OMN 10 [34:53m]:
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Forgot to set my save file correctly, so ran out of drive space. So, had to re-record after Audacity crashed. That’s why tonights show is both late and a lot shorter than intended.
My throat is killing me.
~ Sci
Followups:
Not that you should be eating petfood anyway..
And the why (Thankyou Destined!)
News:
Happy sky-clearence!
Be nice to you co-workers in Texas
Freaky, pointless and ill informed
The UK is watching you
Why the RIAA doesn’t want defendants exonerated (thankyou Destined!)
Science & Tech:
Too good to be true: transparent battery
“Get the Halo on him!”
PS: This is what browsing the net will be like in 10 years.
OMN #9 [66:58m]:
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Evening folks! Tonights show again features a complete lack of backing music, and is co-hosted by Millie for the first time.
No advert graphics yet I’m afraid. My bad.
At least my throat’s not fucked up anymore.
And here is the news…
~ Sci
Followups:
Bank fees - Bank managers shown on TV boasting of how they overcharge
The use-and-loose army - How Specialist Town Lost His Benefits (and this would be why)
Petfood - MenuFoods KNEW Their Product Was Deadly
News:
Isreal - From the school of bad ideas: Hooters heading for Holy Land
USA - School’s Policy Prohibits Use Of MySpace Site
USA - Born-again abortion clinics
USA - Vonage ordered to stop using Verizon VoIP patents (thanks supercommodore)
UK - (In BlackSheep news) Vigilante attack sheep guard British village (thanks Destined!)
Science and Tech:
USA/Internet - US company offers Wi-Fi-proof paint (thanks Destined!)
Required reading:
Iraq - Kids used as decoys in car bomb
It’s not in the show, but I feel the need to mention this story:
A federal judge on Thursday threw out a 1998 law that makes it a crime for commercial Web site operators to let children access “harmful” material.
“Perhaps we do the minors of this country harm if First Amendment protections, which they will with age inherit fully, are chipped away in the name of their protection,”
Running the show solo tonight with a very sore throat, so hopefully I’m understandable. Any questions or comments, let the news team know at news@openmicnews.org
And here is the news..
~ Sci
Feedback:
UK - ID cards, vehicle tracking, governments and information hording (reply to Rocky)
Request:
Corperate sponcership of police teams in London?
(Wednesdays “London Lite”, top right, page 2. Further info?)
Followups:
USA - FBI caught with pants down, so reverces “no pants” policy
USA - Life inside Walter Reed (thanks Ender Stonebender!)
News:
USA - House overturns Bush order on papers secrecy (Leading into things like this..?)
UK/Society - Not potential murderers anymore!
USA - Something’s wrong with your country when you have to cite the constitution over Winnie the Pooh socks
Europe/Germany - German animal rights campaigners demand only the untainted animals be allowed to live..
USA/Iraq - Female soldiers so scared of being raped, they die from dehydration rather than risk going for water at night.
Link HERE
And HERE
And HERE
USA - Nothing to lose
Science & Tech:
Emotive feedback headset
Heads up:
USA/Detroit - City for sale?
USA -Â Strong Suspicions of Toxicity in One GMO Corn
USA - And the same for your pets!
My very first show!!!!
…a bit late but there were some technical issues (laptop died) so I lost my notes and the news links (crypto is such a n00b). The background sounds like I’m recording next to a river and I wasn’t able to add the music tracks I had prepared but at least we didn’t miss a show. Any comments or if anyone finds the links for the news stories I did please send them to me and I’ll post them up. Next show I do will be better, I promise.
Open Mic News - Episode Six [42:27m]:
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Macavity’s the mystery cat, he’s called the Hidden Paw
For he’s the master criminal who can defy the law . . . .
. . . not to mention I’ve also got my first episode of Open Mic News recorded. (And about bloody time too!)
It’s a bit short - only about 45 minutes - but at least it’s done, and in this edition we’re covering the following stories:
(USA/World?) Law enforcement uses cell phones as mobile ‘bugs’
(USA) FBI screws up with PATRIOT-granted powers
(UK/World) From junk mail to junk world: how mass-marketing tools can be used politically
(USA) Forget DWI, let’s focus on DWT (driving while texting)!
EDIT: Sample-rate/playback-speed issue resolved. Please re-download if you have the earlier version. - Admin
What follows is a transcript from the Monday, March 12th show prologue..
