CQ: The keyboard and mouse are truly ancient tools for getting information into a computer, but touchscreens, cameras and microphones aren’t really all that efficient (or sophisticated enough). So, what would be another way of communicating with your computer? Or are keyboard and mouse “enough”?
On the show this week:
- A Hive of Scum and Villiany
- Ruining it for the rest of us
Full list of articles after the jump!
- A Hive of Scum and Villiany:
- Well, I guess I *won’t* be the first, then, if I won my millions of dollars..: Digital Trends – Seattle ‘supervillain’ Rex Velvet issues another warning video
- Gotta remind myself: “If it’s too good — or too BAD — to be true, it probably is.”: Yahoo! – Vengeful teeth-pulling dentist story deemed a hoax
- Now *that* is evil! Or dangerous. I mean, it could have been HOT coffee..: Metro – Robber holds up Manchester newsagent with a cup of black coffee
- I guess this is a duplicate story. I couldn’t be bothered to check, as I was updating my Facebook status to “I’m an idiot”.: Metro – New Jersey town begins issuing $85 fines for texting while walking
- Everyone knows that the ultimate evil is the one we do while obsessed with ourselves and ignorant of others..: The Huffington Post – Dangerous Walking: Fort Lee, New Jersey Cracks Down On Walking While Texting
- Having a hard time to figure out which ones are the bad guys are here..: STV – Man dressed as penguin receives more votes than the Liberal Democrats
- Obviously, it was leaking secrets to Twitter..: BBC – Turkey villagers see Israeli spy in migratory bird
- Just the kind of place to plot all sorts of Bond-level-villiany!: The UK Telegraph – Cafe full of cats opens in Vienna
- Well, *someone* got screwed on this deal..: BBC – Thieves take ?11,000 of sex toys in Stourport-on-Severn
- Oh sure: you think sexbots. But I’m thinking Austin Powers’ greatest foes. YEAAAH Baby! YeaAAH!: The Sydney Morning Herald – Sex, droids and the future of love
- Crazed animal? Really peeved bigfoot? Gigantic kitty who just wants to play with the funny-sounding fluffballs?: The UK Telegraph – ‘Beast of Bont returns’ as 20 sheep found massacred
- Hoaxing is the origianal trolling, and we all know how much we like that on the Internet..: Metro – Animal footprint shoes, including Bigfoot, leave ‘mystery’ tracks in snow
- (EXTRA) But it was like TOTALLY safe from supervilliany..: Democrat and Chronicle – Did you know? Kodak Park had a nuclear reactor
- Ruining it for the rest of us:
- Great, now I’m going to look rather silly if I complain about my hotel room or the drive to Balticon..: Orange – World’s oldest backpacker, 95
- Wisdom before youth, booby traps before bullets..: Orange – Elderly ‘Rambo’ blocks developers
- He really _does_ make it look easy. I get tired just _watching_ a marathon, and I can’t even juggle my schedule! Or geese…: Orange – Man completes triathlon – juggling
- I’m a little concern that it seems to be moving.. Look closer.. But no too close!: Metro – Students construct 15ft sculpture with chewing gum
- Turns out, social networks spread information, and information is an emotional virus..: The Sydney Morning Herald – No need to get hysterical but networkers show side effects
- (EXTRA) Beware of false positives..: The UK Telegraph – Women really do have a ‘gaydar’
- Our own minds are lying to us. It makes you want to just punch your brain!: io9 – The emotional illusion that makes the future (and the past) look so rosy
- (EXTRA) Look ma, no hands!: io9 – Could this photograph change the future?
- Every other person who hits a moose now will look downright wimpy now.: CBC News – What moose? Woman can’t recall dramatic collision
- As if it was hard enough avoiding all the historical landmarks in the dirt, now we must also consider the walls, too!: The UK Telegraph – Banksy artwork destroyed by Melbourne builder
- (EXTRA) It does give one pause on the erection of pubic art..: Austrian Independent – Giant penis is blown up
- (EXTRA) Just demonstrating that we’ve either a) always been a little pervy, or b) are much more uptight about things these days..: The Sydney Morning Herald/New York Times/AFP – Cave women in a different light
- The end of sweets, or the beginning of the “pacification through candy” movement?: Yahoo!/AFP – Sugar can make you dumb, US scientists warn
- The real evil is in thinking that the world isn’t trying to kill you, apparently..: The New York Times – Doubt Cast on the ‘Good’ in ‘Good Cholesterol’
- He laughs about it, but we’ll all cry when the space station program is shut down due to budget overruns in dealing with spam flyers in the mail..: New Scientist – How to send a letter to the International Space Station
- (EXTRA) Dissecting a television show documentary, and finding it has no guts, no head and an artificial heart.: The Smithsonian – The Idiocy, Fabrications and Lies of Ancient Aliens
- (EXTRA) Demonstrating that a supposed “trusted” figure in media can also be victim to the intermediaries of message.: The Herald Tribune – Sorry I looked….
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