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Episode 7.5: The man wants your digital rights.

Where’d we go?

Colin Jacobs from Electronic Frontiers Australia joins us this week (www.efa.org.au)

Who/what is the EFA? What do they do and what don’t they do?

Brief mention of the Whirlpool thingo: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14427/53/
What are some of the big things Australian geeks (and the Australian community in general) need to be aware of?

Clean Feed
Customs inspecting iPods and PMPs
NO R Rating for interactive media
Google Street view privacy implications

Twitterers say the darndest things
This week in Lego
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/09/army_of_transvestites_celebrate_lego_minifig_anniversary-2.html

What are we playing at the moment?
Mario Galaxy
Spore
Portal (Orange Box)
Metal Gear Solid

Links to
www.efa.org.au
www.eff.org
www.nocleanfeed.com

 

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Hooray! After a break that was a little longer than any of us really expected, we’re now coming to a point where we can start recording again.

But we need input from you guys! We’ll be re-focussing the show to a more topical /discussion/ show rather than three nerds reading stuff out.

There’s no doubt the ‘old format’ had fans though, which is why we need the feedback. What should stay? This Week in Lego? Our console gamer rants? What? We want the show to be primarily around discussion but we’re open to the topic.

Heard something you don’t understand? Can’t decide if what someone is doing is good or evil? This is the kind of stuff we want to talk about. Podcast@namealreadytaken.com. Drop us suggestions. If we can find an expert on the topic we’ll try to have them on, too.

We have some ideas for some ongoing content but we really want some listener driven stuff, too.

Anyway, keep the feedback coming in - it’s reassured us that this really is worth doing. Look out for us back in your iTunes podcast folder within a week.

Cheers,

Chris.

Hi guys! As at least one person has noticed, there hasn’t been an episode for a couple of weeks. Fear not, dear listener, we’re not gone for good, just re-grouping

We decided to take a break for a couple of reasons, the main of which is that NAT was taking the direction of a nerdy news show and that’s not what any of us intended it to be.
Sure, we wanna talk about stuff we come across online, but we don’t wanna just be a recap show - there are enough of them - we wanna share the geek passion and get excited about nerdy stuff like updating my podcast blog from my iPhone on a train that smells like vomit. That kinds thing.

We’ll be back In a couple of weeks. Until then keep leaving feedback - you’re the guys we want to appeal to.

What do you wanna listen to?

Episode six is done!

This week we discuss:

Al’s trip to GameOn
Vista 56meg five word update

Windows 3.1 no longer available for embedded devices

This Week in Amazing Military technology
B2 upgraded to ‘Pentium class’ processors

Radiohead film new clip without cameras

iPhone

Anti Iphone top 10:
Top 3:
3: Nokia N81 8GB
2: 02 XDA Orbit
1: n95 8gb

Twitter says the darndest things

TWIL: Aircraft Carrier

Playboy asks which blogger you’d like to see naked
Xeni Jardin, Violet Blue, Julie Alexandria, Veronica Belmont, Amanda Congdon, Brigitte Dale, Sarah Lacy, Sarah Austin and Natali Del Conte

AMD announces $1B loss this quarter - mainly due to the declining value of ATI

Iran has photoshop - image of four launching Shahab-3 missiles is actually 3.

Photoshop disasters

Batman begins on Bluray

AVG breaks internet

Desguises itself better

Fixes things

Jimmy Introduced as co-founder of WikiPedia

Belkin ipod thingo

Geek Weightloss challenge

 

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Sorry guys, the iTunes Link seems to be borked, so I’m reposting this episode.

 

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Bill Gates steps down as executive chairman of MS
Top 10 hits andmisses at MS
Grow Asparagus on mars
Nokia buys Symbian - makes it free.
MS Send FireFox team cake
3d hologram of tie fighter
Lego Vault contains every lego set, ever:
Walle done by an animator;
We’re still off our tits about BatMan, which is selling out in the US.
Hackers crack London underground
The ‘Moaster’ is the highest popping toaster in the world
Easychair Workstation

The Website is down.

 

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SInce iTunes has given us the love of being Australia’s Number 1 Geek Podcast, i thought I’d give it some love back by adding a sexy new iTunes button in the sidebar. For those reading this in an RSS reader, here’s what it looks like.

Cleek it! You know you want to…

We’re the number one tech podcast in Australia today! God bless iTunes bizarre chart system.

In this our third episode we chat about
Ice on mars! The Mars Phoenix twitters signs of life.
Chris Geeked out at Space Classics and was able to share a urinal with a storm trooper 
Al pledges to buy an AT-AT covered in graffiti (its only $2k at Christies)

Al also brings us This week in Lego..

Lil’ Petey plays with the new Canon HV30

Chris really wants an RPG Piggy Bank
 Firefox downloaded 8 million times beats previsouly never set record.
 ’Mio’ Knight Rider GPS - 
Al will crash your pool this summer, friend him now on Facebook!
Mr Fusion is a step closer to reality
Stewart Butterfield’s resignation letter + resultant yahoo resignation letter generator
CREEPY SNOW domes - damn, i can’t find the link, but i’m sure Al will add it to the comments.. 

 

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As you will hear we had a bit of a Lego geek out in episode 3. Sure the Star Wars stuff was cool, but this takes the cake:

I give you Wall-E,

LEGO FTW!!!