Control Structure #49: Spiders To Eat The Bugs

Steven dares to wake the idle podcasting phenomenon of Andrew! They talk about some stories, then Dell, Apple, Mozilla, Cisco, helium filled hard drives, SEC, RSA, NSA, Google, and some other ancillary anecdotes.

Links

• Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds panic myth: The infamous radio broadcast did not cause a nationwide hysteria.
• The parable of the fisherman « Figuring Shit Out
• The parable of the fisherman | Hacker News
• Dell Completes Go-Private Transaction | Business Wire
• XPS 15 Touch Screen Laptop Details | Dell
• New 6430u smells awful – Laptop General Hardware Forum – Laptop – Dell Community
• Apple Unveils 1-Lb. ‘iPad Air’; iPad Mini Gains Retina Display – Tech Trader Daily – Barrons.com
• Woz Is Unimpressed By Apple’s New iPads | Cult of Mac
• In the Beginning… Was the Command Line – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Wow, or from the When-Apple-Became-the-Borg Department | Lessig Blog, v2
• the slaughter continues — Apple’s latest deleted comment | Lessig Blog, v2
• 12 Awesome CSS3 Features That You Can Finally Start Using | Tutorialzine
• Firefox Notes – Desktop
• Open codec pioneer leaves Red Hat, joins Mozilla to work on next-generation video codec — Tech News and Analysis
• OpenH264
• Mozilla will add H.264 to Firefox as Cisco makes eleventh-hour push for WebRTC’s future — Tech News and Analysis
• Cisco’s H.264 Good News | Brendan Eich
• Monty Montgomery – Comments on Cisco, Mozilla, and H.264
• NASA Laser Communication System Sets Record with Data Transmissions to and from Moon | NASA
• The keys to the keydom | bit-player
• Wikipedia editors, locked in battle with PR firm, delete 250 accounts | Ars Technica
• Stephen Clarke-Willson – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Western Digital to Release 7-Platter Sealed Hard Disk Drives This Quarter – X-bit labs
• EFF Has Lavabit’s Back in Contempt of Court Appeal | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Public Citizen Press Room
• Dozens in Congress now ready to end bulk data program | Ars Technica
• Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day

Music

• Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
• MrSolidSnake745’s Floppy Drive Orchestra
• Cage The Elephant – Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked – YouTube

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #158: CS #49 — You Gotta Jump Sometimes!

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