Live from the Formosa, Session Four

by Steven Garrity

This afternoon Peter Rukavina, Dan James, and I recorded a new session of Live at the Formosa, live at the, uh, Formosa.

Live at the Formosa is an occasional radio show (I’m still ashamed of the word “podcast”, but I’ll get over it) we record at the Formosa Tea House, a regular lunch haunt of ours. We talk about technology, the universe, and everything.

This is our longest session to date (about an hour-and-a-half). So far I’ve never been sure that I would actually listen to any of these shows if I weren’t in them. However, people seem to have enjoyed them, and I think there is some compelling discussion in this episode.

Peter has the show notes and download available on his site: Live From the Formosa Tea House, Session Four.

I have some cool friends.

 

by Steven Garrity

Live streaming video of the shuttle launch from inside the freakin’ shuttle!

 

by Steven Garrity

Intriguing video demos of a two-hand touch surface as a coputer input device – includes tactile feedback (I’ve always wondered why a computer mouse doesn’t give tactile feedback)

 

by Steven Garrity

Your Mom Reads My Blog

 

by Steven Garrity

The yellow Don’t @#%*ing tell me who to support ribbon

 

by Steven Garrity

Remarkable PBS Frontline episode about private contractors working for the US in Iraq (online in streaming Real or Windows media formats)

 

by Steven Garrity

Sad photo of Paris 2012 Olympic paraphanalia being sold off (probably photoshopped)

 

by Steven Garrity

Google is now in the top 100 largest companies in the world. It was incorporated only 7 years ago.

 

Intellectual Property Rights Vs. Human Rights

by Steven Garrity

Just as I was feeling good about humanity, I visit the CBC Streaming Audio page only to see this message:

Due to rights issues around the Live 8 concert, CBC.ca will stop streaming all CBC Radio One signals at 1 p.m. ET on Saturday, July 2. The streaming will resume sometime after 4 a.m. ET on Sunday July 3.

Rights issues for a human rights concert!? Come on.

 

Live 8 in my Living Room

by Steven Garrity

Every once and a while I get an insight into just how extraordinary much of the technology we take for granted actually is.

This Saturday morning in my living room in a small city in the northeastern tip of North America, I was walking around with my little laptop. The speakers on the laptop were playing the live audio of Bono and 200,000 people singing Unchained Melody in Hyde Park in London.