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71: Too Soon? Aug 15, 2014

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Show Notes More at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/72 Why #Ferguson Wasn’t Trending For Some Social Media Users Last Night Why Jargon Feeds On Lazy Minds BREAKING: Apple iPhone 6 Pics — Drool, Geeks! ALSO BREAKING: They’re fake. Shocking… What Makes BuzzFeed Worth $850 Million? BuzzFeed’s boss explains why the site has been quietly deleting thousands of its own posts. Another nightmare Comcast customer service call surfaces I Liked Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days. Here’s What It Did to Me NYPD Sends Out Official Memo Telling Officers They’re Allowed to Be Photographed Lyft Accuses Uber of Ordering and Canceling 5,560 Lyft Rides Edward Snowden: The Untold Story USB ‘critically flawed’ after bug discovery, researchers say Why the Security of USB Is Fundamentally Broken The Internet’s Vulnerable Backbone Oryx and Crake SitOrSquat: Restroom Finder by P&G Productions SitOrSquat.com Bald Bryan App The Film Vault Fox News Host Calls Robin Williams ‘Such A Coward’ Rush Limbaugh Says Robin Williams Killed Himself Because Leftists Are ‘Never Happy’ This Is A Masterclass In How To Win A Twitter Fight InfoSec Taylor Swift – @SwiftOnSecurity Good Morning, Vietnam The Fisher King What Dreams May Come Does It Have Legs Good Morning Internet See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

70: No Furries in Space Aug 08, 2014

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This week we talk with Jordan Harbinger from The Art of Charm podcast about creativity, social engineering, and other assorted goodies. We also discuss stuff we like and some Star Trek fanfic. Spoiler alert, there are no furries in space. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/70 Listen or subscribe in iTunes If you like the show please click here and give us a rating or review in iTunes. It helps us out and lets us know people want more episodes! If you’d like to donate to the show please check out our page on TugBoat Hosted by Libsyn Use the coupon code “gog” while signing up & receive up to 2 months free! Show Notes The Art of Charm Podcast The Art of Charm Graft Concepts Leverage i5 Case for the iPhone 5 iOS SDK Release Notes for iOS 8.0 Beta 5 How the Internet, Dopamine and your Brain are Working Together to Screw Your Potential. (and what you can do about it) Communications watchdog OFCOM: ‘Six-year-olds understand digital technology better than adults’ Facebook Messenger Facebook Crosses The Line With New Facebook Messenger App Yes, the Facebook Messenger app requests creepy, invasive permissions. But so does every other app. Latest Online Security Breach Forces Mom To Change Post-It Is your Dropcam live feed being watched by someone else? Hacker shows passenger jets are vulnerable to cyber attack 1.2 billion logins scooped up by CyberVor hacking crew – what you need to do Evidence of another Snowden-like mole is worrying Feds How Google plans to get us all using HTTPS Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns Hardcore History Archives Show 42 – (BLITZ) Logical Insanity According to Scientists, This is The Most Relaxing Tune Ever Recorded pzizz sleep pzizz energizer LinkedIn agrees to pay $6 million (U.S.) for overtime, damages Star Trek: Axanar Star Trek Continues Information about Hearing, Communication, and Understanding See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

69: Rabbit Rabbit Aug 01, 2014

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This week we debut an as yet unnamed segment on defense against Internet marketers. We discuss the Uber ratings kerfuffle and other big data nonsense as well as some epic book reviews. http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/69 Listen or subscribe in iTunes If you like the show please click here and give us a rating or review in iTunes. It helps us out and lets us know people want more episodes! If you’d like to donate to the show please check out our page on TugBoat Hosted by Libsyn Use the coupon code “gog” while signing up & receive up to 2 months free! Show Notes Rabbit Rabbit OKCupid: we experiment on users. Everyone does OkCupid experiment may have broken FTC rules All Power to the Pack Rats Podcasting patent troll: We tried to drop lawsuit against Adam Carolla The 30-Day Challenge: No Booze, No Masturbating (NOBNOM) You Are Not Late Why does my old iPhone seem to get slower before a new release? Are Uber’s passenger ratings big data for good – or discrimination 2.0? This Restaurant Kept Getting Awful Reviews. Then They Discovered Something Mind-Blowing… The Insidiousness of Facebook Messenger’s Mobile App Terms of Service Facebook moves all mobile chat to Messenger app The perks of being ‘somebody’ online Mystery in the Perseus Cluster How anyone can hack your Instagram account Stephen Sclafani The Power of No: Because One Little Word Can Bring Health, Abundance, and Happiness by James Altucher and Claudia Azula Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield Meditations: A New Translation by Marcus Aurelius (Author), Gregory Hays (Translator) Ernest Hemingway on Writing – Larry W. Phillips (Editor) Sam Walton: Made In America Lorde appointed as ‘sole curator’ of music for next Hunger Games film Agatha Christie’s Poirot’ Comes to an End Keith Urban Boston Concert: Rape Charge Laid Against Sean Murphy, 18 Guy takes shrooms at comic con. Guy texts entire meltdown to girlfriend. Internet rejoices. According to the dictionary, “literally” now also means “figuratively” Honey never spoils. You can eat 32,000-year-old honey. Note: I inadvertently called Sean Bonner’s coffee subscription service the collective and not the possee. My bad! – JD Sean Bonner’s Coffee Possee Riot Fest See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

