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  1. Radio Free Burrito Episode 33

    Today, I talked about some games I’ve been playing, rambled a little (a lot) and talked a bit about comic books and beer. It’s a stream of consciousness RFB, so you probably want to skip this one.

    If you’re still thinking about listening to this, be warned: something PROFOUNDLY OFFENSIVE EVEN TO ME comes up in the demo of Cards Against Humanity.

    Show Notes:

    The logo was designed by WWdN:iX reader Marc, who asked that I not link to his "in progress" website. Thanks, Marc! Radio Free Burrito doesn’t work as hard to earn its [EXPLICIT] tag as Memories of the Futurecast did, but it still manages to upset mom and get Twitter breakup messages from sensitive people. You have been warned. This week’s theme music is Gidget Goes to Hell by Suburban Lawns. Listen to Janitor here. In fact, watch it, too. This is what music videos started out as, kids. Learn more about this fantastic New Wave band here. Here’s a random link from Wikipedia. Here’s Cards Against Humanity. 7 Wonders is really a lot of fun. Don’t bother getting the expansions. This seems legit. The Resistance works with 5, but it really comes alive with 7 or more. Reddit agrees with my conclusion about why there’s been a troll explosion recently. I feel like this is as necessary as explaining how to buckle an airplane seatbelt, but here’s my show Tabletop on Geek and Sundry. The soundtrack from VVVVVV is called PPPPPP (because why wouldn’t it?) and can be purchased from Souleye, who composed it. Did you know you can get a little smooshy plush version of me? Now you do. Massive thanks to Kathleen for getting me a new bell just like this one. Yeah, it’s a classy bell, right there. It doesn’t try to be all fancy; it just does what a good bell should do. I know that I’m forgetting something. I’m also forgetting something else. Does anyone read these notes? I wrote about the Parsely System on my blog. Paul and Storm made a video for Write Like The Wind. This episode is about 49.4MB. Goddamn, thats a lot of Ms and Bs. This episode is about 51 minutes long. That’s probably where all the Ms and Bs came from. I am aware that the tags are screwed up and the feed doesn’t validate, so unless you’re grabbing RFB from iTunes or getting it directly here, it’s a giant hassle to get it. I am aware of this problem, but it’s a gigantic pain in the ass for me to correct it, given the tools I have available to me. I’m sorry for the inconvenience, and I’m very annoyed by it, but I can make a podcast, or I can be a bug-squashing code monkey. I can’t do both, and I quite frankly prefer making the podcast. Listener Dave K. built a workaround that you can learn all about here. Thanks, Dave! Again, no embedded artwork. This distresses me, but it’s Apple’s fault, not mine, and it’s too much of a pain in the ass to get it done. Hopefully, they’ll fix the bug REALLY SOON. Please note that I’ve been wishing for Apple to fix this bug for over twofour years. Yay. This is the end of the notes.

    Huffduffed from http://radiofreeburrito.com/2012/06/radio-free-burrito-episode-thirty-three.html

    —Huffduffed by 40thieves 11 months ago

  2. Data Stories Episode 5: How To Learn Data Visualization (with Any Kirk)

    Hi Folks! We love Andy so much that we decided to keep him with us for another episode (well, actually we hope somebody will eventually pay the ransom). This time we talk about “learning visualization”, which is the perfect topic for him given his experience with his training visualization courses.

    We received many requests of people who wanted to know how to learn visualization in the past. So, here we are with a more than one hour long podcast with the three of us talking about it. We just hope you’ll find the time to listen to the entire episode. If not, the breakdown below can help you chunking it into a few sessions. Have fun!

    Breakdown of the episode

    Introductory thoughts 00:00:00 Intro, Andy Kirk (http://visualisingdata.com) is again our guest 00:01:15 Topic: How to learn visualization 00:01:56 Multidisciplinarity 00:06:31 Reports from teaching practice 00:09:21 Theory and practice – rules vs, free exploration 00:12:24 Do you need to start with a question?

    Basic skills 00:15:43 What is the basic skill set to learn? 00:16:15 Visual variables 00:18:53 Statistics and data analytics 00:19:32 Gestalt laws 00:20:32 The journalistic sense – what is an interesting angle? 00:22:19 Position is everything 00:23:38 Color is difficult

    Process and tools 00:25:05 Tools 00:26:18 Data types and repertoire 00:27:15 Metaphors 00:28:52 Interaction 00:31:27 The role of design 00:32:57 How to get started?

    Learning options and books 00:39:46 Everybody should have a datavis course! 00:41:32 How to learn it yourself? Books, lectures, … 00:42:39 Stephen Few: Show me the numbers 00:43:20 Andy’s first book, and mo is the cinderella of datavis 00:43:52 Readings in Information Visualization: Using vision to think 00:45:09 Edward Tufte: Visual display of quantitative information 00:46:05 Ware: Information Visualization – Perception for Design 00:47:42 Misc. 00:49:23 Our scoop! 00:52:03 Google for “information visualization lecture pdf”

    The craft of visualization design 00:53:43 Now that you know everything – how to do it in practice? 00:55:01 DIY vs. template-based tools 00:57:01 Do you need to learn how to program? Yes, yep, yes, yeah. Me too. 00:58:36 Tools 01:00:17 Finding data 01:02:28 Put it out there 01:04:08 The pathetic misery that is creating data visualizations

    Conclusion 01:05:52 Trying to wrap it up 01:07:13 see conference – and see+ 01:08:44 Trying to wrap it up – again!

