#29: Travel Pudding

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about Pudding ‘n Airplanes, Penguins ‘n Space, Parkinson’s ‘n Chickens, Printing ‘n 3D, and IMAP.

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• Lauren can’t stop watching Bohemian Gravity
• Lots of Twitter folks getting compromised. Do you have login verification enabled?
• HT Matt Micene: Court: Facebook ‘Like’ Is Protected By the First Amendment
• HT Mark Bohannon: Penguins in Space! Asteroid mining and Linux
• Travel hack of the week: Engineer earned 1.25M airline miles by buying $2,200 of pudding
  • PT Anderson is vindicated
  • Barry and Lavon are delighted



• Let’s talk about elastic demand curves


• A Spoon Full Of Sensors To Help Parkinson’s Patients Feed Themselves
  • Chicken Head Tracking
  • Vestibulo-ocular reflex
  • Mercedes-Benz cars apparently handle like a chicken
  • Chicken Powered Steadicam
  • Cleveland Clinic deep brain stimulation
  • SCI Run



• GitHub Adds 3D Modeling Features That Make It A Printer-Agnostic Choice For Object Sharing
  • Gunnar likes Vehicle Forge



• Blackberry sold for $5B
  • The decline of BlackBerry in one chart



• Outlook.com now has IMAP


• Save time by letting TripIt read your email
  • Related: LinkedIn denies harvesting user email accounts without permission



• HT Phil Shapiro: Geek Gurl Diaries
  • Use Scratch and a Makey Makey to play sounds through a Raspberry Pi using marshmallows



• Taste of Red Hat Training: Install, configure, and deploy in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform


• Gunnar presenting at postponed NIST Cloud Computing and Mobility workshop


• Dave as panelist at Symantec Government Symposium on October 2


• Gartner ITxpo on October 6-10


• Lauren at Akron Mini Maker Faire on November 2


• Red Hat Government Symposium on November 6 registration now open!


• OpenShift for Citizen Engagement


• Reproducible Builds for Fedora
  • Bonus links: Trusting Trust from Dr. David A. Wheeler’s PhD thesis and video of him defending it



• How to run vulnerability scan on Red Hat Enterprise Linux using OVAL and OpenSCAP


• A partner we like: DotCloud Pivots And Wins Big With Docker, The Cloud Service Now Part Of Red Hat OpenShift


• Watch Australians Explain How to Do an Australian Accent


• The United States has more libraries than McDonalds and Starbucks


• What Did Barney Rubble Do for a Living?

Cutting Room Floor

• Neil deGrasse Tyson is an extraordinary gift to all of us
• Ernest Hemingway’s Favorite Hamburger Recipe
• Stevie Wonder plays “Superstition” on Sesame Street in 1973
• 9 Muppets Kicked Off Sesame Street
• Unlocking an iPhone 5S with a cat’s paw
• Jaws text adventure
• Excel based Turing Machine
• 103 year old car phone
• Infovis: 92 Years of Bigfoot Sightings in the US and Canada
• NASA Will Pay $18,000 To Watch You Rest In Bed–Really
• How To Order A Drink When Your Bartender Is A Robot
• Lily Collins is McAfee’s Most Dangerous Celebrity™ for 2013

We Give Thanks

• A constitutionally protected tumbs up to Matt Micene
• Mark Bohannon for reminding us to consider open source software when doing asteroid mining
• Phil Shapiro for telling us about Geek Gurl Diaries
• The Akron Library for hosting the Akron Mini Maker Faire, writing a nice article about Lauren, and inspiring folks to be Makers!