Control Structure #65: The Carpet Shampooer

Andrew and Steven come around to talk about what's been going on around the internet, two Kickstarters, Raspberry Pis, free Microsoft stuff, web protocols, standards, FCC crashing, listener feedback, and other cool things.

Banter

• Google’s Self-Driving Car – YouTube
• 123 – Homestar Runner’s Matt Chapman – The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show
• Everybody! Everybody!
• Homestar Runner April Fool’s 2014
• Comcastic service disconnection by ryan.block on SoundCloud – Hear the world’s sounds
• Here’s why your Comcast rep is yelling at you | The Verge
• Fallout: Nuka Break – Tales from the Wasteland by Wayside Creations — Kickstarter
• Potato Salad by Zack Danger Brown — Kickstarter

News

• New product launch! Introducing Raspberry Pi Model B+ | Raspberry Pi
• Hummingboard – Powerful Linux Single Board Computer
• Bringing WinJS cross-platform and open source
• Amazon Best Sellers: Best Laptop Computers
• Largest collection of FREE Microsoft eBooks ever, including: Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Office 2013, Office 365, Office 2010, SharePoint 2013, Dynamics CRM, PowerShell, Exchange Server, Lync 2013, System Center, Azure, Cloud, SQL Server, and much m – Microsoft Senior Sales Excellence Manager – Eric Ligman – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
• Commentary: What I Learned, and What You Should Know, After I Published My Twitter Password – Digits – WSJ
• ROBOTS.TXT DISALLOW: 20 Years of Mistakes To Avoid | beu | blog
• Mozilla Advances JPEG Encoding with mozjpeg 2.0 | Mozilla Research
• FCC extends net neutrality comment deadline after ‘overwhelming’ traffic | The Verge
• Y Combinator has filed an official comment with the FCC – Y Combinator Posthaven
• Retirement of Prof. Andy Tanenbaum
• MINIX is now available under the BSD license

Appreciate

• richardharrington/disrupt-to-bullshit · GitHub

Don’t forget

• International Backup Awareness Day

Music used

• Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
• The Glory Days | Big Giant Circles
• Big Giant Circles (BigGiantCircles) on Twitter
• Nuka Break: Season 2 | Dan Martinez

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #243: CS #65 — Google Drive Beta!

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