68: Open Source Shenanigans with Sean Bonner Jul 25, 2014

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Miscreant and misanthrope Sean Bonner joins us this week to talk about his art/music project, Hope X, open hardware, Safecast, and more. We also run down some cool new books and the general tomfoolery on the Internet this week. You know the drill. http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/68 Listen or subscribe in iTunes If you like the show please click here and give us a rating or review in iTunes. It helps us out and lets us know people want more episodes! If you’d like to donate to the show please check out our page on TugBoat Hosted by Libsyn Use the coupon code “gog” while signing up & receive up to 2 months free! Show Notes Didn’t Read Facebook’s Fine Print? Here’s Exactly What It Says Facebook Explains Why It Wants to Be a Retail Store The tech utopia nobody wants: why the world nerds are creating will be awful Help shape OS X Yosemite. LittleBits Now Lets You Build Your Own DIY Smart Home Sean Bonner Exhibition listing on Subliminal Projects, for VITA E MORTE exhibition which opens July 26th Preview of artworks Main CMHHTD project website Stream CMHHTD songs Both CMHHTD EP’s on iTunes (new one is pre order) First CMHHTD EP on Pirate Bay The Majority Of Today’s App Businesses Are Not Sustainable And as if on cue Yahoo! buys Flurry for $300MM Airbnb Host Seeks Help In Evicting Squatter From Palm Springs Home Comcast’s worst nightmare: How Tennessee could save America’s Internet Grumpy Old Geek Pro-Tip: If you steal something, do not post photos of you on social media with said stolen items. Israeli women are showing support for the IDF — by showing their boobs Meet the Online Tracking Device That is Virtually Impossible to Block Snowden: Dropbox is an NSA surveillance target, use Spideroak instead Edward Snowden: ‘If I end up in chains in Guantánamo I can live with that’ – video interview SpiderOak This is how you invent a person online Amped – Daniel H. Wilson Amped – Douglas E. Richards Wired – Douglas E. Richards Earth Awakens (The First Formic War) – Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston The future of warfare: Why we should all be very afraid Operation Shakespeare: The True Story of an Elite International Sting The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA’s Clandestine Service by Hank Crumpton This Is the Best 5,453-Word Interview With Bronson Pinchot About Audiobooks You Will Ever Read Tower 2 Game of War – Fire Age Comic-Con: ‘Firefly’ Cast Reunite for Online Game How to Follow Soccer Now that the World Cup Is Over Led Zepplin: Mothership Alien Autopsy: William Barker on Schwa, two decades later Orphan Black Blake Lively’s Preserve lifestyle site: another pandering mess of e-commerce ‘Pirates of the Caribbean 5′ Gets Summer 2017 Release Date High Schoolers Ponder the Meaning of ‘Fashion’ in 1984 Brian’s record collection See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

67: Wanted! 1000 Crazies Like Us. Jul 18, 2014

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This week, Jordan Cooper joins us to talk about new media, blow job machines, and shares some awesome tips and tricks to build your online fanbase. We also talk about burnout and getting old and giving up on the Internet. It’s a HAPPY SHOW! Listen or subscribe in iTunes If you like the show please click here and give us a rating or review in iTunes. It helps us out and lets us know people want more episodes! If you’d like to donate to the show please check out our page on TugBoat Hosted by Libsyn Use the coupon code “gog” while signing up & receive up to 2 months free! Show Notes I made my husband try a sex robot A Better To-Do List: The 1-3-5 Rule TO-DO LISTS ARE RUINING THE PLANET! The Death of Journalism, by the numbers The Developer’s Dystopian Future Confessions of an ex-developer The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment of All Time Jordan Cooper Blenderhead Media Tech Douche Bags New Air BnB Logo amuses the Internet for a day Without further ado… Ex-dictator Manuel Noriega sues Activision over ‘Call of Duty’ game Amazon is testing “Kindle Unlimited,” an ebook subscription service for $9.99/month Et Tu, IBM? Apple’s Latest Move Is Not Good News for Microsoft. Microsoft set to axe 18,000 jobs Pinboard Turns Five Microsoft tells users to stop using strong passwords everywhere You can’t hide from the Internet… ‘Hidden from Google’ site remembers the pages Google’s forced to forget Statement Before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism Lifehacker Pack for Mac: Our List of the Essential Mac Apps The Best Way to Point Your Wi-Fi Router Antennas: Perpendicularly Overcast: Podcast Player – Overcast Radio, LLC You Can’t Use Facebook’s New iPhone App — Unless You’re Famous Game of War – Fire Age “Word Crimes” Weird Al Is Tired of Your “Word Crimes” in New Video Paul McCartney re-releases five of his classic albums as iPad apps Want to innovate? Become a “now-ist” Vending machines are twice as likely to kill you than a shark is. Philipp Lahm https://twitter.com/NeinQuarterly https://twitter.com/depresseddarth https://twitter.com/AlanWattsDaily Does It Have Legs 19: Ghostbusters! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

