The Tech Offensive

This week on the Tech Offensive your host Louie Herr and guests Bennett Leader, Ross Faulkenberg, Jott Robertson and Aaron Colter and these stories:

• Jimmy Wales is a bad bad boy,
• So is some douchebag of a marine (no disrespect to the corps, sir),
• Apple does some shit,
• Pakistan breaks youtube,
• we’re not abuzz about Buzz,
• Yacrosoft keeps on going,
• Google’s dropping,
• Netscape is dead (really dead), but Firefox is alive, and
• Monster Cables aren’t worth a shit.

And also, our picks, which I’m too lazy to go find right now.Thanks to everyone for participating.Get the Tech Offensive Netcast #15: “So limited it’s not even worth an upgrade.” right here, right click save as!Subscribe in iTunes.

Hey guys, it’s the Tech Offensive Netcast 14!

This week on the Tech Offensive: your host Louie Herr and guests Scott Tridle, Bennett Leader, Aaron Colter and Jott Robertson discuss:

• HDDVD’s (actual) death,
• the continuing Yahoocrosoft chronicles,
• Microsoft’s new open initiative,
• the RIAA’s new training video,
• Apple stuff,
• search demographics,
• nano-technology and
• space rocket-missiles. (Giev missl).

Also, we have picks:

Bennett – http://www.bornrich.org/

Aaron – Naked Lindsay Lohan

Scott – The U.S. Navy

Jott – Logic (pansy pick)

Louie – Lessig08.org and Change-Congress.org

Thanks again to all guests for joining me this week.

Get The Tech Offensive Netcast #14: It’s a half strippers and cocaine/half cash offer. RIGHT HERE RIGHT CLICK SAVE AS!!!

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Hey guys, it’s the Tech Offensive Netcast 13!

This week on the Tech Offensive: Your host Louie Herr and guests Bennett Leader, Jott Robertson, Ross Faulkenberg and Aaron Colter discuss:

• Failing XBox360s,
• Failing bids for Yahoo,
• Fixes for Leopard (and other Apple bullshit),
• Clickthroughs and Online Video,
• Hot or Not,
• and the apparent end of the format wars.

Picks this week:

Aaron: SasquatchFestival.com
Jott: Monolingual
Bennett: The Apple Time Capsule, but it hasn’t arrived
Ross: Deerhoof – Friend Opportunity
Louie: Google Analytics

Get The Tech Offensive Netcast Episode 13: Yeah, back that data up, bitch. RIGHT HERE RIGHT CLICK SAVE AS!

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To the delight of all present, Lonesome Radio Heart played a terrific set here at The Banana Stand last night.

I’d like to thank Paul, Elisa, Stephanie, Jeremy, Ryan and Gordy from Lonesome Radio Heart for playing such a good show. I’d also like to thank all their fans for coming out to the show and, more importantly, for keeping our house prim and proper (seriously, our kitchen was spotless).

Banana Standers deserve thanking as well, thanks Aaron, Jott, Ross and Shawn for hanging and helping with the show.

Check back on Tech Offensive and Banana Stand Media soon for live tracks from Lonesome Radio Heart. Thanks again to everyone for coming out.

Louie Herr and I have been kicking around the idea of a media netcast for a couple months. Unfortunately, with so many other projects (Tech Offensive, Banana Stand Media, Fearing Americans, real jobs, etc) it’s been difficult to find a name for the netcast or even decided on interesting content.

Here’s the first shot at keeping all you beautiful people in-the-know with what’s hip in entertainment. Lucky for you we stray from rag-gossip like Entertainment Tonight, TMZ, or The Insider – this way you’ll be less likely to feel that horrible emptiness inside that reminds you of how much of a worthless consumer whore you’ve become.

In this episode:

-Death Cab For Cutie

-Vampire Weekend

-The Roots

-TV On The Radio

-The Futureheads

-Common

-Danny Glover

-My Morning Jacket

-Y The Last Man

-James Bond: Quantum Of Solace

-Mr. Snipes

-Nick Cage

-Nick Cave

-Matt Damon ballin’ Sarah Silverman

Thanks to all our listeners and Bennett Leader for joining us on this new project.

