#58: You Will Know Dave’s Vacation By the Trail of Destruction

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about Barthelona, Gaudi, Toledo, Detroit, the Stasi, and why cloud providers can’t have nice things.

• Barcelona and Detroit trip report
  • Barcelona
  • Uber is there but illegal
  • Nova Icària is the Egts family’s preferred Barcelona beach
  • When in town, be sure to check out Montserrat, Las Ramblas, and Sagrada Família
  • Detroit Maker Faire
  • Dave highly recommends: The Henry, Autograph Collection
  • The Stasi almost caught up to Dave
    • Truck crashes into East Toledo Tony Packo’s
    • Toledo faces water crisis after dangerous toxin found in supply
    • Don’t Drink the Water … In Lake Erie
    • “Don’t order the Toledo Outback Bloomin’ Algae. It’s terrible.”

  
  
  
  


• Gunnar can’t stop watching the new Mad Max trailer


• Stasi doppelgänger follow up: Chinese 3D Printer Allows You to 3D Print a Human Sized 1:1 Wax Replica of Yourself
  • Almost related: Bannerman = Uber for bodyguards



• Chromecast to use ULTRASOUND


• Striesand is an onramp-to-darkweb-in-a-box. Think of the Streisand Effect.


• HT Robin Price: Google’s Project Zero


• Now you can experience the ultimate joy like never before using Pinwheel!


• Obama administration says the world’s servers are ours


• Is AWS stumbling?


• Lowering Cost of Government IT on August 21


• Lauren’s new Raspberry Pi project’s maiden voyage: Impossible Deceptions, Charles Peachock & Jason Alan Magic on August 23


• Dear EPA: Please buy CloudForms. Love, Dave and Gunnar.
  • Start here with James Labocki and Thomas Cameron



• InfoWorld ♥s OpenShift
  • OpenShift Enterprise on Autonomic Resources’ PaaS solution, ARCWRX, is “in evaluation” for FedRAMP authorization
  • Want to learn more? Dan Walsh on Docker Security

Cutting Room Floor

• Weird Al’s Foil — stay for the plot twist
• David A. Wheeler bait! Mathematically-proved OS kernel is open source (on Github)
• Watch James Baldwin debate William F. Buckley at Cambridge in 1966
• Gunnar is ready for this 34″ monitor
• Bertolt Brecht sings “Mack the Knife” and creeps Gunnar out
• Declassified: The Government’s Secret Plan For a Military Moon Base
• That Time The CIA Kidnapped A Soviet Spacecraft
• MakerBot 3D printers now available in a dozen Home Depot stores
• Tips For Crafting A Strong Password That Really Pops

We Give Thanks

• HT Robin Price for the Project Zero heads up