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Too Much Internet

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Listen to the <a href="http://globalvoicesonline.org/-/world/middle-east-noth-africa/egypt/">Internet revolution live from Tahrir Square</a>. Also, <a href="http://www.friendfactor.org/">Gay activists</a> use Facebook to fight for freedom. <a href="http://www.hiphopslam.com">Billy Jam</a> reports on the <a href="http://savekusf.org/">KUSF community radio</a> shutdown and <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/evgenymorozov">Evgeny Morosov</a> talks about his new book "Net Delusion." PLUS Message Party!

Net Delusions

<a href="http://www.salon.com/life/internet_culture/index.html?story=/mtwt/feature/2011/01/18/what_i_can_find_online">Ada Calhoun</a> shows us just how much she can find out about us while <a href="http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2011/03/features/sharing-is-a-trap">Andrew Keen</a> tells us sharing is endangering our humanity. <a href="http://nymag.com/news/features/70977/">Alex Morris</a> tells us what the internet has done to young love and <a href="http://loveandradio.org">Nick Van Der Kolk</a> tells 'us what OK Cupid has done for his love life. PLUS: Your host visits an exhibit celebrating Cable Access TV from the early 80s and <a href="http://www.didierbigo.com/">Didier Bigo</a> explains his theory of the 'Data Double.'


Free To Behave Like A Fool Or A Machine

Episode 26 - Eric Andre.  Yoni heads over to a real hollywood production office to meet Eric for a limited time.  Eric is eating lunch and stretching on a foam roller and just always active.  Yoni follows him with the recording device.  The two discuss their beginnings, the elusive 'truth drug', religion/agnosticism, and Korean jack-shack workers with man hands.

Episode 26 - Eric Andre

Your host gets Internet overload at South By SouthWest Interactive, and gets a lesson in Branded Media and Coupons. <a href="http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html">Paul Ford</a> explains why the Internet is a customer service medium and TMI's Chris tells us about Operation Persona. For more information visit the WFMU TMI page


Photographer Robert Burley takes pictures of the end of Analog for his book The disappearance of darkness. Christine Frohnert explains how conservators must care for Art with a Plug. Curator Christiane Paul tells us how the Whitney Museum of American Art restored the digital artwork "The world's first collaborative sentence" by Douglas Davis. And TOE's Washington D.C. corespondent 'Chris' tells us the truth about Edward Snowden and Snapchat. 

Artifacts (1 of 2)

As part of 2014 Norton Lecture series, Herbie Hancock, who was endowed with the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship in Poetry, gave his first lecture at Harvard on February 3, 2014. In this clip he discusses how Miles Davis reinvigorated his musical imagination and helped him innovate. 

Herbie Hancock "The Wisdom of Miles Davis" clip | Soundbytes

Uniforms matter. When it comes to sports, they might be the only thing to which we're actually loyal.
Sports uniforms are packaging. But unlike any other packaging, if the product inside changes or degrades, we remain loyal.  Players come and go, but change the uniform, and you'll hear about it.
There are very few ways for players to put their own personal style into their uniforms. In baseball, in the face of huge opposition from curved-brim loyalists, some players take the bold stance of wearing a straight brim, like George Sherrill who is nick-named "The Brim Reaper" for his flat-brimmed style.
But for people who really geek out about baseball uniforms (like Paul Lukas from Uni Watch) the space below the knee may be the most interesting.  It is here that players have the most choices, can make the biggest statement, and be, in the words of Lukas, masters of their own "uni-verse."
Most players today choose to wear their pants long, but if you truly want to honor baseball's hosiery heritage, you should wear your pants up over your calves and a sharp pair of stirrups.

Paul Lukas of Uni Watch (and creator of the zine Beer Frame, to which 99% Invisible owes a considerable debt) talked with Jesse Thorn, host of the NPR show Bullseye, owner of Maximumfun.org, and life-long SF Giants fans, even though it's really hard to wear the cap out because black and orange doesn't go with anything.

99% Invisible-111- Masters of the Uni-verse

In 1990, the federal government invited a group of geologists, linguists, astrophysicists, architects, artists, and writers to the New Mexico desert, to visit the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. They were there on a mission.
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is the nation's only permanent underground repository for nuclear waste. Eventually, WIPP will be sealed up and left alone. Years will pass and those years will become decades. Those decades will become centuries and those centuries will roll into millennia. People above ground will come and go. Cultures will rise and fall. And all the while, below the surface, that cave full of waste will get smaller and smaller, until the salt caverns swallow up all those oil drums and entombs them. Then, all the old radioactive gloves and tools and little bits from bombs –all still radioactive– will be solidified in the earth's crust for more than 200,000 years. Basically forever.
The problem that the aforementioned panel was convened to address was how to convey this information to people 10,000 years in the future, when language and symbols may be so different as to make direct communication impossible.

