#31: Pizza Hat

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: turning people into products, patches into pounds and pence, protecting poultry, priorities, primary patchers on projects, and PDFs into poison.

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• Gunnar: There’s an app for that
• HT @CampCatastrophe: Deep Brain Stimulation implant “about the size of a stopwatch”
  • Almost related: LG jumps on the vestibulo-ocular reflex chicken powered steady cam bandwagon
  • Not related: Chicken safety vest



• HT Keenan: First Amendment expert Eugene Volokh on Sufficient Speech vs. Facebook


• HT Matt Micene: If you use Google services, you could become an ad next month
  • Step 1: Opt out here
  • Step 2: Enable Adblock Plus or Adblock Edge
  • Moral of the story: don’t get Scroogled. At least Microsoft isn’t doing creepy tracking. Oh wait, never mind.



• LinkedIn makes hacker’s dreams come true


• State Decoded has the SCAP Security Guide baked in!


• HT Mil-OSS: Google Offers New Bounty Program For Securing Open-Source Software


• News Flash: Oracle Still Hates Open Source Software
  • Mil-OSS weighs in



• Nominations Now Open for 2014 Red Hat Innovation Awards


• Red Hat Summit Call for Proposals closes November 5


• Red Hat Government Symposium is on for November 6!


• JBoss Day in Austin on November 12


• C5ISR Summit in Charleston on November 13


• Alamo ACE (AFCEA) in San Antonio on November 19


• Cantas = open source Trello


• Matt Micene and Dave celebrate National Cybersecurity Awareness Month with a blog post


• RHEL 5.9 to 5.10 risk report
  • Measure it yourself



• RIP acroread


• OpenStack Havana is out!
  • Activity dashboard



• RHEV 3.3 beta has OpenStack goodness too


• HT Yasir Syeed: OpenStack threatens Paas?


• Customers and partners we like
  • Emergent and Red Hat Announce Cloud Collaboration Around OpenShift PaaS
  • The Navy’s newest warship is powered by Linux



• The Eisenhower Matrix


• The Ten Most Expensive Vehicles To Operate

Cutting Room Floor

• Pizza Hat
• HUD for your car
• Raspberry Pi internet controlled whoopie cushion
• Build your own Arduino powered Enigma machine
• Open source HTML5 Full Screen Mario
• Run Linux on an emulated MIPS processor… in your browser w/JavaScript!
• (Securely?) Boot to Zork using UEFI
• A Klingon Christmas Carol performed in the original Klingon with English supertitles and narrative analysis from the Vulcan Institute of Cultural Anthropology
• Jim Henson’s Muppet Computer from 1963
• The scientific proof why Dave is addicted to Nacho Cheese Doritos
• 27 Actors Who Got Their Starts on Miami Vice

We Give Thanks

• @CampCatastrophe, Keenan, Matt Micene, Mil-OSS, and Yasir Syeed for encouraging us by giving us items to discuss!