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An one hour show I do for for Radio Free Dishnuts/SkyScanner Radio
Wednesday Evenings at 10pm EST
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Show-68
02/01/12
Waylon Jennings & Family

Show-67
10/12/11
Yes's "Fly From Here"

Show-66
09/29/11
David Ossman's (Firesign Theatre) "How Time Flys" radio play comedy
+ songs from Joni Mitchell's "The Hissing Of Summer Lawns" album

Show-65
08/31/11
The Who's "Quadrophenia"

Show-64
08/17/11
Glenn's Picks 2
My cousin Glenn's second set list of some of his favorites
including a clip from the Firesign Theatre, and music from
U2, Bruce Hornsby, Joe Bonamassa, David Bromberg,
Neil Young, Tedeschi Trucks Band and Richard & Linda Thompson

Show 63
07/20/11
Songs from Yes's Yesshows album
Michael McDonald with the Doobie Brothers
and The Grateful Dead

Show-62
06/22/11
The Firesign Theatre's "Boom Dot Bust'
+ various songs

Show-61
04/27/11
Dawn Foster's "All The Things That You Do"
and Monty Python Skits

Show-60
03/30/11
The Doobie Brothers' "World Gone Crazy"

Show-59
03/16/11
Mark Knopfler's "Sailing To Philadelphia"

Show-58
03/02/11
The Rutles
(Beatles parody band)

Show-57
02/16/11
The Music Of Rosanne Cash

Show-56
01/05/11
"Everything You Know Is Wrong"
an evening with the Firesign Theatre

Show-55
12/08/10
(The Austin Lounge Lizards album "Small Minds", plus songs by Mark Knopfler and Lyle Lovett)

Show-54
11/24/10
(misc artists)

Show-53
11/10/10
My cousin Glenn's picks for a Blues music set

Show-52
10/13/10
an evening at the Jersey Shore with blues rockers
Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes

Show-51
09/01/10
Elton John
and
 The Grateful Dead's "Blues For Allah"


Show-50

08/18/10
(misc artists)

Show-49
08/04/10
Hiroshima/Nagasaki Rememberance, featuring music from
Carrie Newcomer
Utopia
Jeff (Arc Angel) Cannata
Yes

Show-48
07/07/10
(misc artists)

Show-47
06/09/10
Tribute to Dusty Springfield


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Latest Roadkill Report: - Coming Soon: Computer Chip Implants for Human Tracking - by Mark Slavo - There¹s been quite quite a bit of discussion about how RFID, or Radio Frequency ID chips might be used to monitor people¹s activities
Roadkill Link - Article at Lew Rockwell - http://lewrockwell.com/slavo/slavo74.1.html
Roadkill Link - SHTF Plan http://www.shtfplan.com/
Roadkill Link - Wiki article on This Perfect Day - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Perfect_Day

24-bit High Quality Downloads may soon be available from Apple and Sony.
Roadkill Link - Apple in talks to improve sound quality of music downloads - http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/02/22/24.bit.music/
Roadkill Link - Beats Audio - http://www.beatsbydre.com/
Roadkill Link - Sony launches music-streaming service in U.S. - http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/02/17/sony.qriocity/index.html
Roadkill Link - Will Spotify have gaps in its U.S. 'digital jukebox?' - http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/12/10/spotify.us.launch/index.html?iref=allsearch

The Very First Cell Phone Call - The man who made the first call from a truly portable phone, back in 1973.
Roadkill Link - 38 years ago he made the first cell phone call
http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/04/01/greene.first.cellphone.call/index.html

Cellphone Tracking - You'll be amazed about the amount of data which is being collected and stored when you simply use your cell phone.
Roadkill Link - It’s Tracking Your Every Move and You May Not Even Know - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/26/business/media/26privacy.html?_r=1

How We Are Being Tracked - listen to articles concerning the technology being used to track the thoughts and habits of average Americans.  Is this what you expect of the government and the companies you do business with?
Roadkill Link - 10 Ways We Are Being Tracked, Traced, and Databased - http://www.activistpost.com/2010/07/ten-ways-we-are-being-tracked-traced.html
Roadkill Link - A Nation of Cringing Wretches…. - http://www.lewrockwell.com/peters-e/peters-e19.1.html

I read an article by Karen DeCoster about her nostalgia over her old pre-digital audio gear called "I Refuse To Let Go Of My Retro".
Roadkill Link - http://karendecoster.com/i-refuse-to-let-go-of-my-retro.html

The 'Green Police' need to know about your trash.  Taxpayer's money from the Federal government 'stimulus' program is being used to put Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) on your trash cans.

