Episode 145 - Gig Me Up Buttercup

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Cana-duh

• Here’s the Honour Roll of 26 schools that have said “fuck you” to Access Copyright.
• Want to see Sympatico’s rating? Scroll down, scroll waaaaaay down.
• Speaking of Bell. Seven. Fucking. Cents.

U-S-A! U-S-A!

• AppleAppleApple has more cash than U.S. government. Good for them.
• AT&T to throttle mobile data just in time for iPhone 5. Haw-haw.
• Uncle Barrack wants YOU (to spam your Twitter friends).

Begun, The Cyber-Wars Have

• At least call it “black hat” hacking, you asshats.
• Is AnonOps recruiting?

Tired Old Media

• Based on the photo I would say the correct answer is zero.
• I think the real question is, why does this need funding?

Ain’t It Cool News

• Who wants a slice of Raspberry Pi?
• IEEE, that’s a wide coverage area.
• IEEE, there’s WiFi in my light bulb!!1!

Mobilicious

• Currie’s gonna be late tonight — he’s getting a RIM-job.
• If he hasn’t made it on-air by this point you can discuss this.
• And this.

Pew Pew!

• Most useless Twitter study ever.
• Tap me while I’m texting? That’s assault!
• Suicide-obsessed Foxconn workers to be replaced with robots. That’ll learn ’em.
• Angry Birds, the bra…?
• M$FT publishes location of PCs & Windows 7 phones. All 18 of them.
• And finally, for absolutely no reason… Hobo QR codes!

Shout-Outs

• Who is the real Michael M.?

Music

• Here’s Billy Bragg (!) and his free download, Never Buy The Sun.
• Scouser…?

Dyscuss

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Up Next

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• Episode 147 will record live next Wednesday, August 10rd from 9:30 pm ET / 6:30 pm PT, right here.