May 04

Platforms Episode 30 – Super Platforms IV Turbo EX Alpha Hyper HD Remix

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Josh Philpott and Dave Kozicki (with David ‘Beardy’ McVay)

Platforms is a gamers podcast by gamers. The podcast is recorded live on Ustream with chat interaction so come and join the fun as your host candidly discuss the latest in the gaming world. The podcast is uncensored, explicit, honest and very non ‘PC’. We kick off this week with the teaser for ‘Super Street Fighter IV’, this week’s feature review.

This show is recorded live on Ustream ever Monday at 8pm (AEST UTC +10). Continue reading

May 04

Geek Actually Replay – Platforms Episode 30 Live Show

Every week we record the Platforms Podcast while feeding it live to Ustream. We record the Ustream feed and it is available go back and watch later if you want. It occurred to me that we should just embed the past shows here so you can find them easily. You never know, you’re listening to that podcast and something visual happens, now you can simply find the show here and watch what happened. Enjoy.

Platforms Episode 30 (Recorded 3rd of May 2010)

May 04

Geek Actually Replay – Geek Actually Episode 82 Live Show

Here is this weeks live video version of The Geek Actually Podcast Episode 82 – Minor Geekgasm. This week David McVay, Josh Philpott and Ben O’Brien review the new uber geek film ‘Iron Man 2’. The audio podcast of this episode can be found on this site or on iTunes.

Almost every week we record the Geek Actually Podcast while feeding it live to Ustream. We record the Ustream feed and it is available go back and watch later if you want. It occurred to me that we should just embed the past shows here so you can find them easily. You never know, you’re listening to that podcast and something visual happens, now you can simply find the show here and watch what happened. Enjoy. (Note: We only started recording the feed as of episode 46, there are no videos of earlier shows.)

May 03

The PM Discovers the Hazards of Social Networking

According to news.com.au (on May 1st) Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has been having a bit of a PR problem when it was discovered that he is following porn on his Twitter account.

A little embarrassing for the PM, especially considering his stance on Internet Censorship, but actually quite innocent. The PM’s Twitter account basically does that same mistake that many noobs make, it auto follows all those who follow it. A spokesperson for the PM said, “While the Kevin PM Team try to monitor the follow backs, with more than 900,000 followers this is a very large task.” This is very true, just take a look at a few of the people I follow, but then again I’m not the PM and I like looking at porn :-) Continue reading

May 03

Is the Australian Internet Filter in Trouble?

I was reading the feeds today and I can across this article on news.com.au (dated April 30th) and I find it interesting that more hasn’t been made of it. Basically it is wondering why an official policy on the Internet Censorship Filter hasn’t been introduced into Parliament yet and was speculating if the much hyped Internet Censorship Filter may indeed have been scrapped before the next Federal election, due later this year.

As it turns out, the Rudd Labour government did come out with a statement to counter these claims, a spokesperson said “The Government is committed to the cyber safety policy.” And the government does plan to take the filter to the next election. Stephen Conroy (Federal Communications Minister and godfather of the filter) continues to try and sell his ‘the internet filter is needed to block access to material such as child pornography and other illegal content’ line, but I wonder what to read between the lines here. Continue reading

May 02

Geek Actually Episode 82 – Minor Geekgasm

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Hosts: David McVay, Josh Philpott and Ben O’Brien

The Geek Actually Podcast, your weekly dose of ‘the week in geek’. This week David McVay and Josh Philpott are joined again by Ben O’Brien for a series of geekgasms as we review ‘Iron Man 2’. We also take a look at news highlights from the tech and entertainment industries. Your show links follow.

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