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Podcast 92 – At least in Russia

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 20:32:03 +0000

“The range of whistleblowers that have exposed wrongdoing.” / ^Ron Paul nihilist hacker guy.^ / “The mainstreaming of the concept…overloaded with so many different meanings.” / ^I hope they look at the sucess of the Model S.^ / ^It’s like Ben Franklin said.^ / ^All of the classic hallmarks–somewhat legendary.^ / ^I don’t see change coming out of the two parties.^ / ^Deeper into the civil war in Syria..small arms and ammunition to rebel forces.^ / “Absolutely over-broad.”

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show notes

The loyal Democrats strike back against the whisteblower: Bob Cesca talks Edward Snowden on his podcast.

Jesse Ventura and Alex Jones.

Jason from Henderson. [pt. 2]

“Overly Attached Uncle Sam.”

Bill Clinton and others talked Barack Obama into arming Syrian rebels against his better judgement, says the New York Times.

My novel ‘Crossing the Continental Divide.’

Vladimir Putin critiques American “signals intelligence.”

Larry Flynt on Republicans.

(The London) Suede – “Sabatoge.”

Podcast 91 – Flaky sugary buttery texture

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 23:03:05 +0000

‘^Hair icon^: debatable’ / “Apparently scoring movies isn’t as fun as it sounds.” / “Incredibly strange Internet stuff.” / “Card-like.” / ‘Bands that yell at you.’ / ‘Reminds me of the 90s.’ / “I don’t want to pre-roll ads.”

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show notes

Industrial Music:

Filter: “Self Inflicted.”

Stabbing Westward: “So Far Away.”

New blog from the creator of the now-shuttered okcgoldmine.com site: i-ppl.com.

My Youtube channel trailer.

Apple WWDC announcements include iOS 7 [with re-designed UI, photo filters, background updates to apps, iTunes radio & iCloud Airdrop].

Two of my favorite iPhone camera replacement apps to use instead of the default iOS 6 camera: 645 Pro and PureShot from jag.gr.

iBooks on Mac (and an update to Mac OS X called Mavericks [somewhat technical PDF from Apple]; also new MacBook Airs and Mac Pros.)

My novel.

Jessica explains the cronut and the doissant.

PRISM program exposed. Edward Snowden steps forward (from Hong Kong) as a leaker of government info on spying programs; Daniel Ellsberg says this may be the biggest leak in American history; Julian Assange praises Snowden’s actions. Mark Udall (Democratic Senator from Colorado) wants to re-consider the PATRIOT Act. Barack Obama probably still wants to “look forward.”

The BBC probably regretted booking Alex Jones for their Sunday politics program (he was there in Britain to float by the Bilderberg group meeting on a barge).

Byword text/markdown editor (for Mac).

Jeremy Scahill and Chris Hayes compare Obama to his predecessor George W. Bush.

Bill Maher brings a little realism to the discussion of Ronald Reagan’s legacy.

: photo by Jessica

Podcast 90: Interference with creativity

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 05:54:26 +0000

“Chickens in the forest.” / “Not just unfounded beliefs..wrongheaded beliefs.” / “Large stretch of wetlands…Near the Hackensack River.” / ^I poured things out of their bottle.^ / “Way off in the distance was the city.” / ^The thronging constellations rush in crowds.^

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show notes

McGruff the crime dog via everythingisterrible.com.

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley on Kindle.

Jessica’s blog post with her photos from the anti-Monsanto protest in Cleveland.

Sony DEV– 50V/B digital recording binoculars.

Birdwatching at the Meadowlands Environmental Center.

My 2 iPhones.

SunrizerXS iOS synth app.

OSU president Gordon Gee quits after comments about “those damn Catholics.”

Feedly (cloud RSS app) offers roadmap, including word on ‘Normandy project’; announces that other apps (like Reeder and Press) will be able to use Feedly data.

‘Love lessons for Single “Happy” Girls; A Book Project’ on Kickstarter.

“You can’t separate your thoughts from reality. [video]”

Burger King arrives in South Africa.

Podcast 89 – I like to just go with what I see

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Fri, 31 May 2013 19:47:00 +0000

‘Reply, file, delete.’ / “We need to get more of your rhymes on the streets.” / ‘My Facebook feed is all brands and companies.’ / “I use a POP3 account” / ^Party pics with Solo cups on Webshots.^ / “Meta-categories of email types.”

