Braindead TechCast EP 149: Sean … I’m in your podcast

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Posted 1000 days ago

Tonight is a bit of a departure in that Sean has decided to take a bit of a holiday and I was lucky enough to get my friend Paul O’Flaherty to step in and help out while Sean is gallivanting around some state.

As far as topics much of tonight’s show is about all different kinds of Facebook news that has been going on over the last few days. Paul and I also get into a couple of interesting discussions about Nokia, Microsoft, StumbleUpon and Digg.

Posts referenced in tonight’s show.

Facebook Phone: All You Need To Know + New Details – GigaOM
Facebook is not worth $33,000,000,000 – 37 Signals
TheLikestream, Digg For Facebook “Likes” – TechCrunch
Tinypic Restricts Photo Uploads To U.S., Users Up In Arms – TechCrunch
The absolute best tech headline ever, and no, neither I nor MG wrote it – The Inquisitr

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Braindead TechCast EP 148: Lost in St. Louis

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Not being one’s to let anything too serious stop Sean or I from doing the show tonight’s episode finds Sean suffering through horrendous hotel Internet service in order to join me for our Cool Stuff night.

Before we get to that though we do take a moment to praise the Internet gods for finally allowing Netflix to reach Canada and for a reasonable price.

From three it’s all about robot skin, rubber band Gatling guns and glass speakers. You know cool stuff.

Just so you know we aren’t pulling your leg about how bad Sean’s connection was here’s the speed test result he showed me.

Posts referred to in the show.

New electronic skin gives robots the sense of touch – io9
Rubber Band Gatling Gun Will Cost You $500, Totally Worth It – The Inquisitr
Apparently the Future Is Now: Homemade Coil Gun – Great White Snark
Glass Speakers? What Are You, Crazy? – CrunchGear
Braille GPS helps the blind to navigate in unfamiliar places – DVICE

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Braindead TechCast EP 147: No sexy in security

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Besides the greatest quote we’ve heard in a long time both Sean and I are really happy that neither of our pant legs are wet. Not only that we wonder what it would take for all these silly social media services to actually practice security before they are forced into it.

Posts referred to in the post.

CE-Oh no he didn’t!: Anssi Vanjoki says using Android is like peeing in your pants for warmth – Engadget
Future ex-Price Chopper employee illustrates how to use social media to damage brands and scare people – The Inquisitr
All about the “onMouseOver” incident – Twitter Blog
The Twitter hack: how it started and how it worked – Guardian
Pie chart: Apple’s outrageous share of the mobile industry’s profits – CNN

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Braindead TechCast EP 146: Moronic Monday plays with a joydick

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What better way to start off your week than a good dose of some really moronic things we have from around the web. I mean where else can you find out about joydicks, floating cellphone enclosures or a Trekkie menstrual pad.

Seriously it doesn’t get any better or moronic that this.

Luxottica to produce prescription 3D glasses – THR
Consumers Are Excited About 3D-TVs at Home–Until They Try One – Fast Company
The Joydick – SF Media Labs
Monster quad bike uses lawn chairs to let you ride in style – DVICE
Image of the Day: bizarre floating phone helmet – DVICE
Oregon Scientific Maranello Ferrari Speedometer Line Projection Clock – SlipperyBrick
Dell’s Convertible Netbook-Tablet Actually Looks Really Cool – CrunchGear
Trekkie menstrual pad campaign: what does “warp speed absorption” really mean? – io9
Pee on things you hate with customizable Urinal Cake Kits – SlipperyBrick

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Braindead TechCast EP 145: Techmeme Friday with a whole bunch of butt covering

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Yes folks, it’s time for yet another Techmeme Friday where Sean and I spend some time going through the headlines on Techmeme and use them as fodder for our special blend of humor.

Well we call it humor anyway.

Headlines mentioned in the show.

Airplay is Apple’s ‘Go to Market’ Internet TV strategy - 9 to 5 Mac
When Web sites and Web apps collide with IE 9: Questions and some answers - Mary Jo Foley
Statement: Reports of notebook, netbook sales declines grossly exaggerated - Best Buy
A New Movie Experience, Starring You and Your Friends - Facebook Blog
Intel Threatens to Sue Anyone Who Uses HDCP Crack - TechCrunch
Fly on the wall says Apple made Newsday kill funny iPad ap ad - Network World
T-Mobile Won’t Tax Twitter Texts But Will Hike Prices - GigaOM
Cuil Goes Down, And We Hear It’s Down For Good - TechCrunch
Global Wireless Subscriptions Reach 5 Billion - iSuppli

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Braindead TechCast EP 144: A day of puzzling tidbits

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This is one of those shows where we end up looking at a bunch of stuff starting with a follow-up to the story we talked about in the last show regarding the creepy Googler (now ex).

We also take a bit of a trip down memory lane as we wonder about the future of Novell now that VMware has taken an interest in its Linux services, and SUSE.

Posts referenced in the show.

Braindead TechCast EP. 143: About the keeping my data private thing – Shooting at Bubbles
Why the snooping ex Google engineer is in trouble – TechEYE
Twitter Needs to Become More Open or Die - GigaOM
VMware Is in Talks to Acquire Novell’s Linux Software Unit – WSJ
Goodbye from lalawag - Lalawag

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Braindead TechCast EP. 143: About the keeping my data private thing

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YA! Twitter got a new home page. Let’s all go out and party like it is 2007 and get all warm and fuzzy. In other words for the millions of people using non-Twitter clients nothing has changed but for those developing for Twitter services it is yet another lesson that maybe you should all go back to writing email clients or “Hello World”.

Then’s there’s Google ….

Post referenced in the show

A Better Twitter – Twitter
Apple Says The Steve Jobs Ninja Stars Story Is “Pure Fiction” – Business Insider
GCreep: Google Engineer Stalked Teens, Spied on Chats (Updated) – Gawker/Valleywag

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Braindead TechCast EP 142: Moronic Monday has Steven eating his mic

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Not that anyone will notice but I got me a new mic to do my shows with which should result in a better quality audio, which when it comes to podcasts is a really good idea. Other than that it was just another normal Moronic Monday where we get to see Sean’s head approach the exploding point once more.

Posts referred to in the show

Football Player Gets Hair Insured for $1 Million – Neatorama
Listen To A Drawing With The Rec & Play Pens – CrunchGear
Meat smoker texts you when your meat is done – SlipperyBrick
Extreme Superhero Chest Tattoo – Geeks are Sexy
Lil’ Vampire Pacifier for Your Favorite Bloodsucking Baby – Neatorama
The MacBook-Shaped Cutting Board – Geek O System
Office Saddle Seat – Random Good Stuff
‘World’s Rarest and Most Expensive’ car wax – gizmag
10 Pictures Real Life Super Heroes - The Inquisitr
Witness airlines’ horrifying vision for the future of air travel – DVICE

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