On February 29, 2008 Chuck Tomasi and Kreg Steppe, FarPoint Media podcasters, have announced their candidacy for the job of PodPresident.

Any PodPresident serves for a term of one year and their responsibilities include bringing stability and direction to the podosphere, listening to needs of the community, and bring to light issues that need addressing. More information on the position can be found at the PodPresident website.

Anchor man Sir Kit Borde from Channel 42 will keep everyone up to date with details on the start of this great race.

For more information and calendar of events, visit PodPresident.com and subscribe to the podcast feed.

Election Calendar

Also, Voice your Opinions and concerns on issues you would like the candidates to address at 206.495.0784

Press Release

Adam Pinilla has joined FarPoint Media’s Fanboy Smackdown podcast as a new co-host, joining current show hosts Tony Mast and Tony #2. Pinilla joins the show for episode #049.

We are thrilled that Adam has joined the team and brings his unique style and enthusiasm to the program. He will bring his experience as a former host of the Fear the Boot gaming podcast to the show as well as his skills as a software engineer.

Beginning Friday, February 22, 2008, Technorama will begin a series of three episodes recorded from the Computer History Museum in Mountain View California.

Chuck and Kreg don’t just take you on a stroll down memory lane; they explore all of this landmark building’s twists and turns. They also challenge their docent, Stan Sieler, who rises to the occasion. You’ll get the facts, along with some interesting reactions from the hosts, on everything from the Abacus to video games, bicycle computers to Cray supercomputers.

You can join them as they explore the “back room” and find out about the history of the museum itself. You’ve never heard an audio tour quite like this.

Technorama to air Interview with Physicist Dr. Michio Kaku March 11, 2008.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel through time? Or what if you could become invisible? Or better yet, move things with your mind? Before Micho Kaku became a world renowned theoretical physicist, he was just a curious child and these were the types of questions that plagued him throughout his adolescence. The possibilities of time travel, force fields, parallel universes and the like have one thing in common; they have all been deemed impossible, at least for now. One hundred years ago the same was thought about lasers, televisions and walking on the moon and now these are all common place. So what exactly can we expect to see?

Chuck and Kreg talk in depth to author and co-founder of the String Field Theory, Dr. Michio Kaku talked about these items and others found in his latest book “Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, and Time Travel.” Join them as they explore to what extent technologies and devices deemed equally impossible today might become commonplace in the future.

You can find the interview at the Technorama site (www.chuckchat.com/technorama) on March 11, 2008.

Then be sure to tune in to Slice of SciFi on Saturday, March 15 for show #152 as Mike, Summer and Brian interview Dr. Kaku. That particular interview will also be repeated on Monday, March 17, 2008 on the Slice of SciFi XM-Satellite Radio show on The Sonic Channel.

FarPoint Media is happy to announce DragonHearth Production’s first show of 2008: Part One of a series of interviews with Richard Garriott (’Lord British’ to Ultima and Tabula Rasa fans) direct from Star City, Russia. Garriott talks about his training and preparation for his upcoming spaceflight aboard Soyuz TMA-13 to the International Space Station this coming October.

DragonHearth will also be doing additional interviews just before the launch and follow ups
after his return.

The first part of our interview is now LIVE.

FarPoint Media CTO, supervising producer and co-host Summer Brooks reads “Going Through Changes,” written by Pat Murphy in 1992.

To listen to this audio production visit STARSHIP SOFA.com.

Some friends of FarPoint Media’s own Tony Mast (Tony’s Losing It) at the Fear the Boot podcast are hosting a local gaming Con called Fear the Con, on March 8, 2008.

Tony will be attending the Con and will be handing out fresh fruit to the gamers, movie watchers, and anyone else in attendance.

If this site looks like it’s gone through a miniature timewarp, that’s because in a way it has. A database hickup, and the need to restore from a backup, have thrown the site back to late September for the moment.

We’re working on bringing everything back up to date, and on acquiring extra food for the hamsters whose wheels are supposed to keep pumping our data smoothly through the tubes that make up the internet.

In addition to offering its listeners their regular story for the month of, in December, Variant Frequencies has prepared a special holiday surprise for fans of the two-time Parsec-nominated FAILED CITIES MONOLOGUES, as well as all those who’ve supported the podcast in the past year. We are proud to present THE FAILED CITIES: HATH A DARKNESS, an exclusive 10,000-word eChapbook written by Matt Wallace and produced by Variant Frequencies.

For the first time since concluding his groundbreaking podcast fiction saga, Matt Wallace returns to the warped twin worlds he created with an all-new Failed Cities story. Featuring the characters that drove the original audio epic, and told, as always, in their own voices, THE FAILED CITIES: HATH A DARKNESS brings this unique storytelling style to the page for the first time, enhanced with original illustrations by Rick Stringer.

About THE FAILED CITIES: HATH A DARKNESS . . .

To some the number 99 represents the many names of God. But as a black snowfall blankets the Failed Cities on Christmas Eve, the arrival of 99 mysterious steel chambers is the catalyst that sets a series of far from blessed events in motion. From bullets and bata sticks to a life-and-death hostage situation to high-speed battles up switchback mountain roads, eight people become links in a deadly chain that will either tether innocent lives to safety or strangle any hope for their future. And as each part of the story unfolds, we learn that above all things, Christmas in the Failed Cities is a feverishly struck balance between the constant threat of violence and the briefest, most bittersweet moments of joy.

THE FAILED CITIES: HATH A DARKNESS by Matt Wallace is a freely distributed .PDF produced and illustrated by Rick Stringer, and available exclusively from Variant Frequencies. We’d like to encourage all our listeners to download, print, enjoy, and pass along this unique piece of the Failed Cities universe as a thank you for your continued support and enthusiastic participation in our podcast.

And don’t forget to revisit THE FAILED CITIES MONOLOGUES, collected in its entirety on Podiobooks.com.
Happy Holidays from the entire crew of Variant Frequencies!

Go to this Link: http://www.variantfrequencies.com/media/FCM-HathADarkness.pdf

Paramount Home Entertainment has announced FarPoint Media’s own Tracy Hickman and his animated film “Dragonlance” which features the voices of Kiefer Sutherland (”24″), Lucy Lawless (”Battlestar Galactica”), and Michael Rosenbaum (”Smallville”).

This feature length Dungeons & Dragons tale will be available to own beginning the January 15, 2008.

To find out more about this wonderful feature film, listen to our recent interview with Tracy.