Archive for category Rant5

Rant5-014:Free or Premium

I rant about the differences between wordpress and wordpress.  Talk about how I can’t get my stuff on youtube, and how facebook may be hacked, or maybe it’s just me.

All today, on quite possibly the most dull episode of Rant5 for a long time.

Get the show at: http://www.archive.org/download/Rant5/Rant5-014_vbr.mp3

Rant5-013:The Facebook Episode

On today’s episode of Rant5, I complain about Facebook, and how it’s possibly all spammed up.  I talk about privacy concerns, and rap it all up by talking about Google.
Download the show here: http://www.archive.org/download/Rant5/Rant5-013_vbr.mp3

012:Not a Studio to be Found

Today on Rant 5, we complain about going off the air, and manage to come back on again. We go over ubuntu, and how they’re changing everything, and I complain about the lack of a studio where I record.

Download the show here:

http://www.archive.org/download/Rant5/Rant5-012a_vbr.mp3

Update:  I can’t believe I forgot the links for today’s show:

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/new-ubuntu-10-04lucid-humancity-metacity-proposed-art-work.html

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/shuttleworth-stepping-down-as-canonical-head-silber-new-ceo-in-2010.html

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/17/twitter-reportedly-hacked-by-iranian-cyber-army/

If you were wondering…

Sorry we (and by we, I mean I), haven’t gotten any episodes up lately, archive.org, our hosting service, hasn’t allowed for any uploads as of late.  The problem is currently being addressed.

~Leif

011:Nothing to Rant

Gasp, in today’s episode, I come to the horrid realization, that I have nothing to rant about.  Fortunently, I am able to pull stuff out of nowhere.

Download it here:

http://www.archive.org/download/Rant5/Rant5-011_vbr.mp3

010:Public Transportation Sucks

That’s right, UTOSC is upon us, a rather exciting event, I hope, that is assuming that I manage to get there in the first place, as the public transportation is a horrible system.  I also review overdrive audiobooks, and how they fail.

Download the show here:

http://www.archive.org/download/Rant5/Rant5-010_vbr.mp3

Links:

http://www.overdrive.com/

http://2009.utosc.com/pages/venue/

009:Religion is Real

That’s right, I decide to put my foot in my mouth, and take on the topic of religion.  Or rather, the scientific reasoning why someone may believe in a religion.  A more sciency episode if I do say so myself.

Download the show here:

http://www.archive.org/download/Rant5/Rant5-009_vbr.mp3

Links:

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/10/finding-the-fear-and-love-of-god-inside-the-brain.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

008:Are Comments Valid?

I talk about David Pogue’s twitter update complaining about comments on blogs, and worse still, that comments on any blog are completely useless, or are they?

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http://www.archive.org/download/Rant5/Rant5-008_vbr.mp3

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007:Books or Vooks

In this, our longest and most overtime episode, I complain about the future, or supposed future of books, or should I say vooks?  I also ask for money, and say thanks, but still doubt anyone will do anything about it.  Thank you for continueing to listen though.

Download the episode here:

http://www.archive.org/download/Rant5/Rant5-007_vbr.mp3

Links:

http://www.melodika.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10344&Itemid=50 (And a NYT article which I obviously can’t link to, sorry).

006:Stargate on Flash

This week we broadcast to you live (pre-recorded anyway), on location. I complain about the quality of flash on linux, and wish the people at Adobe would fix it. Then I move on to a rant about Stargate Universe, and how SyFy continue to kill Stargate.

Download the show here:
http://www.archive.org/download/Rant5/Rant5-006_vbr.mp3

Links:
http://www.hulu.com/stargate-universe