Dyscultured

  (direct link to mp3 ) Preamble “Social Media”, via Onion Talks Episode 6 . Cana-duh BitTorrent trolls coming to Cana-duh. Copyfight Nine-year-old downloader came to save us all . Priva-see The beginning of the end for TSA’s Full-Body Scanners . Freedom! Arduino, Kickstarter, trademarks and lies — oh, my! AppleAppleApple How Apple became Big Brother. Y’all are just realizing this now…? Going Mobile “I don’t want to be part of your fucking ecosystem “. Pew-Pew Won’t someone think of the drone pilots ?!! The Onion pwns People’s Daily . As long as we’re tracking kids why don’t we track our wives, too ? Unfortunately-named Twitter baby still not trending . Shout-outs “Ask Currie” is a go ! Here’s my answer . Music Heet Mob with their free download, Industry . Dyscuss Something to say? Leave a comment below. Come hang in our irc channel anytime — #dyscultured @ irc.zeronode.net. Stay in Touch Subscribe to the blog here . Point your podcatcher here . Follow the team on Twitter: @acurrie

(direct link to mp3 ) Preamble I wouldn’t have played the religious card first, but maybe that’s an easier sell… Cana-duh Because we don’t have one, here’s the top story from r/Canada this week. Priva-see Can we avoid an email surveillance state ? Yes we can ! The Neverending Story Remember that Texas teen who refused to wear an RFID tag? She’s been expelled . Meanwhile, in the EU… New regulations keep credit card companies, PayPal in check . Copyfight Hollywood controls the GOP too , apparently. Tangentially-related G+ rant here . Going Mobile So apparently it’s pronounced “ yolla “. Pew-Pew Taliban reveals entire PR list by using Cc instead Bcc . NHL lockout a boon for sex toy industry . Easily the reddit thread of the week. While we’re at it, here’s Currie’s favourite Tumblr . Shout-outs Anyone can leave a comment on the blog, you know. But until you do … Music Heet Seas with their free track, Stupid Game . Dyscuss Something to say? Leave a comment below. Come hang in our irc cha

(direct link to mp3 ) Preamble Thanks to Google you can now yell at your TV . Cana-duh Bill C-11’s shortcomings, explained through ebooks . Copyfight Draconian downloading law takes effect in Japan, with predictable results . Going Mobile BlackBerry 10 launching next January . As expected, Nexus 4 sells out in minutes . China Watch Great firewall blocks Google . Tired Old Media Google has officially eaten the newspaper industry . Khaki Pants Firefox turns eight . Pew-Pew Antivirus pioneer wanted on murder charges ? South Korea’s toiled-themed theme park . GIF trumps YOLO for word of the year. Now here’s a bunch of GIFs as filler. Shout-outs Time-stamped show notes , you say? Music TdotBEAR rips up the radio reddit charts with his free track 8-bit Grenade . Dyscuss Something to say? Leave a comment below. Come hang in our irc channel anytime — #dyscultured @ irc.zeronode.net. Stay in Touch Subscribe to the blog here . Point your podcatcher here . Follow the team on Twitter: @acurrie

(direct link to mp3 ) Preamble Anth, Currie and Wiseman for past, what… six episodes ? Cana-duh Tronno Star hack defends paywall , with predictable results . Copyfight Sharing pr0n costs a lot more than making it , it seems. Priva-see Microsoft reveals killer app for Xbox Kinect. Going Mobile Little green robot turned 5 years old this week. 75% global market share = Google monopoly ? A quick primer on Android security, via this , this , this and this . Khaki Pants How YouTube is leaving amateurs behind . Edjumacayshun Dealing with digital distractions in the classroom. Meanwhile, in Africa… Ethiopian kids hack on Android with no prior instruction. And in Lagos, a litre of piss yields six hours of power . Pew-Pew UK judge to AppleAppleApple: “ Say sorry like you mean it !” reddit user captures voting machine irregularity in the US and A. Worst guerilla marketing campaign ever . And finally, some news worth paying for . Shout-outs Another reddit convert — woot! Music From Jamendo,

(direct link to mp3 ) Preamble A delightful romp through the Canada-China Trade Deal , featuring Vancouver’s finest comedic actors. Spam our PM here if you like. Cana-duh Bell estimated to mark up their Internet service by 6,452% . Is it time to boycott paywalled sites ? Priva-see Online discourse should be regulated by government (please comment via Facebook). Don’t constrain law enforcement in the cyberworld , bro. When Toews says “ cyber systems ” does he mean “Internet”…? TL;DR Shopping Malls don’t qualify as public space . Relevant episode of The Agenda here . Going Mobile Much ado about Nexus . Scumbag Mobilicity’s bait and switch . Freedom!  Who needs Netflix with 10 petabytes of free culture? Pew-Pew New hockey channels (and another paywall). Lucas cedes control of Star Wars franchise to Mickey Mouse . Project Tyler is not a reality show . So much for journalism school … Shout-outs Zomg, identity theft !!1! Music Worth paying for? 2 Skinnee J’s and “Irrestible Force”, from