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No Agenda Podcast Emancipated: Episode 514 Now Available in Ogg Vorbis and Opus File Formats
NA-514-2013-05-19-Final-23kbps-11025khz-Mono.ogg
NA-514-2013-05-19-Final-7kbps-Mono.opus (I know Firefox will play ‘em with “Open File…”)
brought to you, in part, by Wuala’s “Secure Cloud Storage” and the power of In The Morning.
If you appreciate this small amount of work on my part, please let me know. I can pull this little maneuver off with more haste in the future. Assure me we are legion. Have a real day.
More info can be found on the Opus Interactive Audio Codec and Ogg Vorbis.
Jesse Anderson is @ http://slavenot.com.
Low Bandwidth No Agenda
I had no idea that JSteve @ the Super Global Mega Corporation had been working on a “modem friendly page” of resources relating to The Best Podcast in the Universe, but he has:
Low Bandwidth No Agenda (Gitmo Nation West .us)
JSteve has put together a large archive of speex files currently spanning (though not comprehensively) Episodes 231-507 (as well as 1-5) of The No Agenda Podcast. Also on that page are some other links of interest to audio excerpts from such ephemera as the Vice City Public Radio and K-Chat radio stations.
Excellent work JSteve. I’ll soon be trans-coding the live-streaming No Agenda Show and posting speex, opus, and/or low bit-rate mp3s for the masses of zombified sheeple. I would also like to write some concise summaries of each show’s headlines and topics of discussion, with short quotes and links to the official NA Show Notes. I’m excellent at coming up with ideas but no-so-hot at implementing them. Here’s to upsetting my personal status-quo!
This venture I’m work-shopping here in public will likely be an “unofficial” No Agenda product as I think I’d prefer ripping the live stream and trans-coding on the fly than converting the finished No Agenda Podcast. It would be nothing but beneficial to have a wholly unedited re-podcast re-iteration of the No Agenda Show, right?
In the Morning Tech Tycoons: You Can Keep Your 21st Century
In light of all the hogwash coming out of Google’s recent conference, I would just like to say that the 21st Century these tech tycoons are dreaming of is diametrically opposed to the 21st Century the vast majority of humanity is dreaming of.
We the people overwhelmingly dream of the growth of freedom being the parameter by which we measure progress into the future. These fucks at Google, Facebook, etc. – in cahoots with our representatives in the United States Government’s legislative, executive, and judicial puppet houses – are living their perverted wet dream of control by surveillance in the same way that a farmer who has got to big for his britches manufactures the fallacy that he/she is controlling the land.
It’s too bad that these pigs who now occupy places of power and influence weren’t shown more love and affection as children. Where we have ‘heart’ and ‘sympathy’, they have a big black hole.
Please follow the link below to enjoy the work of a real man.
There is just one road to freedom, Congressman.
“I know that already and I have same thoughts like you freedom and respecting privacy [...]“
Read Moxie Marlinspike’s account of A Saudi Arabia Telecoms Surveillance Pitch.
via Hacker News
Why is Science Behind a Paywall?
Read more at Priceonomics Blog
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Re: “Gun’s symbolic sexuality” (Letters, May 2)
The following is reprinted from the CN&R‘s ‘Letters’ for the week of May 9, 2013…
I read with great interest the letter by someone who didn’t want to sign their name to it about how guns are “the ultimate phallic symbol” and that using them is like masturbating. I decided to test this tired theory by substituting my penis for my gun.
When my sweet old donkey collapsed and was suffering through the weekend with no available veterinarian to “put her to sleep,” I masturbated on her forehead. Didn’t work. I still had to shoot her or watch her struggle to breathe.
I was biking the logging roads in Manton and confronted by a crankster who insisted he owned Ponderosa Way and that I’d better turn around. I dropped my pants and pointed my tiny little penis at him. Didn’t scare him one bit. He knew I’d never be able to hit him from 20 feet and had no time for a reload. He had an actual gun, so I pulled up my pants and left.
The most embarrassing part of this experiment was when I was cleaning my penis and it just went off. Accidental discharge everywhere.
Your point about women who like guns having penis envy is well taken . My wife’s gun is bigger than mine.
But sometimes a gun is just a gun.
Look out for my love.

