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This season, every episode of OMG focuses on a question that directors really need to answer. OMG is written, produced, narrated and scored by Matt Fullbrook.   TRANSCRIPT: Question #35: What are three things we wish management would explain to us in simpler language? Nothing could be more appropriate than the actual 100% true fact that I wrote the script for this episode while listening to a compilation of Curtis Mayfield's greatest hits. The greatest hits aren't as satisfying as, say, just listening through the album Curtis top to bottom, but still. As for the relevance to this episode, if you know you know. On a similar note, episode 129 of OMG was called “Is Thing Explainer the best management book?” In other words, everywhere you look there are great examples in the world of people communicating complex information and ideas in simple and impactful ways. You won't find many of those examples in materials prepared for boards of directors. Which is fair, I guess. We're conditioned to believe that if we leave out the jargon and exhaustive details then we're probably failing to comply with some arcane rule somewhere. And in some cases that might be true. That said, just receiving all the jargon and exhaustive detail doesn't guarantee that the board will, y'know, get it. I am confident that if your board explores today's question together you will come up with some really useful answers, and everyone will be grateful. For the executives listening, feel free to use Thing Explainer and Curtis Mayfield as inspiration once the board shares their answers.

I find it really interesting, strange even, that some people HATE sci-fi but LOVE fantasy, or vice versa. And lots of other people hate or love both. All this despite the fact that they are simply styles of worlds in which stories are set. I mean a magical hero *should* be just as compelling whether they're flying a spaceship or a dragon, right? But that's not how things work. Style matters. Bland and factual or hilarious and abstract? Long and descriptive or pithy and metaphorical? The fact is that there's no perfect balance that will engage and inspire everyone. And that's really the point I'm trying to make here. Some people in the room will be inspired by wizards, and others by Jedi, and there may be no middle ground. This is pretty closely tied to the information medium piece in episode 152. Even though the idea of learning styles like “visual learners” has been debunked, that doesn't mean that different ways of presenting information won't inspire different people in different ways. Remember in episode 129 when I said Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe might be the best management book ever? What I like about it isn't just that it's got really cool illustrations and simple language (although that's a HUGE part of it). I also like that he takes very serious and complicated stuff and isn't afraid to make it a bit silly. The silliness makes it more accessible to me. For others, it might be a turnoff, maybe because it feels patronizing. For me, though, it's the Goldilocks zone – just right. I learn a lot and have fun at the same time. It's too much to expect that the people sharing information with your board will be gifted storytellers, but I don't think it's unreasonable to step back and ask what the current style or vibe is, and whether trying something a little bit different might help to engage people's attention and imagination.

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Heute behandeln wir eine wahre Nerd-Koryphäe: den Nasa-Robotiker, den Webcomicautoren, den "Thingexplainer", der Fragen beantwortet, die man sich vermutlich selbst nie gefragt hat. Kann man sich von einem Vogel eine Pizza ins Flugzeug liefern lassen? Wie landet man ein Haus? Wie heizt man am besten mit Bananen? Die Antworten auf diese und noch viel mehr skurriler Fragen könnte ihr entweder mühsam auf xkcd.com, in einem seiner Bücher (What if...?, How to, Thing Explainer) zusammensuchen oder aber ihr macht das einzig richtige und hört in unsere neuste Episode der Nerdhalbkugel rein. Nerdy Noise und Quiz sind wie immer auch dabei, also reinhören, abnerden, Spaß haben! Eure Nerdhalbkugel P.S.: Ihr wollt uns Feedback dalassen? Checkt doch mal unseren Instagram-Account @Nerdhalbkugel sowie unsere Website http://www.nerdhalbkugel.com . Auf unserem Internetauftritt findet ihr auch eine detaillierte Statistik zu unserem Quiz. P.P.S.: Ihr wollt auch alle Marvel-Werke in chronologisch richtiger Reihenfolge gucken? Die aktuelle MCU-Timeline findet ihr ebenfalls auf unserer Website: https://www.nerdhalbkugel.com/mcu-timeline/

Heute behandeln wir eine wahre Nerd-Koryphäe: den Nasa-Robotiker, den Webcomicautoren, den "Thingexplainer", der Fragen beantwortet, die man sich vermutlich selbst nie gefragt hat. Kann man sich von einem Vogel eine Pizza ins Flugzeug liefern lassen? Wie landet man ein Haus? Wie heizt man am besten mit Bananen? Die Antworten auf diese und noch viel mehr skurriler Fragen könnte ihr entweder mühsam auf xkcd.com, in einem seiner Bücher (What if...?, How to, Thing Explainer) zusammensuchen oder aber ihr macht das einzig richtige und hört in unsere neuste Episode der Nerdhalbkugel rein. Viel Spaß beim Abnerden wünscht euch Eure Nerdhalbkugel