(more…)
OMN 005 [66:57m]:
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Hey, sorry it’s late. Doing tonight’s show’s ripped my throat up quite a bit.
The prologue of tonights episode will be posted seperately.
No backing music, by popular demand. Co-host tonight was my friend Patrick, called in at the last minute. Audio quality is low for Pat as only one headset mic was available tonight.
And again, thanks for Zlias for some great newslinks! Submit your own to: news@openmicnews.org
~ Sci
In the news:
Followups:
USA/War - “This Is Not Right”
USA/Media - Not quite followup: Sixth and seventh newspapers drop Coulter
USA/Army - Not just France! U.S. Military Defends Erasing Journalists’ Footage of Afghanistan Attack
News:
Online - Virtual drugs
Isreal/El Salvador - Israel recalls ‘naked ambassador’
UK - Particle physics on the cancer ward
USA - FBI Abuses May Lead to Patriot Act Limits
USA - Top Gun aircraft are seized from US museums in ‘paranoia’ raids
Alerts:
UK - Don’t like ID cards? Hand over your passport
Sweden - Big brother’ surveillance makes waves in Sweden
Leading into..
Olofsson claims Sweden has tapped phones ‘for decades’
USA - MATRIX Reloaded: Homeland Security revives supersnoop
Usefull stuff:
Make your own biodiesel
OMN 004 [37:13m]:
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It’s still thursday SOMEWHERE.
We had a very last minute cancelation from Macavity as his sore throat just wouldn’t let him run his show.
No background music due to time. Also well under the intended hour. Does it work any better/worse? Evolution comes through harsh conditions.
My co-host, Munky! - “I’m having a momment! I’m like language!”
Evolved and developed. Are you a citizen journalist yet? If you’re interested in becoming an OMN news host or have stories for us, drop us a line to news@openmicnews.org.
~ Sci
In the news:
Europe, France - France bans citizen journalists from reporting violence (thanks Zlias!)
(Reference for World Press Freedoms)
Asia, South Korea - Robotic age poses ethical dilemma
USA/World? - WIPO Broadcast Treaty could screw over media authors
USA - Diebold dropping voting machines!
USA - US Department of Transport bans Windows Vista
PS: As an afterthought, does this new french law also cover acts of violence against non-humans, such as animals?
OMN 003 [63:26m]:
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Good evening ladies and gents! Sorry for the late uploading of this mondays show. All in all, this episode required editing out of a full 20 minutes of silence, umms and errs. The flow really wasn’t with us this sunday.
This time around, my co-host has been the wonderfull Wardy, joining me to comment on the news and let us know about next weekends charity event going on at Tiger Tails Radio, the TigerTails Charity Gunging.
The problem with the Skype recorder plugin PowerGramo has now been partially solved.
I managed to export one wav file using the latest version, before it jammed into only exporting in OGG format. Another support email has gone off.
I would also like to say a big hello to any new visitors and listeners we might have, thanks to the plug from Sean Kennedy himself, of NewsReal. If you don’t know why this is an especially awsome thing for OMN, please go look at the inspiration behind this in the “About” section.
My apologies for the reduced recording quality in the first half of the show, due to problems with the plugin.
The music you can hear in the background is from my “Born to be wild” Classic rock album.
And now the news..
~ Sci
Followups:
News:
Alerts:
Usefull stuff:
PS: We’ve heard from Macavity, he survived the blizzard and is not currently dead.
OMN 002 [61:39m]:
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Well hello again everyone. I’m sorry if you’re looking in for Macavitys report today. He’s snowed in, and can’t get to a location where he can upload his show. So instead we have myself and co-host Silverfang performing OMN’s first emergency backup show. Sorry it’s a bit late in the day.
Hopefully Mac’s show will be available next week.
This is also the first show I’ve done with the Skype recorder plugin, PowerGramo. For recording, it worked very nicely, but there is a glitch in the current version that doesn’t allow it to export as wav or OGG. This should be fixed in the next release, but for the momment the only way get audio out of it is to let it run for the length of the recording, and use Audacity to rip it from the Stereo Mixer.
~ Sci
Here is the news:
Inquiry into ‘contaminated’ fuel
Q & A with Lewis Hamilton
London plans to be world’s greenest city
How the war on terror made the world a more terrifying place
Iraq’s Superbombs: Home Made?
Walter Reed patients told to keep quiet
US warship monitors pirates
Milestone for giant physics lab
Tape dispenser causes town alert
=Keep and eye on this=
