Episode 45: 45: Star Wars is Not a Blog Post
Hypercritical
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5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2011
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin follow up on a host of topics: what ails Microsoft, the (slow, partial) democratization of corporate IT, the people vs. George Lucas, perpetual copyright, applications as art, Siri backlash, and the evils of Blu-ray.
Links for this episode:
- In Defense of Microsoft (or, You Cannot Have Your Cake and Eat It Too) - Michael Anderson
- Let’s Stop with the Siri Baiting - TidBITS
- George Lucas's 1988 Speech About Preserving Films, and Maybe Not Adding a Bunch of CGI Shit to Them - I Watch Stuff
- Do As I Say, Not As I Do: George Lucas Quotes on Film Preservation - Save Star Wars
- TV isn't broken, so why fix it? - CNN.com
- Siri Is Apple's Broken Promise - Gizmodo
- Ridley Scott: The Only Way to See a Film
- National Film Registry - Wikipedia
- More Details On Pete Docter Movie That ‘Takes You Inside The Mind’
- John Lasseter on Charlie Rose
- Giga - Wikipedia
- A "Jon" that's not short for Jonathan - Twitter
- Why Siri had to start in beta - Benoit Maison
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| 0:00.0 | This is hypercritical weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies and business is nothing is so perfect that it can't be complained about. |
| 0:14.0 | By my co-host, John Syracusea, |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Dan Benjamin. |
| 0:18.0 | Today is December 9, 2011. |
| 0:19.0 | This is episode number 45. |
| 0:22.0 | We would like to say thanks to our sponsors smile software and |
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| 0:50.0 | John Sir, is it Jonathan or John Siracusa? |
| 0:55.0 | Just John, J-O-H-N. |
| 0:58.0 | So if I were to go pull out your birth certificate, J-O-H-N. |
| 1:01.0 | That's right. |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah, it's what you would say on it. Not J-O-H-A-O-H-A-O-N. |
| 1:04.0 | That's right. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm a fan of the J-O-N spelling. |
| 1:08.0 | Not me. |
| 1:09.0 | No. |
| 1:10.0 | Need the age. |
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