::overclocked::podcast
Life Beyond the Manufacturer's Specifications

::overclocked is produced twice a week by Bluejack. For more information about this podcast, vusut Bluejack's website, and further discussion can be found in Bluejack's Blog.
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#032 -- Science -- Why is there any debate about cloning? Clone me, Dr. Memory! The usual rambling discussion of the science, politics, religion, and science fiction of cloning. Background music by PJ Harvey (The Wind) Amon Tobin (Deo) Tom Waits (Dirt in the Ground) Ani DiFranco (Icarus) Infected Mushroom (Unbalanced -- Baby Killer Remix).
Direct download: oc_032.mp3
Category: Science -- posted at: 12:51 AM
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#031 -- Life -- The death march plods on; podcasting is missed; the scientific method applied to spirituality.
Direct download: oc_031.mp3
Category: Life -- posted at: 1:00 AM
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#030 -- Tech -- Before wandering off into a lala land of incoherent software engineering minutiae that will be of very little interest to anyone who doesn't already know the difference between C and C++, Bluejack discusses Microsoft's payoff to Real Networks in a bid to put together an Anti-Apple coalition to take down iTunes. Background music by DJ Shadow (Organ Donor), Timbuk3 (Disn***land), Fatboy Slim (Ya Mama), Sunday All Over the World (Kneeling at the Shrine), Michael Nyman (Drowning by Numbers).
Direct download: oc_030.mp3
Category: Tech -- posted at: 10:35 PM
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#029 -- SciFi -- Thinking about the future of man-machine interface. The qwerty keyboard, in case you don't know, is designed to slow you down. But the answer is not a dvorak keyboard... the answer is neural interface. Includes a peculiar sidetrack into the spritual implications of -- and mandate for -- the integration flesh with technology. Background music includes: the ZZ-Top v. Pink mashup, Ani Difranco (Modulation), The Sugarcubes (Blue-Eyed Pop), Beck (Mixed Bizness), Moby (Natural Blues).
Direct download: oc_029.mp3
Category: SciFi -- posted at: 11:30 PM
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