#52: Sixteen Tons

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about Apple’s lock-in empire, autonomous vehicles, and improvisational theater as a way of life.

• Southwest adds non-stop flights from Canton-Akron to DCA
• Soylent Youngstown: This Ohio cricket farm is first in US to raise ‘chirps’ for human consumption
• Scratch (the creative learning environment from #MIT) version 2.0 now open source!
• Swift: Apple owns the language, the tools, the means of distribution, and demands 30% of your revenue
  • Sixteen Tons



• Banality of Evil: Apple’s not quite sure why you’re locked in


• Winners of FBI Corporate Hackathon Competition announced


• Russians capture cigarette-smuggling drone


• Google’s Next Phase in Driverless Cars: No Steering Wheel or Brake Pedals
  • Tim Lee says this will normalize car sharing



• OpenWorm Kickstarter


• Dave and others from Red Hat at the AFCEA DC Emerging Technologies Summit 2014 on Friday, June 13


• OpenShift Enterprise 2.1 now available!
  • Free OpenShift O’Reilly book by Steven Citron-Pousty and Katie Miller



• RHEL6 STIG has been freshly updated


• Dan Risacher uncovers Gunnarbane: “SDN is as big as the original packetization in the network,” declared Stephen B. Alexander, senior vice president and CTO for Ciena. “We can light fiber as much as physics will allow. We can create terabit flows; but you’ll want to slice these terabits into different missions. SDN will virtualize networks—user-bespoke networks,” he stated


• 3 Ways Embracing the Principles of Improv Can Change Your Life

Cutting Room Floor

• Advice to a Young Programmer from Tom Lee
• My Friend Totoro, Bus Stop Scene via Oculus Rift
• Pornburger.me is exactly what it sounds like
• Unlock Android with a manicure
• New Hobby: DOD Infographics
• Today in cognitive surplus: Auto Buds h/t Rebecca Williams
• Collective Noun Collective
• Handmade, Artisanal Plungers
• The Hipster Logo Design Guide
• Word of the Day: Cumulocentrism
• PSA: Reset your Bitly password!
• PSA: Change your Ebay password!
  • And turn on 2 factor authentication for free while you’re at it please
  • PayPal too

We Give Thanks

• Dan Risacher for giving Gunnar a seizure
• Rebecca Williams for giving us something to talk about