Randall Munroe visits Google to discuss his book "What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions." The millions of people around the world who read the first "What If?" book still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger. Thank goodness xkcd creator Randall Munroe is here to help. Planning to ride a fire pole from the moon back to Earth? The hardest part is sticking the landing. Hoping to cool the atmosphere by opening everyone's freezer door at the same time? Maybe it's time for a brief introduction to thermodynamics. Want to know what would happen if you rode a helicopter blade, built a billion-story building, made a lava lamp out of lava, or jumped on a geyser as it erupted? Okay, if you insist. But before you go on a cosmic road trip, feed the residents of New York City to a T. rex, or fill every church with bananas, be sure to consult this practical guide for impractical ideas. Unfazed by absurdity, Randall consults the latest research on everything from swing-set physics to airplane-catapult design to clearly and concisely answer his readers' questions. As he consistently demonstrates, you can learn a lot from examining how the world might work in very specific extreme circumstances. This book is filled with bonkers science, boundless curiosity, and Randall's signature stick-figure comics. Randall Munroe is the author of the number one New York Times bestsellers "How To", "What If?", and "Thing Explainer"; the science question-and-answer blog “What If?”; and the popular web comic xkcd. A former NASA roboticist, he left the agency in 2006 to draw comics on the internet full time. Visit http://g.co/TalksAtGoogle/WhatIf to watch the video.

I think the lessons in Randall Munroe's "Thing Explainer" are more important to effective management than any other book I've read.   SCRIPT To be honest, I *much* prefer reading fiction to reading management or leadership books. I'm leaning even further in that direction the more I disagree with my past self. Like, I have written – or caused other people to write – so much stuff about corporate governance over the years that I now believe completely misses the point. I sometimes wonder how authors who contribute to the archives of management literature feel when they look back at their publications even like 2 years later. Do they disagree with themselves as much as I do? Anyway, I'm here to make a book recommendation – one I can't believe I haven't made yet on OMG. Please have a look at Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe. He's got a few other books since then including a brand new one that I'm sure he'd much rather a plug for, but I stand by my position. Each page of Thing Explainer has a detailed illustration kinda like a blueprint or patent drawing of some super complex or interesting thing like a nuclear reactor or a submarine and explanations of how every part of that thing works using only the 1000 most common words in the English language. And in a couple of minutes, you've learned how some crazy complicated thing works without learning any new language, and while having lots of fun. It's probably already obvious why I think Thing Explainer is an amazing management book, but just in case: presenting complex ideas in simple words, while also having some fun, is both possible and a better way to communicate than most managers do. Think of this book as an illustration of what managers COULD be doing.

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Discovering the specific breed of a cat by swabbing its cheek may seem like a fun curiosity, but that knowledge may have long-term effects. This week, Shawn & Ivan chat with Dr. Chris Menges of Basepaws about genetic testing and applying it in-clinic. Chris recommends Thing Explainer by Randall Monroe (amzn.to/31gVFQc). Learn more about Chris at basepaws.com.

AI is everywhere. It powers the autocorrect function of your iPhone, helps Google Translate understand the complexity of language, and interprets your behaviour to decide which of your friends' Facebook posts you most want to see. In the coming years, it'll perform medical diagnoses and drive your car - and maybe even help our authors write the first lines of their novels. But how does it actually work? Scientist and engineer, Janelle Shane, is the go-to contributor about computer science for the New York Times, Slate, and the New Yorker. Through her hilarious experiments, real-world examples, and illuminating cartoons, she explains how AI understands our world, and what it gets wrong. More than just a working knowledge of AI, she hands readers the tools to be skeptical about claims of a smarter future. A comprehensive study of the cutting-edge technology that will soon power our world, You Look Like a Thing and I Love You is an accessible and hilarious exploration of the future of technology and society. It's Astrophysics for People In a Hurry meets Thing Explainer: an approachable guide to a fascinating scientific topic, presented with clarity, levity, and brevity by an expert in the field with a powerful and growing platform.