66: German Potato Salad Jul 11, 2014

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Some TMI follow-up from last weeks episode. We touch on the obligatory potato salad story. Brian doesn’t even gloat about the Germany win. We dish on some books and software. A little disruption sneaks in too. Listen or subscribe in iTunes If you like the show please click here and give us a rating or review in iTunes. It helps us out and lets us know people want more episodes! If you’d like to donate to the show please check out our page on TugBoat Hosted by Libsyn Use the coupon code “gog” while signing up & receive up to 2 months free! Show Notes Potato Salad Leftshitz piece Study Shows that 10,000 Hours of Practice Isn’t the Magic Number Original source LeBron James Website is the HTML Apocalypse LeBron hasn’t got shit on Jim Carrey. Google’s Larry Page: “I Think the Government’s Likely to Collapse Under Its Own Weight.” Homestar Runner Is Coming Back! Brazil Thought Magical Thinking Would Win Them the World Cup. They Were Wrong. Google Maps can now tell you the exact distance between two points LAPD Exposes Login To Data Harvesting Software During Interview With CNN Crypto weakness in smart LED lightbulbs exposes Wi-Fi passwords “Weaponized” exploit can steal sensitive user data on eBay, Tumblr, et al. Security company says your data can easily be recovered from ‘wiped’ Android phones Big Data should not be a faith-based initiative NSA trove shows 9:1 ratio of innocents to suspicious people in “targeted surveillance” Robogenesis: A Novel Amped Why The Music Industry’s Next Big Disruption Is In The Recording Studio DiskMaker Why Did Starfleet Allow Families Aboard the Enterprise in Star Trek: The Next Generation? Bill Murray’s Unreleased 1984 Sci-Fi Comedy Is Now Online Transcendence Gracepoint The Killing 35 Genius Travel Tips That Will Change Your Life Forever The First Text Message Ever Was Sent 21 Years Ago Today RocketSkates let you zip along the sidewalk at a top speed of 12MPH Reid’s Chocolates SAVE OUR PODCASTS LEGAL DEFENSE FUND Music by Amungus See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

