This week’s episode is like a major league ball player on steroids… oh wait… nevermind. On the Geek Top Three we do that thing we do so well and discuss how sticks and stones may break your bones, but rumors can hurt your stock price; Microsoft taking a hardline approach to console modders; and Scottie’s ashes have been recovered (that sound you hear is the emo cry of a million relieved Star Trek fans).
On Boston in Brief, the WBOS Earthfest, and Amanda Palmer gets her piano on with Hypernova at the Middle East.
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You left my brother’s band, Starr Faithfull, out of the program notes:
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I suck. Sorry. That wasn’t intentional.
It pains me to defend Microsoft… but, realistically, there’s really no way to insure that a hacked xbox can’t be used to seriously cheat. So disallowing them outright makes sense to me. The moment someone figures out some elegant cheat that relies on a mod’d xbox the gamers would be screaming for microsoft’s head (just imagine if you could gain gobs of marketplace points? there’d be fiddy thousand class action suits filed by angry gamers.). Frankly, I’m surprised they waited this long to do it.
The ‘no auto-ban for bad behaviour’ analogy doesn’t really work because spotting a mod’d xbox is a trivial technological issue, dealing with an offending human, on the other hand, is not an exact science.
God… I’ve defended microsoft. Fuckin kill me…
Listening late.
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