Episode 161 - Explain Lucy

(direct link to mp3)

Preamble

• That was Samsung’s cheeky new ad campaign, jabbing AppleAppleApple fanbois with a fairly pointy stick.

Police & Thieves

• Fuck me… Pat Martin’s four-letter windfall.
• Well, it was fun while it lasted.
• Ah, this must be how the cops stopped all those vandals, then…

Khaki Pants

• My new favourite word: Gaslighting.
• BTW, here’s everything Zuckerberg has on you while you browse the web, whether you’re logged in to Facebook or not.
• A different take on that nagging issue of online identity.

Tired Old Media

• Napster Canada (the legal one) hits the curb, takes digital keys with it.
• Amazon Canada’s Kindle Edition fail.
• Netflix scores rights to new eps of Arrested Development.

Goin’ Mobile

• Good thing they didn’t go with DAVE Wireless…
• Et tu, ACTRA?
• All about the first rootkit for smartphones.

Pew Pew!

• This Desert Bus thing will remain a pew-pew until someone adequately explains it to me.
• Blogger gets a cool quarter million retention bonus… from Mashable.
• Fight Klout with Flout.
• Walden Zone?
• I bet I could sneak one of these in there…
• The 1,600 words you can’t text in Pakistan.
• Snake’s dead baby. Nokia’s Snake, I mean.
• A Rocky Musical? Sure, why not?
• If a sign falls in Frisco does anyone care?

Your Weekly Mission

• Since FollowFriday was a bit of a bust, how about a comment on our blog, now that we’ve just the one. Please?

Music

• From the official 2011 SXSW Bittorrents, we’ve got The Cancer Bats with their track “Hail Destroyer”.

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