Celebs beware! New Pandora's box of 'personal' drones that could stalk anyone from Brangelina to your own child
- The Daily Mail UK on the use of robot drones by police and even you and me.
Roadkill Link - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1327343/Personal-recreation-drones-developed.html

How Google plans to clone you- Google is working on a virtual version of you. Will you call it 'Mini-Me?'
Roadkill Link - How Google Plans To Clone You - http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9199638/Mike_Elgan_How_Google_plans_to_clone_you
Roadkill Link - Google buys speech synthesis firm, Phonetic Arts - http://blogs.computerworld.com/17467/google_buys_speech_synthesis_firm_phonetic_arts
Roadkill Link - Don't look now, but you're a cyborg - http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9130685/Elgan_Don_t_look_now_but_you_re_a_cyborg

MIDI will now be implemented in iOS 4.2 - Your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch will be able to record and play MIDI.  You will also be able to use them as MIDI Controllers.
The Obama administration wants to be able to monitor all sommunications, including your private and encrypted communications on the Internet.  The new powers would have a profound affect.  Listen to my reading of Charlie Savage's article entitled, “U.S. Wants to Make It Easier to Wiretap the Internet”.
An article about new nano technologies which might be used for Mind Control
Roadkill Link - Mind Control? Scientists Have Discovered How To Use Nanoparticles To Remotely Control Behavior! - http://tinyurl.com/24zol89
Two articles concerning the Music Business and Copyrights.  A music service that knows if you have too many pirated songs, and Don Henley's battle against a politician who used his songs for political campaign advertizement.
Roadkill Link - Carphone's music service to seek and destroy freetards? - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/05/carphone_pirates_beware/
Roadkill Link - MP3 Tags - http://www.id3.org/
Roadkill Link -  clean out ID3 tags - http://www.id3.org/Implementations
Roadkill Link - Eagles singer wins case against US politico - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/06/eagles_don_henley_chuck_devore_copyright/

A new Biological Solar Panel technology which utilizes algae to create an oil substitute biofuel.
Roadkill Link - Oil Rig of the Future: A Solar Panel That Produces Oil - http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=biofuel-diatoms

Two New BatteryTtechnologies, one using paper, and the other genetically engineered viruses.
Roadkill Link - Battery made of paper charges up - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8401566.stm
Roadkill Link - Virus battery could 'power cars' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7977585.stm

Getting connected: Europe's green energy 'supergrid' - Europe is planning a new combined electric grid which will link varied 'renewable energy' sources.  What a great idea...
Roadkill Link - Europe's green energy 'supergrid' - http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/science/01/26/eco.energy.grid/
Roadkill Link - European Wind Energy Association - http://www.ewea.org/

Rhapsody Goes Indepemdent - a story about the newly-independent Rhapsody International music service.
Roadkill Link - http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/04/rhapsody-shrugs-off-real-viacom-to-become-a-start-up/
Roadkill Link - http://www.rhapsody.com/home.html

My reading of Texas Representative Ron Paul's article on the Real ID Act.  You don't want to miss this one, about the creation of a National ID Card.
Roadkill Link - National ID Cards Won't Stop Terrorism or Illegal Immigration - http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul248.html
Roadkill Link - HR 418 “Real ID Act” at the Library of Congress - http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.418:
Roadkill Link - HR 418 “Real ID Act” at Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REAL_ID_Act

 Alan Turning and the Ace Computer - We take internet communications pretty much for granted these days.  In fact, it’s become so commonplace that it’s now hard to imagine a modern society without it.  Well, despite his comments to the contrary, Al Gore did not invent the internet.  In fact the technical underpinnings were first developed by Englishman Alan Turing and his associates Jim Wilkinson and Harry Huskey as far back as the late 1940’s.
Roadkill Link - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8498826.stm

It looks like we're getting close to being able to use 'wireless electricity' in the consumer product market.  Listen to Chris Taylor's article on Invisible Power.
Roadkill Link - Invisible Power - http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/24/smallbusiness/next_little_thing_2010.fsb/index3.htm
Roadkill Link - WiTricity Corporation - http://www.witricity.com/
Roadkill Link - Wikipedia/Wireless energy transfer - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_energy_transfer
Roadkill Link - Wireless Home Digital Interface - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Home_Digital_Interface