65: Not Your Parents Sex Toy Jul 04, 2014

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For the Birthday of 'Murica episode we discuss the technology of "self-love" and the rise of the F'ables. A little talk about the MKNewsfeed scandal, the future of the indie music biz, and Brian shares his best travel tip to avoid a sprain at the TSA. Listen or subscribe in iTunes If you like the show please click here and give us a rating or review in iTunes. It helps us out and lets us know people want more episodes! If you'd like to donate to the show please check out our page on TugBoat Show Notes You can now literally have sex with your iPad AutoBlow 2 Building A Better Blowjob Machine The AutoBlow Original for people who are looking for the original. Oh yes! It was Crowdfunded!!! RealTouch has been around for ages. There's the ever popular Fucking Machines for the ladies Arse Elektronika 'So Who Wants to F**k a Robot?' Jacob Appelbaum on Wikipedia Automatic Sperm Extractor Introduced Into A Chinese Hospital "Feminism is a sexual strategy": Inside the angry online men's rights group "Red Pill"In the "manosphere," men resent women for "withholding" sex. And the scariest part is that they're far from alone Can We Stop Saying Tinder Is Good for Women Now? An Incompetent Attack on the Innovator's Dilemma Why we should be celebrating the rise of robot journalism instead of criticizing it MKNewsfeed! The background on Project MKUltra Facebook Experiments Had Few Limits. Data Science Lab Conducted Tests on Users With Little Oversight What does the Facebook experiment teach us? Growing Anxiety About Data Manipulation by Danah Boyd Facebook Got Permission To Do 'Research' On Users 4 Months After Emotion Manipulation Study News feed: 'Emotional contagion' sweeps Facebook Facebook tinkered with users' feeds for a massive psychology experiment Facebook's science experiment on users shows the company is even more powerful and unethical than we thought Facebook deliberately made people sad. This ought to be the final straw Facebook and Engineering the Public Everything You Need to Know About Facebook's Controversial Emotion Experiment The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats Medium Hires Tech Writer Steven Levy as It Moves From Platform to Publisher Blade, a Helicopter-Booking App, to Partner With Uber This Startup Had Over 5 Million Users And A Great Product. Then It Folded Stop predicting music's future: The next Pixies, White Stripes or Adele will come from the indie ranks Is This The End Of SoundCloud For DJs? An emoji-only social network: Ridiculous … or brilliant? (Or Sharkbaiting?) Serious Android crypto key theft vulnerability affects 86% of devices Google Starts Removing Search Results Under Europe's 'Right to be Forgotten' Data breaches in 2013 exposed 14% of all debit cards Microsoft Darkens 4MM Sites in Malware Fight How a password changed my life. 1Password with Touch ID integration in iOS 8 is truly amazing The 1s and 0s behind cyber warfare Disqus Wordpress Plugin Flaw Leaves Millions of Blogs Vulnerable to Hackers Exclusive: A review of the Blackphone, the Android for the paranoid Robogenesis: A Novel by Daniel H. Wilson They're making a Robopocalypse movie. Maybe. Fitbit Update ReadMe! by Pierre DiAvisoo The Internet's Own Boy (Paid) The Internet's Own Boy (Free) The Internet's Own Boy (Kickstarter) Starz Developing 'American Gods' Series Sherlock renewed for a 4th season and a Special! Man vs Food star has show taken off air after 'thinspiration' rant SAVE OUR PODCASTS LEGAL DEFENSE FUND Music by Amungus Hosted by Libsyn Use the coupon code "gog" while signing up & receive up to 2 months free! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

64: Grumpy Old Geeks 3.0! Sorta... Jun 27, 2014

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This week's show is a work in progress and we were strapped for time so our new bumpers are pretty rough. All apologies. Otherwise, we make more fun of Yo!, Google I/O, Android "L"oser, and toss in some productivity talk. Show notes: http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/64 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

63: Yo! Can I have a quarter? Jun 20, 2014

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It's a good week for us. Yo!, Slingshot, and Washboard are all the buzz and we're all left scratching our heads on what the hell is going on. Brian apologizes. Jason is sick as a dog and contrary to Brians accusations, there was only 1 swig of Jamesons. Show Notes at: http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/63 Show Notes What Elon Musk did — and did not — do when he “opened” Tesla’s patents Does the World Cup Have a Lingua Franca? Two Dots update THE DISRUPTION MACHINE This startup that will sell you $10 of Quarters for $14.99 People Invested $1 Million In An App That Just Says ‘Yo’ Facebook launches Slingshot Amazon Fire Phone Amazon’s Fire Phone might be the biggest privacy invasion ever (and no one’s noticed) Amazon starting their Mobile Ad offering with a $6 guaranteed CPM for the first few months. YouTube Confirms Subscription Service Imminent, Warns of Takedowns SoundExchange DIGITAL RADIO REPORT Dr. Oz’s bad medicine It’s Official, You Can Finally View GIFs on Twitter Which VPN Services Take Your Anonymity Seriously? 2014 Edition Private Internet Access AT&T offers customers affected by data breach one year of credit monitoring US Marshal CCs, rather than BCCs, those interested in anonymous Bitcoin auction Robert Scoble thinks privacy advocates have "overstepped their bounds", has useful advice for victims of violent stalkers, and is jealous of your threesomes SmartWater CSI Proton Mail begging for money The Long Mars It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens The Sweet Set-up Jason on Quit! Reeder 2 for Mac Reeder 2 for iOS Swarm Tech Douchebags Jason on Tech Douchebags Safety First with Jordan Cooper The Feed by Libsyn Today in iOS Negativland gives away ‘U2’ multi-track master, invites fans to remix infamous single https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6gPSSYxex0 Very cool little music tool Ringly - Vibration goodie for your phone Marpac Dohm-DS Dual Speed Sound Conditioner Philips Hf3321 goLITE BLU This Graphic Shows How Americans Spend Money In Real Time Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2h1TOfeVFA Fermented Turmeric Tea See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

62: Quantified Laziness Jun 13, 2014

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We discuss the dark side of the quantified self and discuss the tools of laziness, which for the next 30 days are mainly beer and soccer. Some goodness in the world of patents and how F-Me money might just save the day. Show notes: http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/62 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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