Grumpy Old Geeks

This week, Jordan Cooper joins us to talk about new media, blow job machines, and shares some awesome tips and tricks to build your online fanbase. We also talk about burnout and getting old and giving up on the Internet. It’s a HAPPY SHOW!

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I made my husband try a sex robot

A Better To-Do List: The 1-3-5 Rule

TO-DO LISTS ARE RUINING THE PLANET!

The Death of Journalism, by the numbers

The Developer’s Dystopian Future

Confessions of an ex-developer

The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment of All Time

Jordan Cooper

Blenderhead Media

Tech Douche Bags

New Air BnB Logo amuses the Internet for a day

Without further ado…

Ex-dictator Manuel Noriega sues Activision over ‘Call of Duty’ game

Amazon is testing “Kindle Unlimited,” an ebook subscription service for $9.99/month

Et Tu, IBM? Apple’s Latest Move Is Not Good News for Microsoft.

Microsoft set to axe 18,000 jobs

Pinboard Turns Five

Microsoft tells users to stop using strong passwords everywhere

You can’t hide from the Internet…

‘Hidden from Google’ site remembers the pages Google’s forced to forget

Statement Before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism

Lifehacker Pack for Mac: Our List of the Essential Mac Apps

The Best Way to Point Your Wi-Fi Router Antennas: Perpendicularly

Overcast: Podcast Player – Overcast Radio, LLC

You Can’t Use Facebook’s New iPhone App — Unless You’re Famous

Game of War – Fire Age

“Word Crimes”

Weird Al Is Tired of Your “Word Crimes” in New Video

Paul McCartney re-releases five of his classic albums as iPad apps

Want to innovate? Become a “now-ist”

Vending machines are twice as likely to kill you than a shark is.

Philipp Lahm

https://twitter.com/NeinQuarterly

https://twitter.com/depresseddarth

https://twitter.com/AlanWattsDaily

Does It Have Legs 19: Ghostbusters!

This week, Jordan Cooper joins us to talk about new media, blow job machines, and shares some awesome tips and tricks to build your online fanbase. We also talk about burnout and getting old and giving up on the Internet. It’s a HAPPY SHOW!

Listen or subscribe in iTunes

If you like the show please click here and give us a rating or review in iTunes. It helps us out and lets us know people want more episodes!

If you’d like to donate to the show please check out our page on TugBoat

Hosted by Libsyn
Use the coupon code “gog” while signing up & receive up to 2 months free!

I made my husband try a sex robot

A Better To-Do List: The 1-3-5 Rule

TO-DO LISTS ARE RUINING THE PLANET!

The Death of Journalism, by the numbers

The Developer’s Dystopian Future

Confessions of an ex-developer

The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment of All Time

Jordan Cooper

Blenderhead Media

Tech Douche Bags

New Air BnB Logo amuses the Internet for a day

Without further ado…

Ex-dictator Manuel Noriega sues Activision over ‘Call of Duty’ game

Amazon is testing “Kindle Unlimited,” an ebook subscription service for $9.99/month

Et Tu, IBM? Apple’s Latest Move Is Not Good News for Microsoft.

Microsoft set to axe 18,000 jobs

Pinboard Turns Five

Microsoft tells users to stop using strong passwords everywhere

You can’t hide from the Internet…

‘Hidden from Google’ site remembers the pages Google’s forced to forget

Statement Before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism

Lifehacker Pack for Mac: Our List of the Essential Mac Apps

The Best Way to Point Your Wi-Fi Router Antennas: Perpendicularly

Overcast: Podcast Player – Overcast Radio, LLC

You Can’t Use Facebook’s New iPhone App — Unless You’re Famous

Game of War – Fire Age

“Word Crimes”

Weird Al Is Tired of Your “Word Crimes” in New Video

Paul McCartney re-releases five of his classic albums as iPad apps

Want to innovate? Become a “now-ist”

Vending machines are twice as likely to kill you than a shark is.

Philipp Lahm

https://twitter.com/NeinQuarterly

https://twitter.com/depresseddarth

https://twitter.com/AlanWattsDaily

Does It Have Legs 19: Ghostbusters!

Some TMI follow-up from last weeks episode. We touch on the obligatory potato salad story. Brian doesn’t even gloat about the Germany win. We dish on some books and software. A little disruption sneaks in too.

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Potato Salad

Leftshitz piece

Study Shows that 10,000 Hours of Practice Isn’t the Magic Number

Original source

LeBron James Website is the HTML Apocalypse

LeBron hasn’t got shit on Jim Carrey.

Google’s Larry Page: “I Think the Government’s Likely to Collapse Under Its Own Weight.”

Homestar Runner Is Coming Back!

Brazil Thought Magical Thinking Would Win Them the World Cup. They Were Wrong.

Google Maps can now tell you the exact distance between two points

LAPD Exposes Login To Data Harvesting Software During Interview With CNN

Crypto weakness in smart LED lightbulbs exposes Wi-Fi passwords

“Weaponized” exploit can steal sensitive user data on eBay, Tumblr, et al.

