Distilled

Conversation centers around the development of chickenvscobra.com, a silly social game built by the tenants of Tampa Bay Wave. This project, while ridiculous, illustrates the power of practicing your craft in an open playground. Through these experiences, we refine our ability to deliver high quality service to clients.

The guys are all over the map in this episode, but the core topics are dongles as authentication mechanisms and the "nerd quiz" that Aubrey totally nails. Look for some b-sides resultant from this one.

In this second part of the two-part series, Aubrey and Justin expand on the idea of extracting behavior definition from markup as a completely separate layer. In the process, some provocative suggestions are made for the evolution of HTML and web interactivity in general.

In this two part series, Aubrey and Justin discuss the many facets of touch- and gesture-based interactivity. HTML was never intended to describe interactive components. In part 1, we lay the ground work for this argument and set the stage for part 2, where the only logical solution presents itself.

Aubrey explains the encryption strategy for streaming video, using rotating keys to prevent dictionary attacks. Justin hypothesizes the eventuality of high power computing that will be capable of cracking any key in 15mins.

Aubrey and Justin discuss the definition of art and propose a social experiment to test the assertion that art can not be defined without considering the observer.

A short clip about wireless transfer of electricity, including a story about a power plant option from Sim City inspired by real technology from the 1960s.

Aubrey and Justin discuss the moral, ethical, philosophical, legal, and technological implications of 3D printing and its natural evolution into something like a Star Trek replicator. There's also a story of how the first submarine almost won the American Civil War for the Confederate Army.

Justin explains the pain sting scale, then rants about some frustrating challenges of using third party APIs. Aubrey talks about the troubles of professional specialization and the pitfalls of power distance in behavioral dynamics. There's also a funny story about spit.

In this b-side clip, Justin discusses the core problem of fixed route bus systems with his wife, Mollie. Aubrey has been working on bus+, an on-demand system for matching passengers to drivers in real-time, for a few years. Justin has been involved for the past year. Learn more at http://buspl.us