Show: The Sound of Young America Guests: Simon Pegg
Simon Pegg joins us to talk about nerd rants, his philosophy on zombies, and his close-knit relationship with colloborator and friend Nick Frost.
He’s best known as the actor, writer, and director whose guiding hands have been involved in British TV comedy Spaced and films Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and Paul.
His new memoir follows his own journey as the nerdy everyman; Nerd Do Well: A Small Boy’s Journey to Becoming a Big Kid is out now.
A podcast interview with James Gleick.
Subjects Discussed: Claude Shannon, the origin of the byte, Charles Babbage and relay switches, measuring information beyond the telegraph, bit storage capacity, being right about data measurement, “A Mathematical Theory of Communication,” information overload, TS Eliot’s The Rock, email warnings in 1982, information compression, George Boole’s symbolic logic, information overload, Ada Lovelace and Babbage, James Waldegrave’s November 13, 1713 letter providing the first minimax solution to the two person game Le Her, game theory, Lovelace’s mathematical aptitude, the difficulties of being too scientifically ambitious, connecting pegs to abstraction, Norbert Wiener and cybernetics, Wiener’s contribution to information theory, Wiener vs. Shannon, mathematical formulas to solve games, Ada Lovelace’s clandestine contributions, Luigi Menabrea, a view of machines beyond number crunching, entropy, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, James Clerk Maxwell’s view of disorder as entropy’s essential quality, dissipated energy within information, Kolmogorov’s algorithms and complexity, links between material information and perceived information, molecular disorder, connections between disorganization and physics in the 19th century, extraneous information, Thomas Kuhn’s paradigm shifts, Richard Dawkins’s defense of dyslexia as a selfish genetic quality, new science replacing the old in information theory, the English language’s redundant characters, codebreaking, Shannon’s scientific measurements of linguistic redundancy, the likelihood of words and letters appearing after previous words and letters, Bertrand Russell’s liar’s paradox and Kurt Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem, Gregory Chaitin and algorithmic information theory, Alan Turing, uniting Pierre-Simon Laplace and Wikipedia, extreme Newtonianism, and the ideal of perfect knowledge.
Ethan Marcotte talks with Dan Benjamin about writing, design, creativity, being an entrepreneur vs. a corporate stooge, responsive web design, and more.
Last episode of the year! Cory has a new project that is awesome, you should check it out.
ISBW #175
01:04 State of the Mur: cold, but productive. Working on YA novel, trying to avoid too much multi-tasking of projects. Trying to manage expectations. 03:09 Promo: Scott Sigler’s Galactic Football League series on sale for the holidays with coupon code “MUR” 04:12 Holidays & the best gifts for the writers in your lives: TIME and SUPPORT.* Recommended books: Beginnings, Middles, and Ends, and 45 Master Characters. Craft reminder: you need conflict. Don’t protect your characters. ”What we call adventure in fiction would be trauma in real life.” 22:09 Promo: Telegraph Connect‘s Primogeniture Anthology 23:11 Interview: Cory Doctorow New book: With A Little Help A day in the life of Cory Doctorow What might be next Credits: Producer: Patrick Hester, Show notes writer: Carrie Kei Heim Binas, Theme song: John Anealio
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Just over 30 years ago, an Englishman named Christopher Alexander tried to revolutionize architecture. In A Pattern Language, Alexander told architects and planners to design homes on emotional and spiritual principles – not on traffic flow. The revolution didn’t quite come. But the book had a surprising influence on another group of experts: the computer scientists who were just beginning to shape the Internet. Produced by Lu Olkowski. (Originally aired: August 15, 2008)
http://www.studio360.org/2011/apr/01/christopher-alexander-pattern-language/
Maybe you haven’t heard of Guy Kawasaki. I suppose it’s possible – you might have been living under a rock for the last couple of decades. Maybe you haven’t heard of The Art of the Start, or Reality Check, or Alltop.com, or Garage Technology Ventures. But odds are that you have. What you might not know, though, is that he’s got a new book out today, called Enchantment. It’s a good book – at least that’s what Sir Richard Branson thinks. And so does Steve Wosniak, Robert Scoble, Bob Cialdini, Phil Zimbardo, and lots of other impressive names that are on the back cover. Oh, and so do I. I read the review copy that Guy sent me, and liked it enough to chase him down for an interview (I didn’t have to chase very hard – he’s a really nice Guy).
Huffduffed from http://www.firepolemarketing.com/blog/2011/03/08/an-enchanting-interview-with-guy-kawasaki/
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Why Bother? was a Talkback production for BBC Radio 3, consisting of five 10-minute long radio interviews between Chris Morris and Peter Cook’s character Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling, recorded in late 1993 and originally broadcast from 10 January – 14 January 1994.
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Why Bother? was a Talkback production for BBC Radio 3, consisting of five 10-minute long radio interviews between Chris Morris and Peter Cook’s character Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling, recorded in late 1993 and originally broadcast from 10 January – 14 January 1994.
Tagged with chris morris peter cook episode 4 bbc interview why bother?
Why Bother? was a Talkback production for BBC Radio 3, consisting of five 10-minute long radio interviews between Chris Morris and Peter Cook’s character Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling, recorded in late 1993 and originally broadcast from 10 January – 14 January 1994.
Tagged with episode3 chris morris peter cook bbc interview
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