How To [starts at 4:30] Our guest for this episode is Randall Munroe, perhaps best known for his comic xkcd, and author of the books “What If” and “Thing Explainer”.  Randall has figured out how to do many things, so he wrote a new book appropriately called "How To”, which promises to provide absurd scientific advice for common real world problems.  Absurd?  Sometimes. (well, often actually)  Amusing and informative?  Definitely.  Have you ever wanted to build a lava moat?  Have you ever wondered what kind of gas mileage  your house would get on the highway?  What are the energy requirements and logistics of boiling vs. freezing a river?  And what about landing an airplane on a submarine?  All of those questions and more (pirates!) are addressed in "How To", and we talk about some of them in  this episode of How on Earth. Host, Producer, Engineer: Joel Parker Listen to the show:

Randall Munroe is the creator of the website xkcd.com and the author of the books What If? , Thing Explainer , and his latest, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems .

Dean and Anna spend time with Randall Munroe , author of How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems and creator of xkcd.com .

Kaytee is recording with a special guest this week, her little brother! Steven is a prolific reader, working the night shift, and has big book opinions. You’ll hear a “bookish moment of the week” from each of us: vacation reading choices, and an email from a family member. Next, we discuss our current reads for the week. We are each sharing three books we’ve read recently, and they are all over the map! We’’ll move on to a short Slow But Steady update, along with an update from a couple listeners with regard to their choices. For our deep dive this week, we are poking around in Steven’s reading life. We’ll learn about when he developed his love for reading, how he balances reading and school, and if he has any controversial opinions regarding the reading life. Finally, this week, we are Pressing Books Into Your Hands. We’ve got a great series of books for people who want to know all the things, as well as a childhood favorite that isn’t to be overlooked. As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down!  . . . . . 1:31 - Vacationland by John Hodgeman 2:58 - Walkable City by Jeff Speck 3:57 - Sue Grafton novels 5:07 - Mind if I Order the Cheeseburger? by Sherry F. Colb 7:29 - The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 Years Old by Hendrik Groen 8:33 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman 9:16 - On the Bright Side: The New Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 85 Years Old by Hendrik Groen 9:46 - Timeline by Michael Crichton 9:54 - Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton 9:59 - Lost World by Michael Crichton 10:07 - Congo by Michael Crichton 11:41 - The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich 11:53 - Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder 12:24 - Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder 14:29 - Harry Potter by JK Rowling 15:34 - Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale and How a 19th Century Admiral Turned Science Into Poetry by Scott Huler 18:00 - The Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes 21:59 - The Know-It-All by AJ Jacobs 23:03 - North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell 23:49 - Anne of Avonlea by LM Montgomery 23:55 - Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery 24:01 - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 24:49 - On Writing by Stephen King 25:00 - Notes From a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwauchie 25:08 - Moby Dick by Herman Melville 25:12 - Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 25:51 - Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens 26:54 - The Essential Calvin and Hobbes Treasury by Bill Watterson 27:35 - Animal Farm by George Orwell 27:39 - A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 30:02 - Constantly Calibrating podcast 38:49 - What If by Randall Munroe 38:50 - Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe 38:58 - How To by Randall Munroe 42:07 - Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein 43:59 - The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein *Please note that all book titles linked above are Amazon affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. Thanks for your support!* 

I’m not usually a fanboy on this podcast, but this episode is the exception. I love the web-comic XKCD. I’ve had prints of it hanging in my house for years. It’s nerdy and humane, curious and kind. And every so often, it’s explosively, crazily creative, in ways that leave me floored. Like the Hugo-award winning “Time,” a 3,099 frame animation that unspooled every hour for over four months. Or the book Thing Explainer, which used only the 1,000 most common words in the English language to explain some of the hardest ideas in the world. XKCD is the work of one person, Randall Munroe, and I’ve wanted to talk with him for years. Now he’s out with a new book, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, and I got my chance. The episode covers: - The simple places Munroe draws inspiration for his ideas - The fact that scientists still don’t know how lightning works or why ice is slippery - How pedantry kills creativity - Why aliens probably build suspension bridges like we do - The superpower of refusing to be embarrassed by what you don’t know - How to retain a sense of wonder as you age - Whether the water of Niagra Falls can fit through a straw - How to dig a hole - How a priest in 1590 intuited dozens of scientific discoveries centuries before they were officially discovered - And, most importantly, the best book recommendations I think I’ve ever heard on the show This one was a pleasure. References: Jimmy Carter's Voyager letter Book recommendations: Natural and Moral History of the Indies by José de Acosta Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record by Carl Sagan (and others) Want to contact the show? Reach out at ezrakleinshow@vox.com News comes at you fast. Join us at the end of your day to understand it. Subscribe to Today, Explained Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing Explainer. For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole. Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if you're a baby boomer or a millennial by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe doesn't just make things difficult for himself and his listeners. As he did so brilliantly in What If?, he invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible. How To is a delightfully mind-bending way to better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day.

