Welcome to the inaugural episode of Product Management Meets Pop Culture: The Podcast!

In this companion piece to the world-famous PMMPC blog, we’ll be looking at the hottest product management topics buzzing around the interwebs, comics, TV, and more — all in 10 minutes or less.

This week’s topics: Outsourcing Product Management; Amazing Spider-Man #617; Doctor Who: The End Of Time.

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Today: We’re recapping “Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang”, the second season opener of the British scifi series Torchwood… in 10 Panels Or Less™.

Tomorrow: We’ll use this story recap as a springboard into this week’s topic: Handling stress as a product manager.

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Key plot points from this episode of Torchwood (guest-starring James Marsters) are pictured herein. You have been warned!
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Dalekmania + Beatlemania = Silly BBC/EMI one-off promotion?
Or ingeniously brilliant cross-promotion?

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“The Age of Steel” is an episode of Doctor Who. It focuses on the Doctor’s fight to stop a madman from upgrading humans into Cybermen. Let’s summarize “The Age of Steel”… In 10 Screencaps Or Less!™

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We at “Product Management Meets Pop Culture” humbly suggest you spruce up your office environment this spring with Doctor Who: Time Squad office toys…

According to the solicitation: “Doctor Who: Time Squad will star the Doctor, along with many other familiar characters, enemies and monsters, in a cute and collectible super-deformed mini-figure format.”

(Yes, I just pre-ordered mine. And, yes, I know where each one will be placed, strategically, on my desk.)

Thanks to Jay Cochran at Toy News International for the tip.

Firefox is my browser of choice, and the Colorful Tabs add-on is a nifty little tool that colors every tab a different way, making tabs easy to distinguish while enhancing the aesthetic of the browser itself.

The new version of Colorful Tabs supports a background image for tabs. Good idea. However, their default image is horrific. So I decided to make my own.

Being a big Doctor Who fan, I went with a colorful swatch of Daleks to exterminate that ugly default background image. The end result looks like this:

You can download the Dalek swatch yourself by right-clicking on the image below and selecting “save as” from the resulting menu: