Despite grave illness, we push on through to give you the best episode yet, with frank discussions of the latest crappy movies we haven’t seen, the finer points of badminton, and we uncover the deep, dark truth about… Canadians.
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Check out Maggie Drennon. She’s awesome!
Have you ever seen this Tim Burton film?
There’s probaby another link, but you’ll have to remind me what it is, after you listen.
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Unfortunately we missed seeing Maggie at the Mill, though I have seen her there before when she was still part of SixMileBridge and that was great.
William: Since Cory Doctorow releases all his books under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial license, you can download a free copy of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom and it read to get a better understanding of the Whuffie economy. Or you could attend and volunteer at the Penguicon Sci-Fi convention as that con adopted the Whuffie as a way of tracking volunteer hours (and rewarding volunteers).
Canadians are Human+, which is why they’re nicer than we are and why they have national health and we have insurance companies like UHWDC.
The only link that I noticed missing was one to Pandora.
Budget cuts and mind control waves – I’ve had to use THREE layers of tinfoil lately for my hat. I think it’s a conspiracy by companies that make tinfoil.
On the subject of Wuffle – I seem to recall the (or a) Star Trek RPG used a similar concept as a way to explain how things get bought/sold/done in the idealized Federation society where they’ve supposedly abolished poverty and social-class, money, etc. Basically, it’s not just about your reputation, but the reputation of the people you associate with that makes you “rich” or not. So if you’ve ever seen or played that RPG you may want to refer back to it.
To put it in twitter terms, it can be the number of people following you, or the “quality” of the people following you (as in, how famous they are themselves), or some combination therein AND how much they interact with you on the feed.