99% Invisible-114- Ten Thousand Years

This episode features a story made by Audio Smut (http://audiosmut.ca), a podcast about "your body, your heart, and your junk." Directed and produced by Kaitlin Prest in collaboration with composer Shani Aviram, this story is about how our thoughts can deceive us when we're falling head over heels. This story was developed and written based on 17 interviews on the topic of perception in early romantic relationships.  

Audio Smut's editors and story guides are Mitra Kaboli and Sharon Mashihi. Their associate producer is Shira Bannerman. 

Special thanks to Jen Ng, Megan Detrie, Samara Breger, and Ann Hepperman. And to the people interviewed for this piece, especially Ayinde Bennet, Armen Bazarian and Caroline McKeown.


Audio Smut

What happens when you curse your own country? In this version of the classic Americana tale your host is sentenced to live out the rest of his days in a hot air balloon.  In part two of the story your host has his first human interaction in ten years. Plus radio host Glynn Washington tells us what it was like to grow up black in a white-supremacist Christian cult. 

Man Without a Country (2 of 3)

What is the link between the way plants make use of sunlight, the migration of the European robin, our sense of smell, and mutations in DNA? Jim Al-Khalili believes the exciting new field of quantum biology may provide the answers. He is one of a growing number of scientists using quantum mechanics to describe the workings of the wet, warm biological world. This lecture is a heady mix of the weirdness of quantum mechanics and its still speculative applications in biology - all based on his forthcoming book out early next year. Presented by the Cambridge Humanist Group. - See more at: http://www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/events/fully-booked-sir-hermann-bondi-lecture-life-edge-coming-age-quantum-biology#sthash.nNFYRZ5q.dpuf

Sir Hermann Bondi lecture: life on the edge - the coming of age of quantum biology

We tour Bold Machines with Makerbot co-founder Bre Pettis to learn about the future of Maker culture. Plus we visit China to learn what the next generation of Chinese makers have planned for the future. 

Making it Happen

What happens when a woman sends a stocky blond stranger to tell her ex she loves him. 

#1 A Stranger Says I Love You

An app called Figure One wants to be Instagram, but for doctors. Why would doctors need their own Instagram? We spy on the secret & disgusting medical internet, plus we speak to one of its residents. 

#2 The Secret, Gruesome Internet For Doctors

Our mini-series about the internet continues. This week we take a close look at the fundamental business model of the web - advertising. In 1993 your host was a founding member of an international monkey wrench gang that fought billboards in outer space. He recently ran into one of his old comrades in Midtown-South (Manhattan’s tech district) and discovered that his side actually lost the war. Ethan Zuckerman, the man who invented the pop up ad, admits that we must rethink the fundamentals of the web, and activist, writer, and filmmaker Astra Taylor questions whether the internet actually benefits independent creators.

Paying For It (the dislike club part II)

Twenty years ago, Ethan Zuckerman did something terrible on the internet. And he's still living with the consequences.

#3 We Know What You Did

If you are looking at a computer screen, your right hand is probably resting on a mouse.  To the left of that mouse (or above, if you're on a laptop) is your keyboard. As you work on the computer, your right hand moves back and forth from keyboard to mouse. You can't do everything you need to do on a computer without constantly moving between input devices.

There is another way.

99% Invisible-149- Of Mice And Men

In 1980, 18-year-old Michelle Busha left home and never returned. It’s every family’s worst nightmare and it’s a circumstance so tragic that it touched a complete stranger thousands of miles away. 

Reporter Michael Montgomery meets two women who didn’t know each other, but each had a deep connection to the young woman who disappeared 35 years ago. 

Solving the case was bittersweet. Both women found the answers they were seeking, but one had to face the reality of her sister’s chilling death.

Buried In Blue Earth

The internet illuminati tells us how to think about Wikileaks. For <a href="http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/">Ethan Zuckerman</a> and <a href="http://www.rushkoff.com/">Douglas Rushkoff</a>, it's kind of an "I Told You So" moment. <a href="http://www.ellsberg.net/">Daniel Ellsberg</a> explains why Bradley Manning is a better comparison than Julian Assange while <a href="http://jilliancyork.com/">Jillian York</a> says FAIL to Time Magazine's choice for person of the year. Cartoonist <a href="http://joealterio.com/">Joe Alterio</a> draws the cables and <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/trailhead.html">Christopher Beam</a> celebrates the diplomatic 'talent' pool. Plus <a href="http://gabriellacoleman.org/">Gabriella Coleman</a> on Anonymous, <a href="http://www.evgenymorozov.com/">Evgeny Morozov</a> on DDOS, and your host asks "What Would China Do?"

