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! 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!   Show Notes 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! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

18 Juli 20141h 47min

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! Show Notes 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 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

11 Juli 20141h 6min

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 Show Notes 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! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

4 Juli 20141h 27min

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 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

27 Juni 20141h 23min

It's a good week for us. Yo!, Slingshot, and Washboard are all the buzz and we're all left scratching our heads on what the hell is going on. Brian apologizes. Jason is sick as a dog and contrary to Brians accusations, there was only 1 swig of Jamesons. Show Notes at: http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/63   Show Notes What Elon Musk did — and did not — do when he “opened” Tesla’s patents Does the World Cup Have a Lingua Franca? Two Dots update THE DISRUPTION MACHINE This startup that will sell you $10 of Quarters for $14.99 People Invested $1 Million In An App That Just Says ‘Yo’ Facebook launches Slingshot Amazon Fire Phone Amazon’s Fire Phone might be the biggest privacy invasion ever (and no one’s noticed) Amazon starting their Mobile Ad offering with a $6 guaranteed CPM for the first few months. YouTube Confirms Subscription Service Imminent, Warns of Takedowns SoundExchange DIGITAL RADIO REPORT Dr. Oz’s bad medicine It’s Official, You Can Finally View GIFs on Twitter Which VPN Services Take Your Anonymity Seriously? 2014 Edition Private Internet Access AT&T offers customers affected by data breach one year of credit monitoring US Marshal CCs, rather than BCCs, those interested in anonymous Bitcoin auction Robert Scoble thinks privacy advocates have "overstepped their bounds", has useful advice for victims of violent stalkers, and is jealous of your threesomes SmartWater CSI Proton Mail begging for money The Long Mars It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens The Sweet Set-up Jason on Quit! Reeder 2 for Mac Reeder 2 for iOS Swarm Tech Douchebags Jason on Tech Douchebags Safety First with Jordan Cooper The Feed by Libsyn Today in iOS Negativland gives away ‘U2’ multi-track master, invites fans to remix infamous single https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6gPSSYxex0 Very cool little music tool Ringly - Vibration goodie for your phone Marpac Dohm-DS Dual Speed Sound Conditioner Philips Hf3321 goLITE BLU This Graphic Shows How Americans Spend Money In Real Time Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2h1TOfeVFA Fermented Turmeric Tea See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

20 Juni 20141h 14min

We discuss the dark side of the quantified self and discuss the tools of laziness, which for the next 30 days are mainly beer and soccer. Some goodness in the world of patents and how F-Me money might just save the day. Show notes: http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/62 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

13 Juni 201459min

It's an interestingly grumpy and funny week as the guys talk about Orange is the New Black, WWDC, the state of the Internet and Google and Facebooks stranglehold on content as well as a journalist who's gone rogue. Some interesting security news & more! Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/61 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

6 Juni 20141h 25min

Brian's up in arms about crowdfunding again but in a good way. Jason reviews the Shine by Misfit and a new book on sleep. Google has a crappy new car and we both agree that the Internet needs to consciously uncouple from Gwyneth Paltrow for good. Show notes: http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/60 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

30 Maj 20141h 19min