An article about a new Apple Advertising Patent, and another about How To Turn Your iPhone Into A Musical Instrument
Roadkill Link - It's an ad ad ad ad world - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/16/intrusive_apple_ad_patent/
Roadkill Link - Tapping Your Inner Clapton - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/technology/personaltech/01basics.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=technology

Two articles concerning New Technology To Assist The Sight And Hearing Impared.
Roadkill Link - Point, shoot, listen - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/10/intel_reader/
Roadkill Link - Intel Reader video demo - http://www.intel.com/healthcare/reader/video.htm
Roadkill Link - Deaf-blind communication goes portable - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8183838.stm

The iShoe - Apple submits two very interesting new patents,
Roadkill Link -  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/29/apple_headgear_and_footwear_patents/

Windmill Farms Affecting Communications?  You bet they can...
Roadkill Link - “Ofcom gets puffed out over wind turbines” - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/03/ofcom_wind/

The latest flurry of Apple Patents, including a patent for Karoke Lesson Technology.
    Roadkill link - Apple Patents - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/02/apple_patent_flood/

An article about scientist Hans Christian Ørsted, who pioneered electromagnetics, and one from Jeffrey Tucker on Music For Tech Support.
    Roadkill Link - Hans Christian Ørsted - http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/08/090814-hans-christian-orsted-oersted-who.html
    Roadkill Link - Music For Tech Support - http://www.lewrockwell.com/tucker/tucker162.html

- Two articles from Scott Wilkinson of Electronic Musician Magazine.  The reacTable multi-user synthesizer, and a new form of audio compression called Spike
    Roadkill Link - Gather Round the reacTable - http://emusician.com/futuretech/emusic_gather_round_reactable/
    Roadkill Link - Spiked Punch - http://emusician.com/futuretech/emusic_spiked_punch/

- "Brainwaves put patients in touch" - about a system called OpenVibe to help sufferers of locked in syndrome and to develop understanding of the human mind.
    Roadkill Link - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/8108934.stm

- a story from MIT about a Computerized Acoustic Guitar, capable of mimicking many instruments
    Roadkill Link  - http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/chameleon-guitar-0203.html

- a BBC piece on NanoRobots made of Chemicals rather than machines
    Roadkill Link - 'Chemical robots' swarm together - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8044200.stm
    Roadkill Link - Karel Capek - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek

- A new submersible which can fly like A Jet Under Water
    Roadkill Link - Jet Submarine - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8049179.stm
    Roadkill Link - The Flying Sub - http://bcliffe.com/subs/FS1.html

- A story about Scientists Making Machines Which Replace Scientists, and two new Apple Patents for controlling media devices, and ways to improve graphic user interfaces.

- A Virtual Reality Helmet which will mimic all 5 senses, and a new media player called the iToaster

- Two articles about Music Playback Technology - The LALA music service, and the XBox physical interface for PDA music players.

- Guido The Great - Jeffrey Tucker's article on the 10th century Catholic monk who invented sheet music notation.

- The Hadron Supercollider - “How the Large Hadron Collider Might Change the Web” - The LHC Computing Grid may teach the Internet how to quietly handle reams of information

- New Eco Technology - two articles about generating electricity from wave power, and solutions to carbon emmissions

- Two articles by Libertarian Jeffrey Tucker on the subject of Intellectual Property

- Has The Isle of Man finally found a way to make file sharing legal?

- A retired Texas professor belives he's discovered the secret of the Stradivarius violin, + The world's fastest electric car, the Aero EV

Don't meddle with mother nature: Conservation plan to cull cats backfires as rabbits overwhelm Australian island + Harry Potter-style cloak of invisibility created by scientists

- Obama's Black Widow - Bush's legacy to telecommunications?  Big Brother is listening in, very closely, and not just at prospective terrorists.

- Let There Be Light - a look into the possible future of computing, Photonics

- Google Search Results - are they really impartial?  The evidence suggests not...

- The iPhone Story - how the iPhone came to be, and how it changed the relationship between phones and telecom service providers

- The Machines Take Over - AI (Artificial Intelligence) may give humans a run for their money


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