Category Archives: Technology

Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town

Written by Joseph Matheny. Filed under Books, Technology, book reviews, cory doctorow. 2 Comments.
  Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town Book by Cory Doctorow Review by Beth Boyle In the old stories, the ones that weren’t written down, the ones that existed before Disney had a chance to capture them and clean them up, magic just was; there was no disbelief to suspend. There was magic because the world was [...]

Turning Teleconferences into Podcasts

Written by Joseph Matheny. Filed under DIY, Podcasts, Technology, Web, empowerment, open source. 3 Comments.
Turning Teleconferences into Podcasts Wes Unruh I once worked for a teleconference company as an operator, so I’ve got years of experience eavesdropping on the most irritatingly mundane business calls you can imagine. I’m still doing teleconferences, but now I do them with whoever I want as a way to create online content. Not [...]

I Love Big Brother

Written by Joseph Matheny. Filed under Conspiracy, Politics, Technology, Web, big brother, surveillance. 1 Comment.
I Love Big Brother by Jason Stackhouse Breaking the law is harder in my latest hometown, where the traffic lights sprout a new crop of cameras every spring. It’s a seasonal ritual around here: the cops give notice, our local paper prints angry letters, and when the clamor fades there’s another eye watching me. It’s not worth waving [...]

The G-Spot Episode 2

Written by Joseph Matheny. Filed under 9 11, Conspiracy, G-Spot, Podcasts, Psychedelia, Technology, Transhumanism, leary. 4 Comments.
In this episode: Jason Lubyk talks with former Mondo 2000 co-founder and co-editor RU Sirius (Ken Goffman) about his new book True Mutations, Timothy Leary, the current state of psychedelic culture, the wacky world of 9/11 conspiracies and much more. Music by Weerd Science, Dreamcode, Zen Debris, Der Kopf, Evernight, Dead Alive, and Oud.