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show notes

Webshots users reacting to deletion of data.

DM1 drum machine app for iPhone.

Arctic Keys keyboard app (by One Red Dog Media) for iPhone.

Colorado passes laws aimed at regulating the sale of marijuana (which was legalized there in 2012).

WeAreChange.org took video at an anti-Monsanto event in New York. We discussed being at the protest in Cleveland and taking pictures in podcast #88. ABC News wrote about it online as Jessica noted.

Republican Rep. Michelle Bachmann quitting Congress. She once said that the media should “take a look” to see if House and Senate members are “anti-America.”

Baby survives being flushed in China.

Gmail App for iPhone.

Google’s video about the new Gmail inbox.

Mailbox App for iPhone.

['First Day of Dinosaur Skool' artwork by Jessica.]

Podcast 88 – Not many artists are better than their remix

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Mon, 27 May 2013 03:49:10 +0000

‘I would have invited people to come up and share their stories.” / “Don’t you think we have the right to know what’s in our food?” / “The dynamics of letting people talk.” / ‘A big mesh of images.’ / ‘A lot of them are using genetically modified [seeds].’ / “When you said Pinterest-ization…” / “And a few people walked into the burrito place when we were leaving who I think had been protesting.”

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Co-hosted by Jessica.

show notes

Natasha Leggero on Duncan Trussell’s podcast: “Commercials…Creating empires by tricking dumb people [~45min].”

Adam Kokesh arrested at a marijuana legalization rally in Philadelphia; he had been trying to organize an armed march on Washington D.C. from Virginia on July 4; released a few days later. The Tactical Response guy threw cold water on the gun march plans.

Heckler interrupts Barack Obama speech over drones and Guantanamo.

Justice Department spied on AP reporters; should Eric Holder resign?

Republican Senator Rand Paul wants to keep drugs illegal, of course.

Protesters around the world against Monsanto and GMO foods: Jessica’s photos from the Cleveland protest.

My book, Crossing the Continental Divide now has its first edition and is for sale in the Amazon Kindle store.

MS MR – Hurricane (CHVRCHES Remix) on SoundCloud.

Flickr redesigns its site. [My Flickr photos.]

Lisa Lampanelli uses racist word on Twitter, Wendy Williams responds. Lena Dunham responds.

Podcast 87 – gBom[b]s

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:42:58 +0000

“Even those 00s mouth looks.” / “He gets involved in some gaming racket.” / “A flood of stuff.” / ‘The blue dots mean it’s unread.” / “Furthermore people can screenshot.” / ‘Spex.’ / “I don’t want to go bolt it on now.” / “The ‘selfie.’”

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show notes

Fred Armisen and Google Glass.

Alex Jones wrongly cites 1798 as being when the Constitution was drafted, #LOL.

Free and open source RSS Reader for Mac: Vienna RSS [on GitHub].

Book: Paintwork by Tim Maughan splits into two halves, one about an English gamer and virtual space artist and one about a competitive augmented reality gaming competition in Cuba.

China gaming sweatshops [2005].

I made a video about Cleveland and its lousy economy and how people here are scared of their neighbors.

Snapchat doesn’t really delete photos?

“86″ by Green Day.

So what is going on in Cleveland?

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Mon, 13 May 2013 22:51:03 +0000

What’s with Cleveland? People are scared of their neighbors. I talk foreclosures, #HappyInCle & gun culture, and also take on Michael Symon’s style of boosterism, my awful neighbors and the idiot governor. I also discuss why the area needs considerable economic stimulus.

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links:
Rachel Maddow interviews a Cleveland detective.
Paul Krugman.

Podcast 86 – The drones among them

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Wed, 08 May 2013 14:15:08 +0000

‘Fruit cup for 4 dollars.’ / “Right now a lot of the same idiots are saying there should be a war against Syria.” / “They’re not new though.” / “This might be taking it to a new level.” / “‘Ways that are upwards and ways that are manifest.’” / “This nonsense talk about ‘red lines.’” / “Have you heard how stupid that thing is?”/ ‘You can play yoga in [GTAV].” / “A distinctive bass sound.” / “The answers, or something.”

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show notes – Episode #86

Jean short overalls?

Pat Buchanan on RT.

Rachel Maddow show on the Bush Library.

