The Tech Offensive

Hey, Everyone, it’s The Tech Offensive Episode 8, in which is discussed:

• The death of HDDVD and what it means to poor people,
• The death of the OLPC and what it means to poor people,
• Copyright law as it relates to Brazilian people,
• The FCC as it relates to (hopefully) punishing the shit out of Comcast for stopping our stealing, and
• Ross’s birthday and how it relates to Louie taking his shirt off.

As always, we have picks too!!!

• Zach – ipowerhour, but with whiskey for double-seriousness
• Jane Sniper – Ross Faulkenberg’s Birthday
• Louie – Ross Faulkenberg’s Birth (but, really, NetNewsWire)
• Jott – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (but, really, naked Louie)
• Aaron – The Daily Show hosted by that scab Jon Stewart

TechOffensive and BananaStandMedia want to thank Tranquilazer and Deer or the Doe once again for the New Years show.

Greater Midwest is playing on January Eleventh at Berbati’s Pan, go see them.

Colter has blogs at FearingAmericans and ColourLovers, and he was on the front page of Digg, so go read him.

If you like the netcast, please link us on Facebook or leave us a comment on the blog or on iTunes.

The Tech Offensive is now on iTunes, find it by searching for The Tech Offensive and subscribe and shit.

Get The Tech Offensive Episode 8: Jack the Ripper was a Netcaster here, right click save as!

Yo, Colter’s ColourLoversBlog is on the front page of Digg tonight.

I’m insanely jealous, way to go dude.

To the delight of all present (even the meth-heads who wandered up off the street), DEER OR THE DOE

and TRANQUILAZER

played a killer show here at the Banana Stand on New Year’s Eve. Check TechOffensive soon for tracks from both bands and more pictures. (We’ll have music up and interviews as soon as Louie gets his life together).

Thanks again to both Deer or the Doe and Tranquilazer for the killer show. If you have pictures of the show or party, we’d like to see them, leave a comment.

The Tech Offensive Netcast is now on iTunes. Right here. Like click this link, It takes you there (opens in iTunes).

Though the link works, I can’t actually find the netcast by searching within iTunes. If you find our netcast by searching the iTunes music store, please let me know how.

Also; comments/ratings needed. Please contribute.

Today’s tale of internet-related consumer distress is brought to you by Amazon.com and the letters I-M-I-C.

I got real hot on Amazon for gift browsing this year, purchasing all of my family’s gifts through the service. I also decided to grab a Griffin iMic as well.

This is a Griffin iMic:

Here is a terrific graphic from Leo Laporte on how the iMic is used (links to Laporte’s original Leoville.com post):

[Leo Laporte is the pod-father over at the TWIT network, you may also remember him from TechTV...he is an amazing broadcaster and web-media evangelist, and perhaps by complimenting him I can prevent a C&D for using his image.]

Anyway, everything I ordered through Amazon arrived lickety-split, everything but the iMic. I received a message today explaining the item’s absence:

TechNGnet? 5-8 business days? The fuck? Who the fuck are these assholes?

Welp, Louie, guess you should have checked the fine-fucking-print on your Amazon order:

They’re the assholes that are supplying the product you thought you purchased through Amazon, the product that didn’t ship until six-fucking-days (!) after you ordered it.

Ok, admission: I’d had a few drinks before purchasing the iMic, leading me to miss the ’ships from and sold by [these people]‘ fine print. However, should something like this be fine print? Or did I miss something in the order process?

Maybe I’m just being an asshole here, but being an asshole makes me feel better about the fact that I’ll probably not be able to use my shiny-new Mackie Onyx 1620 for netcasting for another couple weeks. There is no e-sigh large enough to convey how I feel about that.

So, anyway, Amazon, TechNGnet: I hope you both die in a fire. That is all.

Aaron Colter, creator of FearingAmericans and frequent ‘cast guest, has his first ColourLovers.com blog up here, it’s about the Bonnaroo Music Festival.  Image also links to the article.

Check it out, digg it or something if you have the means.

Ok, so far we’ve kinda failed at the netcast thing. Yes, we’ve been releasing content (of varying qualities), but a key part of this whole netcasting thing is syndication through fucking RSS. Now, finally, seven netcasts in, the Tech Offensive is proud to announce that we’re on the way to iTunes. Tell Jobs he’d better hide the silver.

So: the Tech Offensive Netcast should be available on iTunes soon, complete with a LOGO designed by frequent-cast-guest Bennett Leader. However, as of today you can also subscribe to Tech Offensive using your favorite RSS reader (or even iTunes)!

Here’s how it works in iTunes: Louie’s created a new page at TechOffensive, its URL is http://techoffensive.com/netcast.xml.

Copy the link, then go to iTunes. Click on the ‘Advanced’ drop-down menu, then select ‘Subscribe to Podcast.’ Paste the URL into the space iTunes provides and voila, you’ve subscribed to the netcast. After subscribing, instead of visiting Tech Offensive to download the netcast, it will automatically be pushed to your computer and will be available for listening through iTunes.

HOW EXCITING!!!!

The Tech Offensive is proud to announce a new media cast: LIVE FROM THE BANANA STAND.

The first episode of Live from the Banana Stand will be recorded right here in the Banana Stand on New Years Eve 2007 and will feature Portland’s-own (and friends-of-the-show) DEER OR THE DOE (and lots of drunken nonsense).

Live from the Banana Stand: Deer or the Doe…coming January 2008.

This week on The Tech Offensive:

• Beacon – I’d like to buy the world a coke, but not from facebook
• Google et al. and the 700 MHz Spectrum Auction – Merkins ARE involved but no gavel
• Gamespot and Gerstmann – Kane & Lynch just sucks
• Amazon – Half-assed Google
• Kindle revisited – a unanimous meh

Picks:

• Bennett – Driven Design
• Austin – FecalFace.com
• Ross - Turtles (what?)
• Jott – Topless Wii
• Louie – VLC

Happy Birthday Sam; and thanks to tranquilazor and The Greater Midwest for a great show last week.

Click here to download The Tech Offensive Episode 5!!!!!

On this week’s Tech Offensive Netcast:

• Kindle
• Gdrive
• ChaCha

and random other things…

Picks:

• Louie: Mike Swanson’s Blog
• Jacques Vaughn: Pixelmator

Click here for The Tech Offensive Episode 4: Adventures in Netcasting!!!