Twitter’s top trending topics of 2010 sadly didn’t include #mollyontopgear, but it’s kind of a plus that Justin Bieber was only around No. 8. Also today, the 4Chan kids go crazy on Gawker and you know what? Innocent people are being caught in this hacker-gang crossfire, and it’s frankly just not all that funny anymore. …
Month: December 2010
BOL 1368: Iran is Stux
The Stuxnet worm isn’t going away anytime soon, Julian Assange says No to WikiLeaks Cyber Attacks, and Michael Bay is re-writing the space landing…with Transformers. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or correction has been done for SEO, clarification, or as a product of data migration. Please …
BOL 1367: Holding on by an aglet
It’s a shoestring-and-gum operation around here, and someone took our gum. But somehow, we’ve got another show for you today, and we’re talking more Wikileaks Web warring (WWW3, perhaps?), Google activating 300,000 phones a day, and Apple’s refusal to let you donate money via iPhone apps (and weirdly robotic response). –Molly Buzz Out Loud episodes …
BOL 1366: Won’t someone think of the routers!?
The Wikileaks war is escalating and it’s threatening to go all War Games on us. 4Chan’s forces, the Anonymous group, are DDoS-ing the heck out of sites like PayPayl, MasterCard, and anyone who bows to government pressure. Meanwhile, secret forces of, uh, governments, are DDoS-ing Anonymous right back. And who’s caught in the middle? The …
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BOL 1365: New dinosaur discovery: Tongadactyl
On today’s show, we follow the Google Chrome announcements live, but we’ll have the real wrap-up tomorrow, because wow, did that thing go on and on. In other news today, Julian Assange is arrested but Wikileaks soldiers on. unsurprisingly, the DecorMyEyes guy turns out to be a bona fide sociopath. and whatever you do, do …
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BOL 1364: It’s not funny, it’s art
We’re stealing lines from Love, Actually today, because Natali can quote it by heart when it’s super a propos to a guy very disturbingly embedding a camera in the back of his own head. Ew. But hey, it’s art! Also, Twitter says it’s not suppressing Wikileaks as a trending topic–although it’s a trending topic in …
BOL 1363: Break the touch barrier
On today’s show, we premiere our new Friday segment, Computer Love. We think you’re really going to love it. But also, the Wikileaks aftermath is raising many more serious concerns about free speech issues than we ever expected — it’s a morally ambiguous world we live in. Google’s trying to make nice with rights-holders because …
BOL 1362: New alien DNA discovery: new Toxic Avengers?
On today’s show, NASA’s announcement about training bacteria to exist on arsenic is super cool, and could lead to a great remake of Toxic Avengers, but it’s certainly not the little green men announcement we were hoping for. Plus, why the FTC’s Do Not Track system is doomed to fail, we launch an angry Angry …
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BOL 1361: Celebrity zombies on Twitter
Verizon’s launching its LTE network on Sunday, the FCC is proposing a plan for Net neutrality tomorrow, and Google is about to take over the world EVEN MORE with its e-book venture (we’re sure the EU is going to love that). Also, that deafening silence you hear on Twitter is the sound of a bunch …
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