Andy Rourke joins Johnny Marr onstage for “How Soon is Now?”

“4th Amendment rights stripped..chanting U.S.A! U.S.A! We are embarrassed!”

Glenn Beck on (??).

Jedis and marriage.

GTA V: Epsilonism.

Podcast 85 – Possibly inevitable

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Mon, 06 May 2013 23:00:08 +0000

“I don’t see a bookmarklets bar.” / “The old email client model.” / “At least there’s something in there.” / “Export your feeds.” / “Fast following.” / “You can play full songs as you discover them.”

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Eagle Man: “I’ve got something for you.”

Police (somewhere out in Pennsylvania) outrage an angry crank as they refuse to arrest marijuana smokers.

RSS Toaster for Mac.

Google adds ‘Google Now’ functionality to its iOS search app.

Delta Gamma sorority sister writes a letter released by Gawker (which was then read by Michael Shannon and Alison Haislip among others) that probably represents sororities and “Greek” culture on many campuses pretty well ["cock block...cunt punt.."].

Drafts app for iOS [now in version 3]: Compose text files and then send them to Evernote, Dropbox, email, and much more.

Youtube Capture: create and upload videos on your iPhone.

Birds of Paradise!

Apple is issuing bonds at less than a percent above 10-year Treasury bonds.

Twitter #Music app released for iPhone: uses Twitter data to suggest music, uses Spotify to play full songs. (The app moved down the charts precipitously after a couple weeks.)

Warning issued (over health concerns) for the popular Youtube meme ”cinnamon challenge” (which has been tried by such online icons as Miranda).

NBA player Jason Collins comes out as gay.

Gay marriage arrives in France amidst vociferous protest for and against.

“All he has to show for it is this stuffed banana with dreadlocks.”

SoundCloud iPhone app. Outro track via.

My Videos: Deer in the forest preserve and the sequel Deer in the forest preserve #2.

Podcast 84 – Austerity mongers

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:51:12 +0000

“This number doesn’t hold.” / “Very very avoidable people.” / “People need to look into the actual data [about government debt] instead of the stupid political rhetoric.” / “There’s a shack-like little house right next door to the railroad tracks has been for sale for a while.” / “Bottom-feeder so-called news outlets.”

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show notes

Now John Gruber is being paid to shill for Microsoft.

White Noise app for iPhone and Mac; iOS in-app purchase for sound creator tool: my free custom sound “Parakeets and Bells [.wna file].”

Paul Krugman on “The Excel Depression.”

Will Microsoft bring back the “Start” button in Windows 8.1? [Windows 8 still looks stupid.]

Runnners in downtown Cleveland join in series of impromptu #BostonStong runs.

Glenn Greenwald on Sam Harris and other self-identified atheists who for some reason seem to hate Islam more than Christianity.

Glenn Beck’s widely-dismissed “Saudi” theory.

Golfer Bubba Watson crying.

Outro song: Salt Water (single mix).

Podcast 83 – Down in Haiku later in the day

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:00:28 +0000

“Venture capital ‘environmentalism.’” / “Chicago…it’s gridlock.” / “People freak out over the stupid scenes that have more animated animals.” / “Germany has wisely decided to phase out nuclear power.” / “That one I fed hay.” / “Pilot J.” / “San Francisco, where you’re just a guru.” / “She knew all the goats.” / “Futurist technologist.” / “I’ve already shared my dislike for [Jimmy Haslem, the owner of the Browns] because he’s into fracking.”

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show notes

Goats at the Surfing Goat Dairy in Maui.

Fluoride!?!!

John Holdren, science advisor to President Obama.

Paul R. Ehrlich & The Population Bomb.

DJMcloud Podcast soundboard.

Cleveland Browns owner’s business investigated.

Screaming goats.

Cleveland Cavaliers fire Byron Scott.

iSteve movie.

Jessica’s blog post: “Nice to Meet You, Gurudev.”

John Siracusa on Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography.

“Very Jedi-ish person” via okcgoldmine.com.

pacificpelican Youtube channel.

Podcast 82 – On trolleys in corridors

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 10:53:41 +0000

“Gold and seeds.” / “That term in reverse.” / “This chained CPI thing: it’s a cut.” / “Republican activists that are pushing that far-right agenda.” / “Basically just a tax on everyone.” / ‘The professional Right.’ / “The money that prohibition leaves on the table.”