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As previously reported on the Tech Offensive, LONESOMERADIOHEART is playing here at the Banana Stand on February 9th at 800 pm.

Check back soon for Live tracks, interviews, and more images of the band.

Again, thanks to Paul, Jeremy, Elisa, Stephanie, Ryan and Gordy for coming out. All of us are looking forward to Saturday!

EDIT: Now with more audio, CLICK HERE GET A PREVIEW TRACK OF LONESOME RADIO HEART AT THE BANANA STAND!!!!

Hay guys, it’s the Tech Offensive Netcast 12!

This week on The Tech Offensive: Your host Louie Herr, Ross Faulkenberg, Jott Robertson and Bennett Leader discuss:

• the 700-MHz Spectrum auction,
• undersea cables,
• iPhones and iPod Touches,
• Physics cards,
• Podcasts (on a podcast…it’s meta!)
• Oxycontin,
• Barack Obama,
• YahSoft(!),
• and gadget spending.

Picks:

• Jott: SeedMagazine.com
• Bennett: iFixIt.com
• Ross: Mutato Muzika
• Louie: Quicksilver

Thanks again to all the guests this week.

We’d like to remind everyone about our upcoming Live from the Banana Stand featuring LONESOMERADIOHEART. It will be February 9 here at the Banana Stand, RSVP on our Myspace.

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Hey, everyone, it’s How Do I Shot Web!

How Do I Shot Web is a new Tech Offensive network show where we will teach you, the listener, how we do all the amazing things we do.

This week we discuss netcasting.

If you have a tech problem or question that you would like answered, send it to techoffensive (at) gmail.com, maybe we’ll do an ep about it.

On this episode:

• Leo Laporte, the man, the myth, the savior, the personal inspiration,
• The Alesis Multimix 8, the past,
• The Mackie Onyx 1620, the present, the future,
• GearMediaTech, a past and future reference for your recording gear needs,
• and also Skype, Audio Hijack, and other bullshit.

Also, in this episode, we cite this Tech Offensive post that cites this Leo Laporte Leoville.TV post. So I cite them both now.

Thanks so much to Jott Robertson and Ross Faulkenberg for joining the cast tonight.

So now, without further ado, here it is, HOW DO I SHOT WEB EPISODE ONE HOW WE SHOT NETCAST OMG CAPS <—–right click save as.

Hay guys, it’s The Tech Offensive Netcast 11.

This week on the Tech Offensive, Jott, Aaron, Shawn, Jacques, Austin, Bennett and Louie talk about:

• Earnings Earnings Earnings – Google, Microsoft, Apple, Nokia woohoo
• Bloggers vs. Scientologists – We are going to get sued
• MPAA – what a bunch of assholes

PICKS BABY PICKS

louie: cssedit
aaron: not on the guest list
jacques: www.webleeped.it
austin: fully flared by lakai
bennett: isquint
shawn: google

We also want to plug our upcoming Live from the Banana Stand featuring LONESOMERADIOHEART. It will be February 9 here at the Banana Stand, RSVP on our Myspace.

I was joined this week by Aaron Colter, Jott Robertson, Shawn Pike, Jacques Franz, Austin Dickson and Bennett Leader, special thanks to Shawn for joining us for the first time.

Download The Tech Offensive Netcast #11: Thank you, very much, for having me on, but, uh, I probably won’t do it again.

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“Oh, right. One more thing. This is the last Uncov. Ever. I have been getting tired of it, and this has been manifesting itself in my writing. After seeing the spectacle at the Crunchies, I think it’s finally time to quit.”

Makes me sad. I always thought the writer [Ted Dziuba] was probably a goon; always had great (probably Awful-forums derived) image macros.

Maybe if TechOffensive ever gets some readers he could find a home here.

Yeah, I didn’t think so either.

Go check out the archives at Uncov.com while they’re still up. Hopefully the Dziuba will still write somewhere.

Hey, look, I can do it too: