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Episode 217 - The Stocking Stuffer 2012 Style

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(direct link to mp3 ) Show Notes ZOOKEEPER BATTLE . That is all. 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 @anthonymarco @shanebee @wiseman

Episode 216 - Bring On The Mayan Zombies!

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(direct link to mp3 ) Preamble Propaganda film from North Korea nails Western Culture. Cana-duh Cana-duh (with a little help from the Brits and Yanks) totally bitchslaps the ITU . Copyfight TekSavvy & Voltage duke it out in Federal Court. Tired, Old Media From the obvious department, five artists who are making a killing off of piracy . Khaki Pants Instagram to monetize users’ photos . Or not . In related news, Currie totally pwns NatGeo . Going Mobile Topping the reddit this week, Ars Technica interviews a patent troll . What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been WIRED’s biggest tech fails of 2012. Pew-Pew Sued single mom goes certiorari on the RIAA. Wait, whut ? Ray Kurzweil joins Google , Google joins the singularity. Tired old media identifies Newtown shooter on Facebook. Incorrectly . TL;DR drones are fucking evil . Shout-outs Mark ST is back . Awww, yeahhhhh! Music Moses vs. Santa Claus; free download on iTunes (Linux users, hit us up for a rip). Dyscuss Something to say? Lea

Episode 215 - Boot From Cloud

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(direct link to mp3 ) Preamble Yeah, apparently dogs can drive cars now … Cana-duh Copyright trolls come to Canada: Teksavvy’s update , Geist’s two cents , TorrentFreak’s coverage and a list of infringed titles via pastebin. Copyfight Cloudy-cloud-cloud with a chance of blank media tax . Going Mobile From the obvious department: Canadians none too happy about telecom douchebaggery. Exhibit A here ; Exhibit B here . AppleAppleAppleApple Apple to insource future production of some Macs — and they’re not alone . Freedom! What a shitstorm looks like in the wonderful world of GNU/Linux. Thanks For The Memory Sony ceases production of its last audio cassette-related products. Pew-Pew Tweets with links to become slightly shorter — everybody panic! O RLY? We like Google Fiber, says Netflix . Another use for Tor: commanding botnets . The difference between rapping about killing people and actually doing it. Shout-outs We made a 2012 best/worst list — w00t! Music Dedicated to Voltage P

Episode 214 - How Does a Ferret Explain Its Needs to a German?

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(direct link to mp3 ) Preamble Privileged brats hurl $700 iPhones at Justin Bieber, with predictable results . Cana-duh A sad sign of the times from Teksavvy . What’s a torrenter to do? Try this , this or possibly this . Copyfight Darknet predicted by Microsoft engineers a decade ago . Priva-see Differing opinions on the ITU’s secret meetings in Dubai. Freedom! Bitcoin adoption is right on schedule . Going Mobile Ingress , the future of location tracking — er, “gaming”? Tired Old Media Radiohead donates program sound to fan-sourced concert film . Pew-Pew Barnes & Noble’s DRM fail . Are smartphones computers ? Almost. Whoops, there he is … Amidst opposition , Germany does right by our furry friends. Shout-outs Our producineer explains this tweet . Music Clayton Blizzard, “ New Strings On An Old Guitar “. 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 po