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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.
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Technolotics #20 – Christmas Special Needs
[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/20_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 20 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes The American Paradox This years winner of the nobel prize for literature, the playwright Harold Pinter, addressed the Academy on the topic of American Imperialism [Hear / See / Read his lecturehttp://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/2005/pinter-lecture.html] Since WW2 American has overthrown socialist regiemes, and put into power totalitarian regiemes and military juntas, trainned… Read more
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Technolotics #19 – One vulcan, two geeks and a monkey spanker
Listen: Episode 19 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes Police State Miami Although Miami hasn’t been hit by a terrorist attack – authorities convinced it is a credible target To confuse Al Qaida and other wanabe terrorist – displays of force And maybe [1] maybe not [2] unconstitutional random ID checks Police state anyone? News Sources disagree as to… Read more
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Technolotics #18 – Brains’ Blind Date
Listen: Episode 18 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Notes Lies Damn Lies and the Recording Industry An article has been published in the New York times about the file sharing revolution Sean Fanning has developed software called snocap, that subtitutes requested copyrighted content on P2P networks with low quality versions which include verbal adds for the full version. Ha… Read more
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Technolotics #17 – Perfectly Spherical Balls
[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/17_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 17 Watch: Youtube Feed: RSS Perfect spheres into space to check Einstein’s theory The Gravity Probe B satellite [1] was launched by NASA to measure the curvature and rotation of space time around earth [2] Testing two unverified predictions of general relativity – frame dragging and the The Geodetic Effect – which have implications for… Read more
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Technolotics #16 – No sex on the douche bag
[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/16_part1_technolotics.mp3] [audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/16_part2_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Part 1, Part 2 Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8qGAe0WDSo Feed: http://technolotics.wordpress.com/feed/ Notes Googleblogger article Google mobile is a new suite of features for US cell phones Google mobile search – lets you search the web from your phones web browser Google SMS – texts answers to your questions, directly to your phone – still very glitchy [1] Google… Read more
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Technolotics #15 – How to deal with ugly kids
[audio https://garethstack.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/15_technolotics.mp3] Listen: Episode 15 Feed: RSS Notes New service offers podcasters 25c a download! Fruitcast will soon launch, the service works by inserting adds in podcasts, and offering podcasters [1] up to 25c per download [2] This could add up to a hefty premium if true – but critics are divided as to whether the greater specificity… Read more
