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Episode 229 - Don't Make Your Dog Dance

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(MP3 here / Google+ Hangout here ) Preamble   A partially-printed AR-15 . Eep. Cana-duh Jesse Brown, George Burger and Robert Lantos — oh, my! (the opposite of) Freedom Homeland Security has a look at Canadians’ health records, with predictable results . Privacy FBI wants in on your GMail. In real time . Copyfight Help the FSF fight Hollyweb . Khaki Pants A Tiny Tiny solution to Readergate. Also, this . Going Mobile With WIND Mobile apparently up for sale , there are two ways T-Mobile USA could save it. Here’s one . The Neverending Story A small victory in the ongoing fight against the TPP. YOU ARE NO LONGER BEING TRACKED. Check out our new sharing buttons, courtesy of Bruce Schneier (via Mark ST). Pew-Pew Corrupt congressman caught bragging on Twitter about pro-CISPA payola. There’s a Bitcoin ATM now. Shout-outs Our thoughts are with Gary Miller and his dad … Music An ode to mainframe computers, via YouTube . Dyscuss Something to say? Leave a comment below. Come hang in our irc

Episode 228 - Does The Pope Dys In The Woods?

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(MP3 here / Google+ Hangout here ) Preamble From reddit to YouTube, Explain Like I’m Five . Cana-duh, Fuck Yeah! Toronto tech startup’s brave new Android keyboard . Canada loves Square even more than ‘murica . Chromebooks are coming . Do we care? Freedom UK government inks mandate for open source software . Privacy Federal judge finds NSLs unconstitutional and bans them . The Internet is a surveillance state . Copyfight Supreme court to Jamme Thomas-Rasset: “ Nope .” Khaki Pants God damn it, Google … Going Mobile An introduction to the Android modding community . God damn it, Android … The Neverending Story Wireless mythbusters debunked. Again . Pew-Pew The 1982 directory of Internet users . “My Amazon bestseller made me $12,000 nothing .” Are you ready for 3D-printed guns ? How about the image toaster ? Shout-outs Sometimes it’s the little things. Props this week to redditor Sachryriel . Music Everything Everything was at SXSW?!! Here’s their free track, COUGH COUGH . Dyscuss Someth

Episode 227 - The Minesweeper Diet

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(MP3 here / Google+ Hangout here ) Preamble OpenMedia getting some well-deserved press on CTV . Also, sign the damn petition already! Cana-duh It’s official. Canada has copyright trolls . Again with the Geist: a wireless reality check . Freedom Bradley Manning nominated for a 2013 Nobel Peace Prize . Copyfight How this for a soap opera? Copyright trolls demand IP addresses of anti-copyright troll blog readers. But they refuse to show up at court , possibly because the EFF will also be there. The judge rips them a new asshole all the same… Tired Old Media Here’s 7.39 GB of free music . Thanks, SXSW! Going Mobile Canadian startup provides cheap, disposable mobile service. For Americans . The Neverending Story Update from last week: what Google’s not being transparent about . Finally, a phone that doesn’t kill people . Pew-Pew How many calories a mouse click burns . And the hit of SXSW this year? Grumpy cat . Shout-outs Mike Gifford uncovers more FLOSS fabulousness from the Greens.

Episode 226 - "I am become death, the destroyer of media."

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(MP3 here / Google+ Hangout here ) Preamble Shit Canadian telcos say, via OpenMedia . Cana-duh Been There Done That Here comes ACTA. Again . Don’t want an even bigger Bell? Then Stop the Takeover . Priva-see Google admits that the FBI is spying on some of its customers. How many is another question . Freedom Occupy Wall Street protester acquitted by video . Tired Old Media Telling stats from Cana-duh’s indie music biz . Going Mobile Is bill shock even that shocking anymore? AppleAppleAppleApple Zomg, iWatch ! Pew-Pew In a surprise to no one, “The Best Page in the Universe” banned from Apple Stores . From the G20 obvious department … DRM chair self-destructs after 8 sittings . Why you probably shouldn’t get your photos printed at Wal-Mart Canada . Shout-outs A little love from Hamilton . Music From Jamendo, WE ARE FM with their free track, God Save The DJ . Dyscuss Something to say? Leave a comment below. Come hang in our irc channel anytime — #dyscultured @ irc.zeronode.net. Stay i