Results tagged “opensource”

Christopher Lydon's Open Source did a show last night, "One Nation, Under Surveillance," partially inspired by Jonathan Raban's new book Surveillance and his article in the Guardian, "We have mutated into a surveillance society -- and must share the blame."

This is the all-geek edition of Get Out. If you're a normal person with friends and fully-functional social skills you may want to stay in this first Monday in December.

Whenever we have to pass by a Books On Tape section of a retail giant we get kind of weirded out by the selection. Dan Brown, Self Help, Self Help, Dan Brown, Mitch Albom, Self Help. Hey self helpers, step one to recovery is setting enough time aside to sit the fuck down and read a book. There are some uses, though. A friend of Seattlest's was so bored at an undemanding job up in B'ham that he took to feeding NYT and Harpers articles through a text-to-speech program and slapping them on his iPod so MSMary could read him the news while he did his busywork. We'd like to take this opportunity to point him to LibriVox.

We're not Lydonistas -- while we're fans of Open Source, we catch maybe one show in eight, usually via podcast. But since helping them decide on a topic for their Seattle show, we've returned from time to time to their web site. When we have an idea, we suggest a show topic.

Did you miss Michael Pollan when he was in town last month? Even though we told you to go?

Ok we all know that the Ricky Gervais podcast is the greatest thing to ever appear on the internet and everyone has a favorite random cast that they subscribe to, but what are the best Seattle-focused podcasts? We’ll give you a list of our favorites, but we’re willing to be turned on to any others.

After Wired ran a story documenting the GoogleCenter of the United States a bunch of ists jumped on the opportunity to figure out their own middle. Gothamist, Chicagoist, Bostonist and Seattlest all zoomed in on their creamy GoogleCenters. A crack cartography team is hard at work determining the GoogleCenter of the Ist-a-verse as you read this...

is doing a Seattle-centric show this week.

, as often as we'd like. We rarely have the radio on at 9:00 p.m., but we do download their podcast.