Plain language can make your speech a lot clearer, and allow your ideas and thinking to shine through. But there are times when speechwriters and speakers want to reach for the more complex words... and even use (gasp!) jargon. Music: “Upbeat” by Jon Luc Hefferman, used under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license. Links: The wonderful Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe Thing Explainer at Amazon.com (affiliate link) Photo: Raphael Schaller on Unsplash

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Panel: Joe  Amy  Charles    Special Guests:  Eric Simmons  Albert Pai In this episode, JavaScript Jabbers talk to Eric Simmons and Albert Pai, the co-founder of thinkster.io, where their team teaches the bleeding edge of javascript technology’s various frameworks and backend. Also, with the recent creation of Stalkblitz, which is the center topic of today discussion.  Stackblitz it an online VS Code IDE for Angular, React, and a few more others are supported. This is designed to run web pack and vs code inside your browser at blazing fast speeds. Eric and Albert dive into the many different advantages and services available by StackBlitz and thinker.io.  In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Similarities  and differences to Heroku  System JS  Stacklets   Testing and creating an in-browser system file system Creating a type of VS Code experience, Working Off Line  Updating of the Stacklets Deployment tools or exporting  Hot Reloading Integrated terminals Monaco Language Services  How do you architect this implementation  The innovation of browsers Guy Bedford  Financing vs. Chipotle Burritos  Will this product in the future cost money Links thinkster.io https://medium.com/@ericsimons/stackblitz-online-vs-code-ide-for-angular-react-7d09348497f4 @stackblitz  stackblitz.com   Picks Amy Promises Series by Andrew Del Prete Crossfit  Joe Wholesome Meme Sara Cooper Charles Pivotal Tracker  MatterMost  asana.com Zapier Eric  realworld.io  David East  Albert  thinkster.io Thing Explainer

Panel: Joe  Amy  Charles    Special Guests:  Eric Simmons  Albert Pai In this episode, JavaScript Jabbers talk to Eric Simmons and Albert Pai, the co-founder of thinkster.io, where their team teaches the bleeding edge of javascript technology’s various frameworks and backend. Also, with the recent creation of Stalkblitz, which is the center topic of today discussion.  Stackblitz it an online VS Code IDE for Angular, React, and a few more others are supported. This is designed to run web pack and vs code inside your browser at blazing fast speeds. Eric and Albert dive into the many different advantages and services available by StackBlitz and thinker.io.  In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Similarities  and differences to Heroku  System JS  Stacklets   Testing and creating an in-browser system file system Creating a type of VS Code experience, Working Off Line  Updating of the Stacklets Deployment tools or exporting  Hot Reloading Integrated terminals Monaco Language Services  How do you architect this implementation  The innovation of browsers Guy Bedford  Financing vs. Chipotle Burritos  Will this product in the future cost money Links thinkster.io https://medium.com/@ericsimons/stackblitz-online-vs-code-ide-for-angular-react-7d09348497f4 @stackblitz  stackblitz.com   Picks Amy Promises Series by Andrew Del Prete Crossfit  Joe Wholesome Meme Sara Cooper Charles Pivotal Tracker  MatterMost  asana.com Zapier Eric  realworld.io  David East  Albert  thinkster.io Thing Explainer

Panel: Joe  Amy  Charles    Special Guests:  Eric Simmons  Albert Pai In this episode, JavaScript Jabbers talk to Eric Simmons and Albert Pai, the co-founder of thinkster.io, where their team teaches the bleeding edge of javascript technology’s various frameworks and backend. Also, with the recent creation of Stalkblitz, which is the center topic of today discussion.  Stackblitz it an online VS Code IDE for Angular, React, and a few more others are supported. This is designed to run web pack and vs code inside your browser at blazing fast speeds. Eric and Albert dive into the many different advantages and services available by StackBlitz and thinker.io.  In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Similarities  and differences to Heroku  System JS  Stacklets   Testing and creating an in-browser system file system Creating a type of VS Code experience, Working Off Line  Updating of the Stacklets Deployment tools or exporting  Hot Reloading Integrated terminals Monaco Language Services  How do you architect this implementation  The innovation of browsers Guy Bedford  Financing vs. Chipotle Burritos  Will this product in the future cost money Links thinkster.io https://medium.com/@ericsimons/stackblitz-online-vs-code-ide-for-angular-react-7d09348497f4 @stackblitz  stackblitz.com   Picks Amy Promises Series by Andrew Del Prete Crossfit  Joe Wholesome Meme Sara Cooper Charles Pivotal Tracker  MatterMost  asana.com Zapier Eric  realworld.io  David East  Albert  thinkster.io Thing Explainer

