Jason’s taking a personal day so guest host Fergal Lyons joins to talk waterparking, Star Wars, parenting in the digital age, Uber, hacking your fitbit & plane tickets, religion, AbFab & Mythbusters all while drinking high alcohol content beers.
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Show Notes
INTRO
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
“Boycott ‘Star Wars VII'” Movement Launched; Movie Called “Anti-White”
‘Back to the Future’ Writer: Biff Tannen Is Based on Donald Trump
Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat Are All-In With New Anti-Bullying Emoji
IN THE NEWS
Struggling Yahoo Will Begin Relying on Google to Improve Its Search
Airbnb ad campaign in San Francisco riles locals and librarians
Apple Music Has 6.5 Million Paying Subscribers
Benchmark’s Bill Gurley Is Talking to You, Unicorns: ‘Private Valuations Are Fake’
Scientists at Large Hadron Collider hope to make contact with PARALLEL UNIVERSE in days
NASA Researchers 99.9% Certain SoCal Is Getting A Big Quake Soon
Controversial study claims 99.9 percent chance of major Los Angeles earthquake in 3 years
Googlers Living at Google: Tiny Spaces, Probably No Sex
Number of London’s ‘working poor’ surges 70% in 10 years
SECURITY? HAH!
Botnet earns cash by generating fake listens on Spotify
U.S. investigating report email account linked to CIA director hacked
Why You Should Eat Your Airplane Boarding Pass Once You Take Your Seat
What’s in a Boarding Pass Barcode? A Lot
Target stores attacked by pornographic pranksters
’10-second’ theoretical hack could jog Fitbits into malware-spreading mode.
How safe is your quantified self? Tracking, monitoring, and wearable tech.
Fitbit Trackers Can Apparently Be Hacked In 10 Seconds
Apple issues fixes for a “shedload” of vulnerabilities
SOFTWARE, APPS & GADGETS
stone stochasticity project – your father smelt of elderberries
MEDIA CANDY
Hajj Stampede Death Toll Raised to a Staggering 2,121
Hot Chip covers Springsteen’s “Dancing In the Dark” with the most amazing retro ’80s video ever
Amazon goes after Fake Reviews
See the first image of Edina and Patsy together in Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
MythBusters Is Ending in 2016 After 2,950 Experiments
ARE YOU KIDDING ME
Mind-Blowing Fruit and Vegetable Facts That Will Seem Obvious in Retrospect
Boo! A Decent-Size Asteroid Will Safely Pass Earth on Halloween.