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show notes

Right-wing talker Mark Levin rants about the RNC.

“Fox Contributor Star Parker Compares Congressional Black Caucus To Slave Masters.”

MP Glenda Jackson tells the truth about Margaret Thatcher.

I said this earlier: “Margaret Thatcher was a dumb bully whose cuts in public investment pain Britain to this day; she was heaved from office in 1990 & forgotten.”

Barack Obama is again negotiating with himself (as TPM reports), this time offering to cut Social Security. This move is not going over well with the left, and will cost the president support and popularity (probably for the rest of his term).

Jessica’s site.

“Pacific Shores” song from Neener 2.

Elizabeth Warren asks Obama administration regulators about why they’re protecting the banks even as they withhold the evidence of those banks’ illegal activities from the victims of illegal foreclosures.

“Anti-gun crap.”

“Pack a backpack with some food in it.”

Dan Benjamin: “I’m 40 years old!..Air this!!..Don’t dazzle me with a star pattern!!”

DJMcloud Podcast 81 – It has a little story

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:08:28 +0000

‘Sneaky sneakster.’ / “Maybe the environment creating the expression of the genetic propensity.” / “Caught the attention of a lot of people around the world–I think.” / “They seem to see a world that other people don’t see.” / ‘This false reality..’ / “Her embrace of radical, nontraditional ideas.” / “The reasons for that are not outlined well.” / ”A protest of the repressive culture.”

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show notes

Tim O’Reilly asked me if he ran over my dog. [I don't own a dog. I do have birds.] Who thinks about stuff like that? Was he trying to be funny? Or…? Anyway here’s what I said that got him so defensive:

I was excited to read the attack piece on @timoreilly by @evgenymorozov until I realized it was like a bad book report on software politics. [link]

Blending the smug-rich-guy-meme-maker of today‘s @timoreilly with the biz-shilling-publishing-hype-man 90s version is lazy @evgenymorozov [link]

So I’m really sharing my distaste for a disappointing article written about O’Reilly, which (as I interpreted it) started with a deceptively easy goal: expose the mushy hype at the core of the publishing magnate’s thinking by considering his own words. A goal at which I thought it mostly failed [when I despaired of it being any good and clicked away halfway though.] After O’Reilly’s lame reply I continued:

“@timoreilly: @pacificpelican @evgenymorozov So did I run over your dog too?” No. I just don’t like the way you launder & amplify bad ideas. [link]

Which is true. Though I would have hoped that classics scholar O’Reilly would have worked in a Cerberus reference when talking about dogs. Anyway I continued:

I stopped caring about what @timoreilly says a long time ago. I had hoped @evgenymorozov would convince other smart people to do the same. [link]

Instead the article by @evgenymorozov was so poorly constructed and easily part-refuted by @timoreilly from his perch at G+ that I wondered. [link]

I don’t really care, as I said, and I think that eventually a lot of thinking people are going to realize what he’s up to. But in the Google+ post he wrote linking to it, O’Reilly went as far as to say he found the Morozov article “entertaining and informative.” Two things he consistently fails to be.

New Yorker article about feminist writer Shulamith Firestone.

Tila Tequila on World War 3.

“Assassin of Youth” movie from 1937.

Topless female protesters in Germany call Putin a dictator.

Tunisia’s ‘Amina Tyler‘ and other subsequent protests by women.

The Dorse Issue #1 for May 2013.

“On The Hunt” video by @gemllama.

“Jason from Henderson.”

DJMcloud Podcast LXXX – Members of the co-op are supposed to volunteer

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 05:58:54 +0000

“Maybe half-read it.” / “A lot of crop circles.” / ‘You can start by not believing the people who lied to you before.’ / “They’re buying that audience.” / ‘If you are an alcoholic, you need pizza.’ / “I’m not sure if one side of him is already in heaven, or what.” / “Android seems to be where they get a lot of their identity from.”

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show notes

Video: Michael Moore: “[Iranian president] Ahmadinejad is building a bomb? I’ll believe it, you know, when he walks in the room here with it and shows it to me!”

Apple now requires 1400×1400 images for podcast artwork, so I made a California palm trees picture with birds on a stoplight the new DJMcloud podcast logo.

Stonehenge.

Is the new Gmail compose window (at the bottom right) a good idea? (No.)

