Episode 137 - Emo Kids Doing Webcam Confessionals

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Show Notes:

Cana-duh

• Punk-ass kid arrested for uploading videos to YouTube. On his own time.
• Waitamminit, doesn’t this make us consultants?
• Prime Minister Harper is still alive. Damn.
• Now THAT’S activism!

Copyfight

• The United Nations weighs in on file sharing.
• Federal departments are hoarding our copyrights!
• Creative Commons is finally available for YouTube. (Vimeo’s still better…)
• Fortunately, raising my middle finger hasn’t been patented. Yet.

Tired Old Media

• I can has better newspaperz?
• Lady Gaga is steadily growing on us.
• So people still go to movie theatres, huh…?

Hey, Nerdlinger

• Happy IPv6 Day! Do you see a difference? I don’t see a difference…
• Thank you, Google. Die old browsers, DIE!
• For the greater good, Currie does a live walk-through of (sigh) Justin Beiber Linux.

AppleAppleApple

• iMessage to kill SMS? Yeah, not so much…
• iCloud, on the other hand, is perfect for iClods.
• This post-PC era is a myth, anyway. Simon Sage sez so…

Mobilicious

• WIND Mobile to keep blowing — wait, that didn’t come out right…
• BlackBerry is still the top Canadian smartphone OS.

Pew Pew!

• How to thwart Facebook’s latest privacy fail.
• Now that’s NOT activism!
• Nintendo stock down 5% on TSE. Wii U Wii U Wii U!!!
• Have superhero movies jumped the Aquaman? What does that even mean?

Music

• Howzabout a little nerdcore this week? Here’s Southside with their track “Get Down“.

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