All You Have to do is Ask (TMI Wikileaks Special)

<a href="http://icarusfilms.com/new2010/disco.html">Jaak Kilmi</a> talks about his childhood watching Finnish TV in Soviet Estonia and <a href="http://www.anasqtiesh.com/">Anas Qtiesh</a> talks about how Facebook is both banned and popular in Syria. Your host talks with <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Cold-War-World-Letters/dp/1565846648">Frances Stonor Saunders</a> who wrote the seminal book on the CIA and Abstract Expressionism and we learn about <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Edward-Hopper-Biography-Gail-Levin/dp/0520214757">Edward Hopper's</a> love of Reality. Plus a deep look at the CIA's Operation Real World.

Cultural Freedom

<a href="http://ekotodi.blogspot.com/">Luc Sante</a> tells the story of H.P. Lovecraft while your host dreams of <a href="http://www.hplfilmfestival.com/">"Cthulhu Con."</a> <a href="http://www.myspace.com/mspacmanhasacentipedis">Brooklyn Musicians</a> dream of "Brand Aid." Plus: a lecture on the concept of the unreliable narrator.



Keeping It Real

We take a trip round the web to meet fellow TMiers: the 2006 runner up <a href="http://www.tmi-band.com/">cover band</a> from Tuscon, a BBC <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n55tq">radio comedy programme</a>, a recent <a href="http://lindsayallyndrucker.com/">unemployed college graduate</a>, and a strange <a href="http://tmi-comic.com/">cartoonist</a>. Also we meet "Chris" the TMi Washington D.C. correspondent for the first time. Plus your host explains why he chose to name the program "Too Much Information" in the first place, and why a good name is the most important factor when creating a new radio show. 

What's In A Name

<a href="http://www.barbaraehrenreich.com/brightsided.htm">Barbara Ehrenreich</a> says NO WAY to "Smile or Die", Peter Choyce tries out <a href="http://www.couchsurfing.org/">Couchsurfing</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/ZigZiglarQuotes">Zig Ziglar</a> Tweets, <a href="http://www.jeetheer.com/">Jeet Heer</a> 'splains Little Orphan Annie, <a href="http://hotchickssmilingatgroundzero.com/">Hot Chicks smile at Ground Zero</a>, <a href="http://stores.lulu.com/staceychil">Stacey Chillemi</a> talks about the benefits of being positive while your host talks up the POWER OF NEGATIVE THINKING

Power of Negative Thinking

Peter Choyce has problems with his noisy neighbors, Laura Mayer has problems with Beer Pong, Galeb Numa has problems with profiling, "chris" has problems with the BP Oil Spill, and your host has a big problem with Chat Roulette. Plus a feature on Kickstarter.com For more information visit the <a href="http://wfmu.org/playlists/TI">WFMU TMI page.</a>


Kicking Against The Pricks

This week we get status updates from TMi regulars Peter Choyce, <a href="http://andreasilenzi">Andrea Silenzi</a> and "Chris." <a href="http://timwu.org">Tim Wu</a> "Mr. Net Neutrality" tells us about his new book "The Master Switch" and Director <a href="http://philochsthemovie.com">Ken Bowser</a> tells us about his new Phil Ochs biopic "There but for Fortune." Plus: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/New-York-Dick-Galen-Smith/dp/1935613022">Galen Smith's</a> New York Dick! For more information visit the <a href="http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/38878">WFMU TMI page</a>

What A Difference Makes

Socrates famously said "the unexamined life is not worth living." But he also said "actions are more reliable evidence than words." In his new book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Examined-Lives-Nietzsche-James-Miller/dp/0374150850">"Examined Lives,"</a> <a href="http://www.newschool.edu/nssr/faculty.aspx?id=10346">James Miller</a> examines the lives of 12 Philosophers who attempt to talk the talk and walk the walk.


The Philosophical Life

Radio/Podcast host:
"Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything" a proud member of PRX's Radiotopia collective. http://radiotopia.fm 
"Too Much Information" WFMU (2009 - 2013)
"The Big Ideas Podcast" The Guardian UK (2011 - 2012) 