The DJMcloud Podcast soundboard has some new audio files added to it. The episode number for this podcast has been moved up to 80 (LXXX) since it is actually the 80th episode in the series when including episodes 0 and 10.1.

Amazon buys book social network Goodreads, which includes a laughable readers’ top-rated books list filled with garbage.

@_FloridaMan tweets about the “real-life stories of the world’s worst superhero.”

A book is out called ”A Story of God and All of Us: A Novel Based on the Epic TV Miniseries ‘The Bible.’”

Illinois Republican Senator Mark Kirk “suffered a massive stroke last year and later told the press that three angels had appeared at his hospital bedside to ask if he was ready to join them in heaven.”

King of the Hill: ‘Raise the Steaks‘ episode.

Neo-Prohibitionist propaganda falls by wayside as a majority of Americans favor marijuana legalization.

DJMcloud Podcast 77 – I heard Portishead the other day

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 10:02:19 +0000

“Get rid of the guy who won the Cy Young.” / “I think I talked over the swear.” / “It auto-plays her music sort of like a Myspace page.” / ‘And it’s really cold.’ / “Semi-hidden functionality.” / ‘Fans got a little upset, but, you know.’ / “That person with her office uptown.” / “The same stupid video tricks.” / “A more metallic kind of look.” / “Not just Moondance.”

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show notes

Chicago Tribune: “The owner of a scrap company where the remains of several school buses were found after being stolen from the Far South Side has been charged with illegal possession of auto titles, police said.”

4-year old in Union, New Jersey found living with days-old dead body, trying to care for it by applying lotion.

Ohio’s “Average Homeboy” has a Kickstarter.

And singer Megan Zurkey has a Kickstarter.

Will the Cleveland Indians home opener be another soggy letdown this year?

New pause/skip interface in iOS 6.1 when double-tapping the home button while audio is playing–looks nicer but moved to the top.

Looking at replacements for Google Reader:

Feedly: syncs quickly with Google account and grabs feeds; claims it will survive the end of Google Reader; offers Android, iOS, Kindle and Chrome apps.

The Old Reader: says it’s based on, well, the old [Google] Reader. Imports feeds (supposedly–has taken days for me and is still not there) based on XML file exported via Google Takeout.

More on Google Reader being shut down: Why should anyone trust Google now to keep their data?

Neener song “Gravitons” was played on the Rathole Radio podcast last September.

The river downtown in Chicago – an iconic location, a difficult photographic target

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:52:16 +0000

I wandered around East Wacker Drive in Chicago when staying at a nearby hotel recently. Hoping to meet Jessica during a break from her conference, I walked across the Chicago River on the Michigan Avenue bridge and found her at the U of C conference facility’s cafeteria. When she was due to return for the afternoon sessions, I walked back to the hotel on the other side of the river and, despite the sprinkling of rain that prevented me from bringing my Nikon camera, I used my iPhone 4S to capture a few photos.
Some of the photos I took were interesting from a technical perspective–for example, an upriver shot was not at all beautiful aesthetically given the appalling architecture on the north bank there before the bend but which still revealed an interesting artifact of the 4S’s depth of field and where it ends along the river where detail of buildings offers a rich test of the issue where many deep backgrounds offer only gradients and sameness.
But there were a few I liked because they looked good, more or less. The images are compelling to me–but I have had to sadly reject the only photo in the group that was lined up the way I liked, because it was too dark and some 45 degrees off of where it should have been aimed–but that would have made it mis-aligned too. I don’t know.

DJMcloud Podcast 76 – the minute it comes out

podcast@danieljmckeown.com (Daniel J. McKeown) — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 10:52:38 +0000

‘I want your content give it to me the minute it comes out.’ / ‘What can he really do?’ / “Background color gradation on the way the staircase is painted.” / ‘Nestled up there, just at the base of the hills.’ / “It’s so key.” / ‘Along the promenade…sleepy little beach town.’ / “I took a phone camera picture.” / “Marginal value in taking all this data down.” / “It’s just a lot more direct.”

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show notes [recorded March 13, 2013; hosted by me and Jessica]

LA: Hollywood; Watts Towers, obelisk, colored stairs; Venice Beach; pelican at Long Beach.

Al fresco dining.

Newly elected Pope is a Jesuit.

Google Reader RSS client is shutting down.