    Huffduffed from http://datastori.es/episode-5-how-to-learn-data-visualization-with-andy-kirk/

    —Huffduffed by 40thieves one year ago

  3. Cory Doctorow - What’s Inside The Box?

    Here’s a podcast of my last Locus column, What’s Inside the Box?:

    The answer to this that most of the experts I speak to come up with is this:

    The owner (or user) of a device should be able to know (or control) which software is running on her devices.

    This is really four answers, and I’ll go over them in turn, using three different scenarios: a computer in an Internet cafe, a car, and a cochlear implant. That is, a computer you sit in front of, a computer you put your body into, and a computer you put in your body.

    —Huffduffed by 40thieves one year ago

  4. The Ask Lifehacker Podcast: Our First Episode

    The Lifehacker Show is back with a new format. Come check out our first episode where we answer a variety of questions from you, the readers. We’ll discuss how to access your home network from afar, remap keys in OS X and Windows, hook up multiple screens to a laptop, find an apartment equidistant from three offices, learn how to get started with open-source development projects, and much more.

    Huffduffed from: http://lifehacker.com/5887928/the-ask-lifehacker-podcast-watch-or-listen-to-our-first-episode

    —Huffduffed by 40thieves one year ago

  5. Functional Nerd Podcast 91: Natania Barron and Tom Merritt

    In episode 91 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome Natania Barron and Tom Merritt.

    About Natania:

    Natania Barron is a writer with a penchant for the speculative; she is also an unrepentant geek. Her work has appeared in Weird Tales, EscapePod, The Gatehouse Gazette, Thaumatrope, Bull Spec, Crossed Genres, Steampunk Tales, Faerie Magazine, and in anthologies. She has released the most recent draft of her steampunk novel, The Aldersgate, as a podcast at The Aldersgate Cycle (you can also subscribe to the whole story in iTunes here). She is also the founder of The Outer Alliance, a group dedicated to queer advocacy in speculative fiction. Recently, she joined the Bull Spec crew as a fiction editor.

    About Tom:

    Tom anchors the daily tech news show Tech news Today on the TWiT network as well as hosting special live news coverage and other events. Tom also co-hosts several independent podcasts. Sword and Laser is a science fiction and fantasy podcast and book club with Veronica Belmont. FourCast is a talk show with Scott Johnson that invites guests to predict the future. All his shows are listed on the subscription page. You’ll also find Tom as a guest or interviewed as an expert on many TV, radio and Internet shows like ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS Radio, NPR, This Week in Tech, The Phileas Club and more.

    Huffduffed from http://functionalnerds.com/2012/02/episode-091-natania-barron-and-tom-merritt/

    —Huffduffed by 40thieves one year ago

  6. ThinkUp podcast 11

    Thinkup 1.0 is out!

    Anil Dash, Gina Trapani and Andy Baio join us to talk about this great moment in Thinkup history

    —Huffduffed by 40thieves one year ago

  7. All About Android Episode 5: A Podcast about Podcast Apps - How Meta

    Samsung versus Apple, Tracking your every move, Podcast apps turned inside out, and more.

    Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/aaa.

    We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes at wiki.twit.tv.

    Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show.

    Huffduffed from http://twit.tv/show/all-about-android/5

    —Huffduffed by 40thieves one year ago

  8. Context essays by Cory Doctorow on the Command Line podcast

    Thomas Gideon at the Command Line podcast has done me the honor of selecting a couple of essays from my new collection Context for his latest podcast.

    Huffduffed from http://craphound.com/?p=3738

    —Huffduffed by 40thieves one year ago

  9. Careers Talk podcast: How I broke into web development

    Recent graduate Manit Sahib joins us on the phone to explain what he does as a rational tools specialist and, in the studio, we have band tracker website Songkick’s junior developer James Coglan (@jcoglan). Both share their top tips for careers in web and software development.

    Plus, Josh Picket, a 16-year-old developer being tipped by Rewired State for a very successful career, talks to us about balancing hacking with homework. He blogs at Fifteen and a Half and tweets as @LordJawsh.

    Huffduffed from http://careers.guardian.co.uk/audio/careers-talk-podcast-how-i-broke-into-web-development

    —Huffduffed by 40thieves one year ago

  10. Tech Weekly podcast: Tech City Talk - Skills and Education

    The first of our series of Tech City Talks is on the subject of skills and education. If the government’s Tech City initiative is to be successfully implemented, who will work there? Where is the next wave of tech talent coming from that will build the UK’s Google or Facebook?

    Aleks Krotoski is the chair of this discussion, and on the the panel is David Willetts MP (Minister of State for Universities and Science), Prof Jeff Magee (Principal of the Faculty of Engineering at Imperial College), Dan Crow (CTO, Songkick) and Emma Mulqueeny (Rewired State and Young Rewired State).

    Huffduffed from http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/audio/2011/oct/12/tech-weekly-tech-city-skills-education-audio

    —Huffduffed by 40thieves one year ago

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