In the last full show of the year the guys take on Sony and their cowardice. Oprah is going full Amanda Palmer. Rappers are morons. And the best gift you can get this year is a box of bullshit. Happy holidays everyone and thank you for listening!
Show Notes
INTRO
An open letter to Oprah, whose ‘The Life You Want’ tour asked me to work for free
The tyranny of pop culture “musts”: How I learned to love being out of the loop
Microsoft Employee Pens The Worst/Best Corporate Blog Post Of All Time
Celebs Lose Millions of Followers as Instagram Deletes Spambots
IN THE NEWS
From Lycos to Ask Jeeves to Facebook: Tracking the 20 most popular web sites every year since 1996
People Who Bought Boxes Of Sh*t From Cards Against Humanity Were Actually Surprised To Receive Sh*t
Facebook Starts Auto-Enhancing Photos Because Algorithms Are Better At Filters Than You
Neal Stephenson joins mysterious augmented reality company Magic Leap
External traffic to Spanish news sites plummets after Google move
Warner Music Says It Loves Streaming Music — As Long as Listeners Are Paying for It
Facebook: We Don’t Call Them ‘Users’ Any More, We Call Them ‘People’
Hustle Behind The Wheel: What It’s Like To Be An Uber Driver
Uber Turned on Surge Pricing for People Fleeing Sydney Hostage Scene
SECURITY? HAH!
Hackers tell Sony they won’t release more data because it scrapped The Interview
Pirate Bay Responds To The Raid, Copies And The Future
Sony hit with lawsuit by former employees over email leaks
Cyberattack on German Iron Plant Causes ‘Widespread Damage’
Report: Mysterious Russian Malware Is Infecting 100,000+ WordPress Sites
SoakSoak: Payload Analysis – Evolution of Compromised Sites – IE 11
The Dawn of the Flying Smartphone
Burner phone? There’s an app for that, and it’s earning millions of dollars
MEDIA CANDY
Black Mirror’s special is the grim Christmas TV you need
The Black Mirror Christmas Special Is Brilliant and Disturbing
The 25 Best Podcast Episodes Ever
THE WEB’S NOT DEAD
Magnum v. Solo, sequence comparison
Honest Trailers – Love Actually
I Rewatched Love Actually and Am Here to Ruin It for All of You
