Information Salad #81: The “We Have Soundclips” Edition
By Slobokan | March 29, 2008
This week, we’re recording the show live now, no more post-edit. Yikes!
- Stuffr is so close, but WordPress 2.5 is coming, so the release of Stuffr will be released.
- Quotably is brilliant, but it just guesses which tweets belong in which threads.
- Have you seen Loren Feldman’s new project? It rocks!
- We talk about the impending demise (if it hasn’t already happened yet) of FastCompany.TV
- The fact that this story is news is stupid. Nancy Reagan is not stupid, the people who made sure this was news, are.
- Michelle Obama thinks typical Americans are feel justified in their own ignorance.
- Bill Richardson says that Barack Obama’s candidacy for president a “once in a lifetime opportunity”. Why is is a once in a lifetime opportunity?
- The controversy is not about Rev. Wright. It’s about Barack Obama’s inconsistent comments on the issue.
- People need to stop drinking the Kool-Aid. Most people don’t have the intimate connection to their pastor that Barack Obama obviously had (heck, just look at his book). Are you on drugs Bill Maher?
- TSA is getting very thorough in their airport checks, aren’t they? Beware of those nipple ring smugglers.
- Check out the material coming out of the public education system.
- We talk American Idol for the first time this season. David Cook nailed it. Absolutely nailed it. Brooke White is absolutely amazing. Vinny says she will win this season. I hope he’s right.
- Jack Rousch is blowing a gasket.
- Stupid Person Of The Week: We’re not sure who’s the bigger idiot, the guy who shot a hole in the wall to drill a hole for a satellite antenna wire and killed his wife, or the reporter that says this is something all of us have tried at home.
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Information Salad #80: Vinny Tosses His Cookies So You Don’t Have To
By Slobokan | March 22, 2008
This week, we’re on quite a roll. Slobo has a head cold, Vinny tosses his dinner, but it gets much better before the end of the show.
- The quality of a website design has no bearing on the quality of a podcast, does it?
- Slobokan has been trying all week to get video of the birdseed eating woodpecker.
- Vinny got a Nokia N810 this week. It’s a cool little toy. It’s the perfect couch browser.
- Castleberry Foods has more trouble. They’ve been shutdown.
- For years now we have ignored the problems in other countries, until it was too late. When are we going to wake up? We should be boycotting the entire Beijing Olympics, or at least the opening ceremonies.
- The Catholic Church is talking about some new social sins. Should they really be talking about excessive wealth as a sin?
- You have to check out the TechRooster. He’s a fucking rooster, dude!
- If you showed up at the gas pump and the price had gone up 50 cents just to penalize you for driving, what would it do to your budget?
- When your loved one dies, you always look for answers but sometimes you need to be thankful that they didn’t rip you a new one.
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Information Salad #79: It’s Better This Way
By Slobokan | March 8, 2008
A lot happened this week. Some for the better, some not so much. Enjoy the show!
- We went from the flagship podcast on ISPN Media to the only podcast on ISPN Media. We’re moving on.
- Is John McCain unstable or not?
- Is Hillary Clinton a monster?
- Will the media finally toughen up when covering Barack Obama?
- Apparently, if you’re voting for Hillary Clinton you are a feminist or a racist.
- How should Barack Obama be portrayed?
- Should white men portray black men in movies? Where was the outrage when the Wayan’s Brothers did the same thing, in reverse?
- Does the Windows price cut mean more people will buy it?
- Are garbage disposals a big source of grease?
- The #99 was penalized, was their violation intentional?
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Information Salad #78: Kickin’ It To The Curb
By Slobokan | March 1, 2008
Happy Sadie Hawkins Day!
- We talk about our wives and how we asked them to marry us.
- The release of Stuffr has been postponed because of some very cool feature additions.
- The media is working hard to question John McCain’s citizenship.
- Barack Obama forgets Al Qaeda is already in Iraq.
- Obama Campaign: Don’t take Barack Obama’s remarks at face value.
- It turns out there was voter fraud in 2004.
- People might be voting for Obama because The Clinton is no longer the hip one in the race.
- Why does Michelle Obama keep talking about fear?
- Palestinians have the lowest infant mortality rate of all their Arab neighbors.
- There’s a movement to Drop Drudge. If they are questioning his ethics, why do they continue to link to some of the media outlets that have done far worse?
- Quarterlife was cancelled.
- Slobokan gives Photoboy mad props for his live blog of the Democratic debate.
- Are you looking to shorten your life? Michelle Oshen has 60 ways to help you.
- Stupid Person(s) Of The Week: The executives at Cathay Pacific.
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Information Salad #77: We Have Questions
By Slobokan | February 23, 2008
UPDATE: Sorry for the audio issues in the first posting. They’re all fixed now.
