Control Structure #22: I’m Sick of This

Chris and Andrew discuss what's been going on around Kickstarter, solar power, Microsoft, Google, Moore's Law, that RPG spreadsheet, what to call themselves, and DRM. All during a thunderstorm.

Links

• Randompics.net :: random funny pictures
• DLC Quest on Steam
• The Day the Replication Died » Backing & Hacking — Kickstarter
• From the Composer of Skyrim – Soule Symphony No. 1 by Max Steiner Agency Inc. » May the Northerner be with you! New tiers & stretch goal revealed! — Kickstarter
• Code Monkey Save World by Greg Pak — Kickstarter
• Raspberry Pi | the Andrew Bailey
• King’s Quest 6 | the Andrew Bailey
• MegaRace – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• The distraction-free iPhone (or ‘Why I’m happier since I disabled Safari’) — Life Hacks — Medium
• Solar panels could destroy U.S. utilities, according to U.S. utilities | Grist
• Bitcoin Miners Are Racking Up $150,000 A Day In Power Consumption Alone | TechCrunch
• Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium – Home
• 88 Acres
• Eighteen and Abandoned : The New Yorker
• Go at Google
• Google Glass — Google Developers
• Google: ‘Glassware’ developers prohibited from displaying ads | Google – CNET News
• Sony ISP launches world’s fastest home Internet, 2Gbps – Computerworld
• draft-tbray-http-legally-restricted-status-02
• Tests Are Overhyped
• Watir.com | Web Application Testing in Ruby
• Windows 8.1 will include boot to desktop option to bypass ‘Metro’ interface | The Verge
• How Windows XP end of life will affect your desktop applications
• I’m Cary Walkin, the accountant and creator of Arena.Xlsm – an RPG made entirely in MS Excel! AMA! : IAmA
• Moore’s Law and the Origin of Life | MIT Technology Review
• Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice | Kalzumeus Software
• Nomadic programming | My programming escapades
• Chrome Experiments – Home
• IBM insider: How I caught my wife while bug-hunting on OS/2 • The Register
• Where were the bullet holes on OS/2’s corpse? Its head … or foot? • The Register
• Bozho’s tech blog » Generating Music
• pyNES | Write NES games in Python
• How 4 Microsoft engineers proved that the “darknet” would defeat DRM | Ars Technica
• The Netflix Tech Blog: HTML5 Video at Netflix
• thenexustv/tntv-backup · GitHub
• Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day

Music

• Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
• Code Monkey – JoCopedia, the Jonathan Coulton wiki
• Re: Your Brains – JoCopedia, the Jonathan Coulton wiki
• Jamendo – Windmills by Anitek

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #76: CS #22 — Ig-nore-ence!

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