNews.

Ben's sweet infatuation with Earth, Paris privacy issues, the BBC hates knitters, to sonic-boom or not to sonic-boom, and other geek news items.

Also this episode the Geeks ask a lot of questions. "We just don't know that much."

Patrick Nugent product manager of Toast, a CD and DVD authoring and burning software package from Roxio will join special host Timothy Jordan and the Geeks to talk about CD and DVD creation on the Macintosh operating system.

The third annual Maker Faire is coming to the San Mateo County Fairgrounds. It was a blast last year, and this one will be packed with even more. Dale Dougherty joins the Geeks to chat about Make Magazine, Craft Magazine and this wonderful faire.

DHS and the finer points of neologisms like "fob," today on Geek Speak with Ben, Miles, Alex, and Lyle.

GeekNews: NASA science website, 99$ Computer, College Board drops CS AP test, commercial free YouTube for politics, instant backup band, speed of hurricanes by sound, and even more news. Plus, the Geeks take calls with questions and comments about technology.