Xeni on Leo Laporte's This Week in Tech, ep. #274: "I'll Take the Frisking"

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Leo Laporte kindly invited me to join a cast of merry men (John C. Dvorak, Brian Brushwood, Owen JJ Stone) on This Week In Tech, and I did. We had lots of fun.

Topics included "Facebook mail, privacy while living in public, Android tablets, person of the year nominees, zoning out on Tetras, IAmTwittercus, and more." By "more," they mean Cthulhu and donkey-bonking.

You can watch and/or listen here. Good heavens, the episode has its own Wiki Page. Some fans delivered liquor to the cabin where they tape it, so all of the dudes (save Dvorak) were extra loose and punchy this time. The episode really is full of surprises. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Thanks for inviting me, Leo and TWiT team. And thanks for being so nice to me in the IRC channel, TWiT army.

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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txhoudini

I’ve been a listener to TWiG since episode #1 and I keep thinking it’s time to subscribe to TWiT. Now I am about to finally do so, Leo, Xeni *and* Brian? I am so there.
Anonymous

Xeni, you are uniquely qualified to talk intelligently about a variety of tech subjects, which makes for a perfect TwiT guest.

I appreciated your insightful comments, you really added a lot to the show.
Anonymous

Xeni– you were fantastic. I had a BLAST, and it looks like part of our conversation on TSA security showed up on yesterday’s #1 Drudge Report story… wow! http://www.prisonplanet.com/tsa-now-putting-hands-down-fliers-pants.html

thanks again for joining us. you were awesome.

Brian
Dave Faris

I used to be an avid listener to the TWiT podcast, but at some point, it seemed to get really all wrapped up with dick measuring contests about who had the most twitter followers, and stopped being informative, and I gave up on it. Has it gotten any better again? (I should mention that another of Leo’s podcasts, “Security Now,” is and was always worth listening to.)
Anonymous

Glad you had fun, Xeni; it kind of sounded like you didn’t. Hope you’re on again soon.
allen

I think that really- the idea that we should all accept public lives first needs to be endorsed by marginalized demographics like the transgendered before we define it as “no big deal”. People who enjoy a lot of privilege aren’t really the ones that should make that decision.
haineux

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha's_hand

Two uses for Buddha hand:
1) scary pictures
2) citrus peel oil.
Anonymous

@Xeni What email provider/service would you recommend for those of us looking for a bit more security/protection with our (email) communications.
seyo

I find it odd that my sincere compliment was removed. I’m sorry that it was deemed offensive, apparently.
UndeadBard

Out of all the episodes you had to be invited to the one where the cast was drunk? Hail Eris!

Personally I was hoping Cthulhu fruit would jump into Dvoraks monitor and suck on his face ever so carefully covering his mouth. Or…. Maybe just shutting his microphone off :) You made teh episode worth watching Xeni.
Xeni Jardin

Yes, I know I need a new headset.
DomoDomo

Glad you had a good time, while listening had kind of worried maybe that wasn’t the case…guess it’s hard to break into the conversation sometimes over the remote connection when everyone is in studio.

I listen to the show every week, and this episode was a crazy one for sure.
Anonymous

I enjoyed the show and free opinions but it got creepy when the guys started their advertainment bit for Ford. Also a few very aside comments showed me what type of people these geeks are. Not my type of people. It’s not a big shocker that Silicon Valley’s religion is Libertarianism and their guru Ayan Rand. Smart and in theory social liberals but because of the googol wealth of the industries many are Darwinian anarchists. OH and the long history with with the MIC doesn’t help. Who was that guy again who’s joining the board of Apple, Inc?

BTW- I AM Spartacus – is not about people sympathizing with religious terrorists but rather it represents the struggle of oppressed people (the Bottom 75% wage earner) fighting for their freedoms,hopes and their future against a owner-controller American aristocracy (Top 25%).
GeekMan

YA R’LYEH!!!
scifijazznik

Is that a… Cthulemon?