Security company says your data can easily be recovered from ‘wiped’ Android phones

Big Data should not be a faith-based initiative

NSA trove shows 9:1 ratio of innocents to suspicious people in “targeted surveillance”

Robogenesis: A Novel

Amped

Why The Music Industry’s Next Big Disruption Is In The Recording Studio

DiskMaker

Why Did Starfleet Allow Families Aboard the Enterprise in Star Trek: The Next Generation?

Bill Murray’s Unreleased 1984 Sci-Fi Comedy Is Now Online

Transcendence

Gracepoint

The Killing

35 Genius Travel Tips That Will Change Your Life Forever

The First Text Message Ever Was Sent 21 Years Ago Today

RocketSkates let you zip along the sidewalk at a top speed of 12MPH

Reid’s Chocolates

SAVE OUR PODCASTS LEGAL DEFENSE FUND

Music by Amungus

Some TMI follow-up from last weeks episode. We touch on the obligatory potato salad story. Brian doesn’t even gloat about the Germany win. We dish on some books and software. A little disruption sneaks in too.

Listen or subscribe in iTunes

If you like the show please click here and give us a rating or review in iTunes. It helps us out and lets us know people want more episodes!

If you’d like to donate to the show please check out our page on TugBoat

Hosted by Libsyn
Use the coupon code “gog” while signing up & receive up to 2 months free!

Potato Salad

Leftshitz piece

Study Shows that 10,000 Hours of Practice Isn’t the Magic Number

Original source

LeBron James Website is the HTML Apocalypse

LeBron hasn’t got shit on Jim Carrey.

Google’s Larry Page: “I Think the Government’s Likely to Collapse Under Its Own Weight.”

Homestar Runner Is Coming Back!

Brazil Thought Magical Thinking Would Win Them the World Cup. They Were Wrong.

Google Maps can now tell you the exact distance between two points

LAPD Exposes Login To Data Harvesting Software During Interview With CNN

Crypto weakness in smart LED lightbulbs exposes Wi-Fi passwords

“Weaponized” exploit can steal sensitive user data on eBay, Tumblr, et al.

Security company says your data can easily be recovered from ‘wiped’ Android phones

Big Data should not be a faith-based initiative

NSA trove shows 9:1 ratio of innocents to suspicious people in “targeted surveillance”

Robogenesis: A Novel

Amped

Why The Music Industry’s Next Big Disruption Is In The Recording Studio

DiskMaker

Why Did Starfleet Allow Families Aboard the Enterprise in Star Trek: The Next Generation?

Bill Murray’s Unreleased 1984 Sci-Fi Comedy Is Now Online

Transcendence

Gracepoint

The Killing

35 Genius Travel Tips That Will Change Your Life Forever

The First Text Message Ever Was Sent 21 Years Ago Today

RocketSkates let you zip along the sidewalk at a top speed of 12MPH

Reid’s Chocolates

SAVE OUR PODCASTS LEGAL DEFENSE FUND

Music by Amungus

For the Birthday of 'Murica episode we discuss the technology of "self-love" and the rise of the F'ables. A little talk about the MKNewsfeed scandal, the future of the indie music biz, and Brian shares his best travel tip to avoid a sprain at the TSA.

Listen or subscribe in iTunes

If you like the show please click here and give us a rating or review in iTunes. It helps us out and lets us know people want more episodes!

If you'd like to donate to the show please check out our page on TugBoat

You can now literally have sex with your iPad

AutoBlow 2

Building A Better Blowjob Machine

The AutoBlow Original for people who are looking for the original.

Oh yes! It was Crowdfunded!!!

RealTouch has been around for ages.

There's the ever popular Fucking Machines for the ladies

Arse Elektronika

'So Who Wants to F**k a Robot?'

Jacob Appelbaum on Wikipedia

Automatic Sperm Extractor Introduced Into A Chinese Hospital

"Feminism is a sexual strategy": Inside the angry online men's rights group "Red Pill"In the "manosphere," men resent women for "withholding" sex. And the scariest part is that they're far from alone

Can We Stop Saying Tinder Is Good for Women Now?

An Incompetent Attack on the Innovator's Dilemma

Why we should be celebrating the rise of robot journalism instead of criticizing it

MKNewsfeed!

The background on Project MKUltra

Facebook Experiments Had Few Limits. Data Science Lab Conducted Tests on Users With Little Oversight

What does the Facebook experiment teach us? Growing Anxiety About Data Manipulation by Danah Boyd

Facebook Got Permission To Do 'Research' On Users 4 Months After Emotion Manipulation Study

News feed: 'Emotional contagion' sweeps Facebook

Facebook tinkered with users' feeds for a massive psychology experiment

Facebook's science experiment on users shows the company is even more powerful and unethical than we thought

Facebook deliberately made people sad. This ought to be the final straw

Facebook and Engineering the Public

Everything You Need to Know About Facebook's Controversial Emotion Experiment

The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats

Medium Hires Tech Writer Steven Levy as It Moves From Platform to Publisher

Blade, a Helicopter-Booking App, to Partner With Uber

This Startup Had Over 5 Million Users And A Great Product. Then It Folded

Stop predicting music's future: The next Pixies, White Stripes or Adele will come from the indie ranks

Is This The End Of SoundCloud For DJs?

