TechTalk appearance: Ep 397 – How to be a Jerk with Emoji

SHOW SUMMARY

News Items

• Emoji can be used for communicating good, evil, happiness, pain – or for streamlining the process of being a complete jerk. Guess which usage I’m best at?  
• Mark Zuckerberg, live (not) and in studio (also not)!  Discusses the need for a “not like” button …
• Dave and I want to start a support group for people that have actually changed their opinion on social media, because of facts and reason. We’re expecting the participants to be rather lonely …

Cool Sites of the Week

• IMGflip – Easy-to-use meme maker, so you can attach fake statistics and other falsehoods to pictures and share them on social media too!

Podcast Only Song of the Week

You and Me by Disclosure (Flume Remix)!

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Twisdom from evilrooster, September 16, 2015 at 09:43AM

The dystopia is already here -- it's just not evenly distributed. Yet.

— Abi Sutherland (@evilrooster) September 16, 2015

via Twitter https://twitter.com/evilrooster

September 16, 2015 at 09:43AM

Twisdom from pj_thompson, September 18, 2015 at 01:58PM

"Plot is what gives your characters something to do while they banter." —Elizabeth Bear, Twitter, July 29, 2010

— PanMela (@pj_thompson) September 18, 2015

via Twitter https://twitter.com/pj_thompson

September 18, 2015 at 01:58PM

Twisdom from PeteSpande, September 10, 2015 at 02:59PM

The Onion's rules for content marketing. http://pic.twitter.com/bkcxOIDgXu

— Pete Spande (@PeteSpande) September 10, 2015

via Twitter https://twitter.com/PeteSpande

September 10, 2015 at 02:59PM

TechTalk appearance: Ep 396 – Wherein Stan Asks: “What Else You Got?”

SHOW SUMMARY

GEO awards high leads to tons of nostalgia and great memories about the origin of WRLR and TechTalk. Stack and Di.

News Items

• Fake women! (… on the Ashley Madison site, that is)
• Sad Puppies lose, Hugo Awards FTW!
• Lots of nostalgia and good vibes from the recent GEO’s!

Geek Trivia Answer

What were the only 3 websites linked to from the new Google Alphabet website? (Hint: One of them can only be found by looking at the source code)

Cool Sites of the Week

• ABC.XYZ – Google’s new Alphabet website
• WRLR.FM – The TechTalk show’s home station – if you haven’t been there in a while, check it out!

Podcast Only Song of the Week

Chet Faker’s take on “No Diggity!”

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