We call out a lot of people and ask a lot of questions. Too bad the questions we asked were rhetorical. Okay, so they weren’t, but we did ask a lot of questions.
- Vinny got an xbox, a Wii and a new HDTV since we last chatted.
- Slobokan has been working on the mext version of Stuffr, and he got a bean bag for his iPod Nano.
- What would you do to restrain a child that was acting out at school?
- Should we trust recommendations on children’s items.
- Michelle Obama has not been proud in her entire adult life.
- The New York Times ignores John McCain, then they endorse John McCain, then they attack John McCain with the information they ignored in the first place.
- Should the U.S. Secret Service stop checking bags at rallies for presidential candidates?
- Does Barack Obama face more danger than other presidential candidates?
- Mike Huckabee’s goal is a brokereed convention.
- Wow. Rosanne Barr gets it. Do you?
- John Hawkins, from Right Wing News, has posted the results of the Rightosphere Temperature Check for February. Did we really need a poll for the obvious?
- Is it time to end the embargo of Cuba? We do business with all the other despots and dictators and brutal governments, why not Cuba?
- Kosovo declares their independence. Serbians respond like… Serbians.
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Information Salad #76: The We Heart Politics Episode
By Slobokan | February 9, 2008
This week, we have a lively discussion about politics and we definitely don’t do sleepies.
- Vinny is happy it’s Friday.
- Slobokan is working on the new version of Stuffr.
- Romney was rude and tactless not to inform Laura Ingraham he was quitting before she announced.
- Super Tuesday was anything but…wasn’t it?
- What happens when a news anchor makes an unappropriate comment towards a candidates’ daughter?
- We touch on a LOT of issues in this episode, including torture, health care, the war, and the debates.
- Vinny plans to get one of these.
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Information Salad #75: The Kerplunk! Episode
By Slobokan | February 2, 2008
This week, we talk about Microsoft’s attempt to acquire Yahoo!, the political landscape, and banning fat people from eating at restaurants.
- Microsoft is buying Yahoo!. Why? Is it worth it?
- Confused on which mouse to buy?
- We discuss two losers who dropped out of the presidential race this week.
- Oprahis campaigning for Obama again.
- John McCain is not a true conservative, no matter what he says.
- Ann Coulter will campaign for Hillary if she and McCain get their respective nominations.
- Spy on your neighbors and see how much they’re donating this campaign.
- Stupid People Of The Week: The state of Mississippi wants to ban obese people from eating out.
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Information Salad #74: The Internal Mic Edition
By Slobokan | January 26, 2008
This week, we talk about politics, Robert Scoble being a hypocrite, segregation vs. civility, and paying students to learn.
- Slobokan put together a comparison chart on the remaining 2008 presidential candidates.
- The New York Times has come out with their endorsements, which are no suprise.
- Have you seen Mahalo’s Election 2008 page?
- Is Robert Scoble the biggest hypocritical or what?
- How flawed is a society that it resorts to forced segregation rather than civility?
- Scumbags plan to protest Heath Ledger’s funeral.
- John Gibson commented about Heath Ledger, does anyone care?
- Fuji tells you what you can take pictures of and what you can’t.
- Should students get paid as an incentive to learn?
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Information Salad #73: Vinny’s Back In The Saddle
By Slobokan | January 19, 2008
This week, Vinny’s back and completely recovered from his near death experience.
- My favorite part of MacWorld was the announcement of Movie Rentals
- Thank God Apple support is better than Microsoft support.
- Will Microsoft listen to their customers?
- Robert Scoble commits the biggest ethical faux pas with the Facebook incident, and then has the nerve to talk about ethics.
- By far the best coverage of CES was John C. Dvorak visiting the Pinball museum.
- We get into politics a bit. Vinny talks about a guy who dogs on Romney and his “many wives”. Slobokan has had it with the Thompson campaign. We talk about the media’s golden boy, Barack Obama. Who has to do well in South Carolina? Is Rudy done if he loses Florida?
- Be careful where you have sex.
- Do people really do this? Do people throw their trees out the window after Christmas?
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Information Salad #72: We’re Live Baby!
By Slobokan | January 12, 2008
This week, Information Salad goes live! How awesome is that? A special thanks to Dave Chadwick for sitting in tonight.
- We’re live tonight, but Vinny had a headache, so Dave Chadwick, aka Sugar Ray Dodge, filled in for him.
- Twins fall in love, and get married. Too bad they are siblings.
- We talk politics. Fred in South Carolina, and Kucinich in New Hampshire. What is Kucinich up to with that recount anyway?
- Have you seen the article on Ron Paul’s newletters?
- Davey read from a Ron Paul supporter’s book. (Sorry, no link for the Ron Paul supporters.)
- We talk about Mitt Romney and his father George.
- The world’s cheapest car is pissing people off.
- It snowed in Baghdad!
- What happens when a boy wants to be a cheerleader?
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