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(MP3 here / Google+ Hangout here ) Preamble Political attack ads: You’re doing it right . CanaDUH City of Vancouver has a digital strategy , says Vancouver-based lobbying group. Priva-see Can Facebook, Google and Twitter be trusted ? Freedom Japanese ISPs urged to block TOR . Bonus insight into Japanese judicial system here . Khaki Pants reddit reflects on a witch-hunt . Tired Old Media Why Canaduh sucks at TV . Going Mobile A weekend with Bell’s MiFi and LTE . The NeverEnding Story San Diego police confirm that camera phones are the new guns . Pew-Pew That’s some fast Internet , yo. Toddlers need treatment for iPad addiction . Chechen President responds to Boston bombings on Instagram . Shout-outs Our superstar web designer is thinking about a new theme for our humble site. Egg him on! Music Deliberately using this to plug this . For the rest of the story, watch this . Dyscuss Something to say? Leave a comment below. Come hang in our irc channel anytime — #dyscultured @...

(MP3 here / Google+ Hangout here ) Preamble The Boston Marathon bombings, via Boston.com — wise words about that here . Cana-duh OpenMedia campaign gets Industry Minister’s attention. Khaki Pants RyWi rants about anti-social media . Possibly-related link from WIRED here . Copyfight Swedish Pirate Party crowd-sources settlements . Tired Old Media The economics of Girl Talk . Going Mobile If at first you don’t succeed, merge ? Thanks For The Memory The Archive of Historical Computer Software is here, and it is very, very large . Pew-Pew Google prepares for your death . Amazon Android app store coming to Canada . BlackBerry 10 by the numbers . What happens when you give 4chan images of the Boston Marathon? This . Shout-outs Thanks to the Miro Guide for acknowledging our existence . Music From All Day here’s Girl Talk, with “Jump on Stage”. Dyscuss Something to say? Leave a comment below. Come hang in our irc channel anytime — #dyscultured @ irc.zero...

(MP3  here  / Google+ Hangout  here )   Preamble Let’s call it a surprise shall we … Cana-duh RBC BAD ? Hoote not so sweet? Copyfight Access copyright against fair dealing! US Patent office lowers standards to fix backlog ? Issues self Patent for idea Freedom Instagram again in the news. Mobile App attacks are under way Mobile Trio to exit lobby group, claim big player bias Tired Old Media Bubble Check, Check 1, Check 2 Aereo we go again this week. Pew-Pew No one like video ads then? Lasers and Drones in the same headline. $%(&#^(#! Shout-outs The A B C’s Music Lee Reid and John P- Written Large

(MP3 here / Google+ Hangout here ) Preamble An honest cable provider … Cana-duh DSL rates drop in Ontario. Oh Shane what say ye West Coast Supreme court rules in favour of … why didn’t we have this protection already? Freedom So long as you don’t poke the Google Tired Old Media Millions of mini antennae, but is anything really on? Aereo is like rabbit ears for you smart device. Privacy Citizen, please return your Glass to it’s upright and recording position Copyfight Want to resell your MP3s online? You must this one blew up the Reddit ReDigi loses in US District Court copyright fight. The G&M covered it here Prenda lawyers take the fifth Khaki Pants A little less spam with your Google News Getty getting in on some Instagram scratch Pew-Pew Alerts on watch ? Bigger is not bettar ? Condom company cooks one up Shout-outs What would we do without Saint Reddit Music Stripped down in RyWi’s living room: The Wilderness of Manitoba Dyscuss Something...

(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 commen...

(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 SX...

(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 fa...