An emoji-only social network: Ridiculous … or brilliant? (Or Sharkbaiting?)

Serious Android crypto key theft vulnerability affects 86% of devices

Google Starts Removing Search Results Under Europe's 'Right to be Forgotten'

Data breaches in 2013 exposed 14% of all debit cards

Microsoft Darkens 4MM Sites in Malware Fight

How a password changed my life.

1Password with Touch ID integration in iOS 8 is truly amazing

The 1s and 0s behind cyber warfare

Disqus Wordpress Plugin Flaw Leaves Millions of Blogs Vulnerable to Hackers

Exclusive: A review of the Blackphone, the Android for the paranoid

Robogenesis: A Novel by Daniel H. Wilson

They're making a Robopocalypse movie. Maybe.

Fitbit Update

ReadMe! by Pierre DiAvisoo

The Internet's Own Boy (Paid)

The Internet's Own Boy (Free)

The Internet's Own Boy (Kickstarter)

Starz Developing 'American Gods' Series

Sherlock renewed for a 4th season and a Special!

Man vs Food star has show taken off air after 'thinspiration' rant

SAVE OUR PODCASTS LEGAL DEFENSE FUND

Music by Amungus

Hosted by Libsyn Use the coupon code "gog" while signing up & receive up to 2 months free!

For the Birthday of 'Murica episode we discuss the technology of "self-love" and the rise of the F'ables. A little talk about the MKNewsfeed scandal, the future of the indie music biz, and Brian shares his best travel tip to avoid a sprain at the TSA.

Listen or subscribe in iTunes

If you like the show please click here and give us a rating or review in iTunes. It helps us out and lets us know people want more episodes!

If you'd like to donate to the show please check out our page on TugBoat

You can now literally have sex with your iPad

AutoBlow 2

Building A Better Blowjob Machine

The AutoBlow Original for people who are looking for the original.

Oh yes! It was Crowdfunded!!!

RealTouch has been around for ages.

There's the ever popular Fucking Machines for the ladies

Arse Elektronika

'So Who Wants to F**k a Robot?'

Jacob Appelbaum on Wikipedia

Automatic Sperm Extractor Introduced Into A Chinese Hospital

"Feminism is a sexual strategy": Inside the angry online men's rights group "Red Pill"In the "manosphere," men resent women for "withholding" sex. And the scariest part is that they're far from alone

Can We Stop Saying Tinder Is Good for Women Now?

An Incompetent Attack on the Innovator's Dilemma

Why we should be celebrating the rise of robot journalism instead of criticizing it

MKNewsfeed!

The background on Project MKUltra

Facebook Experiments Had Few Limits. Data Science Lab Conducted Tests on Users With Little Oversight

What does the Facebook experiment teach us? Growing Anxiety About Data Manipulation by Danah Boyd

Facebook Got Permission To Do 'Research' On Users 4 Months After Emotion Manipulation Study

News feed: 'Emotional contagion' sweeps Facebook

Facebook tinkered with users' feeds for a massive psychology experiment

Facebook's science experiment on users shows the company is even more powerful and unethical than we thought

Facebook deliberately made people sad. This ought to be the final straw

Facebook and Engineering the Public

Everything You Need to Know About Facebook's Controversial Emotion Experiment

The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats

Medium Hires Tech Writer Steven Levy as It Moves From Platform to Publisher

Blade, a Helicopter-Booking App, to Partner With Uber

This Startup Had Over 5 Million Users And A Great Product. Then It Folded

Stop predicting music's future: The next Pixies, White Stripes or Adele will come from the indie ranks

Is This The End Of SoundCloud For DJs?

An emoji-only social network: Ridiculous … or brilliant? (Or Sharkbaiting?)

Serious Android crypto key theft vulnerability affects 86% of devices

Google Starts Removing Search Results Under Europe's 'Right to be Forgotten'

Data breaches in 2013 exposed 14% of all debit cards

Microsoft Darkens 4MM Sites in Malware Fight

How a password changed my life.

1Password with Touch ID integration in iOS 8 is truly amazing

The 1s and 0s behind cyber warfare

Disqus Wordpress Plugin Flaw Leaves Millions of Blogs Vulnerable to Hackers

Exclusive: A review of the Blackphone, the Android for the paranoid

Robogenesis: A Novel by Daniel H. Wilson

They're making a Robopocalypse movie. Maybe.

Fitbit Update

ReadMe! by Pierre DiAvisoo

The Internet's Own Boy (Paid)

The Internet's Own Boy (Free)

The Internet's Own Boy (Kickstarter)

Starz Developing 'American Gods' Series

Sherlock renewed for a 4th season and a Special!

Man vs Food star has show taken off air after 'thinspiration' rant

SAVE OUR PODCASTS LEGAL DEFENSE FUND

Music by Amungus

Hosted by Libsyn Use the coupon code "gog" while signing up & receive up to 2 months free!

This week's show is a work in progress and we were strapped for time so our new bumpers are pretty rough. All apologies. Otherwise, we make more fun of Yo!, Google I/O, Android "L"oser, and toss in some productivity talk. 

Show notes: http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/64