Is lingo good or bad? Links Mentioned: Slingo Judge John Hodgman Thing Explainer Up Goer Five Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast Linguistic relativity Heavy Metal Historian

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This month we discuss Thing explainer by Randall Munroe. In this book the xkcd creator attempts to explain things as diverse as the International Space Station and the human body, using only the most common ten hundred words in the English language ('thousand' is not one of those words). See if you can guess the objects from the extracts we read out and hear about our experiences of imposing the rules on our own writing. Finally, take up our challenge and have a go yourself using thexkcd simple writer.  You can read our review of Thing explainer here, and find all our book reviews here. We want to include you, the Chemistry World reader, in the conversation so join us next month when we’ll be discussing Gaia Vince's Adventures in the Anthropocene. Tweet your thoughts to @ChemistryWorld, or use the hashtag #BookClubCW and we’ll endeavour to include your opinions (or questions) on the podcast.

Do you have a document in your business that explains things? Do you use complex language when explaining things? Can you make things simpler for your team?

Topics: Scientists boost life span of mice by 25% by deleting defective cells; Playboy magazine will no longer contain photos of naked women; Bacteria in men's beards found to be beneficial; a book (Thing Explainer by Randal Munroe) which explains complicated things using only the 1,000 most common words; McDonald's Kale Salad has more fat than their Double Big Mac; Amazon's Echo Speaker is a voice activated artificially intelligent personal assistant--well, sort of; and the "Swab and Send" project at University College London. [Listener email:] from Extropia DaSilva (Her Blog) Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the February 10, 2015 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 29 minutes] Stephen Euin Cobb has interviewed over 350 people for his work as an author, futurist, magazine writer, ghostwriter, and award-winning podcaster. A contributing editor for Space and Time Magazine; he has also been a regular contributor for Robot, H+, Grim Couture and Port Iris magazines; and he spent three years as a columnist and contributing editor for Jim Baen's Universe Magazine. For the last nine years he has produced a weekly podcast, The Future And You, which explores (through interviews, panel discussions and commentary) all the ways the future will be different from today. He is an artist, essayist, game designer, transhumanist, and is on the Advisory Board of The Lifeboat Foundation. Stephen is the author of an ebook about the future entitled: Indistinguishable from Magic: Predictions of Revolutionary Future Science.

CLEO magazine is closing, Penthouse drops print magazines, copyediting and grammar mistakes to avoid, the book The Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe, and Allison’s top blog posts about blogging. Meet journalist-turned-author Holly Seddon, whose new book is the psychological thriller Try Not to Breathe. Also: the clever note taking app Notability, when to pitch to magazines, and more! Read the show notes.  Connect with Valerie, Allison and listeners in the podcast community on Facebook Visit WritersCentre.com.au | AllisonTait.com | ValerieKhoo.com

CLEO magazine is closing, Penthouse drops print magazines, copyediting and grammar mistakes to avoid, the book The Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe, and Allison’s top blog posts about blogging. Meet journalist-turned-author Holly Seddon, whose new book is the psychological thriller Try Not to Breathe. Also: the clever note taking app Notability, when to pitch to magazines, and more! Read the show notes.  Connect with Valerie, Allison and listeners in the podcast community on Facebook Visit WritersCentre.com.au | AllisonTait.com | ValerieKhoo.com

Our book club podcast considers simple language in science as we discuss Randall Munroe's new book, Thing explainer.

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Welcome back to Ping! We talk about the return of robot combat return to television, we chat about a one-way ticket to Mars on the space desk, and more stories that 'softies are pinging each other about...[00:46] Build and Ignite On Demand [01:53] Last show...[04:14] Meet Microsoft Hyperlapse, Life moves at its own pace. With Microsoft Hyperlapse, your videos don’t have to, Ping 219 [06:03] Xbox One April System Update: Game Hub Links, What’s On and More Now Available, Xbox One to Finally Get Miracast Support [07:33] With addition of FIFA 15, EA Access now offers all the latest EA Sports games with subscription [08:05] Xbox One Owners Can Play Madden NFL 16 Before Everyone [09:31] Taking smartphone photography to the next level [12:35] Up Goer Five, Thing Explainer [14:14] ManCan - Put a Brewery In Your Fridge, Not a Growler[17:10] Microsoft Campus Tours - Inside the Channel 9 StudioQuestion (Well more of a request) of the week: [18:32] Please post your safe for work photos you've taken with your Lumia or other Windows DeviceChat with us throughout the week using #PingShow on TwitterLike us on Facebook http://facebook.com/ThePingShowMail us:The Ping Show c/o Channel 9, Bldg 20 One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052@MarkDeFalco @RicksterCDN