Episode 3: Yippee Ki-yay, Mr Power!
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We talk to Thomas Scovell about Downtothewire.co.nz, and Rick Shera about Simon Power’s ill-considered review of laws around “new media”. Then we move on to phishing, climate change denial, power savings, a dick on a back, reality TV, Macbooks Air, Italian miniskirts, the Walkman, War and Peace, and big softies.
Lower bit-rate version of the show
The main feed each week currently contains a 160kbps MP3, we chose this to maximise the quality of our recordings, however we’re considering moving to serving up 96kbps files in the feed instead, as they tends to be rather a lot smaller, so much quicker for people to download. Here is a 96kbps version of this week’s recording: Episode 3 – Yippee Ki-yay, Mr Power! (96 kbps, MP3), to download this file, right-click the link and select save.
We’re still soliciting feedback on whether people are happy to see this happen, or even if you don’t care one way or the other.
Show notes
- Labour Weekend (Wikipedia)
- Camera+
- Downtothewire.co.nz
- Discourse guest Thomas Scovell, from Heyday
- 10/10/10 (3 News)
- 21 Years of New Zealand Internet (Scoop)
- Do a yard! (Wikipedia)
- Mobile devices and driving: safety tips (AA)
- Geared Scrolling source code
- It’s not a DDOS attack (Wikipedia)
- Hine report
- The poison from New Zealand
- Heavenly Pop Hit (YouTube)
It’s ok, you can take a break from the show notes while you listen to this. - Canon 7d
- Morgan’s latest short film, Action Manu
- Stories from 1998: ████████ and ██████████ ████, ████.
- Discourse guest Rick Shera, from Lowndes Jordan
- Electromagnetic interference (Wikipedia)
- Law Commission to review regulatory gaps around “new media”
- Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993
- Department of Internal Affairs
- The DIA Internet Filter (KiwiBlog)
- Cameron Slater (Wikipedia)
- Turkey Facebook Ban (Scoop)
- Hon Simon Power, MP
- DIA Anti-spam information
- ACTA and the DMCA (Wikipedia)
- InternetNZ
- NZTA phish tricks some folks (Stuff), NZTA has offered replacement licenses to affected people
- Last week’s show notes (Discourse)
- BP (among others) are funding Tea Party anti-climate types (Guardian)
- Sell out! (MetaCafe)
- The powerful Rick Giles (KiwiBlog)
- Testing out the Current Cost energy monitor from Smartnow
- That website that shows current national grid energy usage.
- Tattoo prank (NZHerald)
- A fourth TV station called: FOUR (NZHerald).
- The Amazing Race (CBS)
- Netbooks. MacBook Air (Apple) vs. everything else. Screen res. Atom processors. Etc. What do you think?
- OS X Lion “single application mode” (Ars Technica)
- The Town (IMDb)
- These show notes bend it up the bum.
- Bogans (Wikipedia)
- A seaside city in Italy is planning to ban miniskirts and other revealing clothing to improve what the mayor calls standards of public decency.
- Sony stops making cassette walkman
- Morris Minor & the Majors sing Stutter Rap
- War Sucks (Flickr)
- Mothballed Skyhawks (3News)
- Firepower: Ultimate Weapons (Discovery)
- Urban Dictionary Word of the Week: Big Soft
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