Not A Thing!

Episode 73

It’s our yearly (Baktunly?) Baktun in Review show!

We talked about some stats for the podcast:
13 guests
2.3GB of shows, 51 episodes
1.5 days of show this year

Brendan’s movie list of 2013:
Olympus Has Fallen
The Place Beyond the Pines
Iron Man 3
Fast & Furious 6
This Is the End
Pacific Rim
The World’s End
Don Jon
American Hustle
The Wolf of Wall Street

Honorable mentions

The Kings of Summer
Gravity

Spoiler Alert:
Based on Act of Valor, the Navy SEALs should not quit their day jobs.

Episode 72

The NSA is (hopefully) overwhelmed with the data it’s collecting.

Finding reflections of faces in zoomed in pictures of people.

You can listen to a computer and infer its cryptographic keys.

Iron Maiden may or may not have used BitTorrent data to fine tune their concert tour choices.

The eerily accurate New York Times dialect quiz (Sample size of two)

Making a sexist tech product is Not A Thing.

Spoiler Alert:
The year is 2013, not 2012.

This is also not our year in review show

Episode 71

China puts a rover on the moon!

China leaves a lot of smog on the earth!

The National Reconnaissance Office has a very Bond-villain style logo.

The MPAA says you wouldn’t download a car; don’t tell Porsche that.

Google (“don’t be evil”) buys Boston Dynamics (Holy crap that robot-dog’s running after me).

Dipping into the Stream of the internet.

We also name checked the podcasts James Bonding and How Did This Get Made and Content Magazine.

Spoiler Alert:
The movie was Surrogates.

Episode 70

The NSA listened into to chatting in XBOX-Live and World of Warcraft.

The best-so-far anti-patent-troll bill clears the House of Representatives.

A study says taking lots of pictures inhibits the forming of memories.

Concert-goer takes it upon himself to redesign Ticketmaster’s aging and arcane tickets.

Spoiler Alert:
Fox’s Almost Human is extremely watchable and deserves a look

Episode 69

Amazon released a teaser for their new Prime Air drone-based delivery service.

In other drone news, a counterdrone was created which can hack and control wifi-enabled drones midflight.

In the UK they are testing using radio waves to stop cars.

An open source project for a sleep mask to help induce sleep via brainwave entrainment

A study showing that DRM hurts profits in the case of music, especially for lesser known artists.

Spoiler Alert:
Ron Burgundy sure likes his scotch, and soon you can too!

Go after 4pm to the Dickens’ Fair for cheaper tickets.

Episode 68

Being injured or dying on Black Friday is Not A Thing.

Is not using periods Not A Thing?

Some really deep, difficult cryptography math means maybe communications will be too deep and difficult for people to snoop… for a little while, anyway.

A novel solution proposal to the problems of the Affordable Care Act website.

23andme are given orders to halt sales of their DNA testing kits.

We talked a little bit about the new Hunger Games movie.

Spoiler Alert:
“Text is for Facts not Feelings” -Brendan Wanger

Episode 67

A long article about the importance of keeping track of the stuff you own. And as taxpayers, we all own this.

Rob Ford is so infamous to have his own section in The Toronto Star.

Colorado deploys the olfactometer

That amazingly long Virgin America inflight safety video.

A blog to explore IEDs and weapons made from stuff past TSA security checkpoints.

Spoiler Alert:
Thor is still kind of a dick