Paul and Chris, left to their own devices nerd out about Doctor Who and review some of this fall’s new TV shows.

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• Paul’s internet fails - splat - and we reconnect again.
• Supercharged episode featuring router discussion.
• An Adventure in Space & Time is a fictional BBC original film about the early history of Doctor Who. The film was written by Mycroft!
• Rowan Atkinson plays The Doctor in The Curse of Fatal Death.
• Michael Sheen said he would love to be Doctor Who for less than an episode in a recent Nerdist Podcast.
• Romanadvoratrelundar is an incredibly long name to have to say.
• Nothing is not a great film says Chris.
• Paul & Chris review Mr. Nobody.
• The current series of Doctor Who will not be split in half.
• Forever is part Sherlock and part Highlander.
• Scorpion is another Sherlock wannabe. Most ridiculous hack ever.
• Random Trek recently watched The Original Series: I Mudd.
• Star Trek The Original Series in Cinerama?
• Chris recommends that you let Black Jesus into your life.
• Paul & Chris have both been using Baïkal.
• Paul put his new Baïkal calendar on a Digital Ocean server. Their service was suggested to us by former guest Jacob in a past episode, Stroker Ace: The Perplexing Mustache of Burt Reynolds.
• A PSA from Paul, “Exercise caution when using terminal.”
• Chris was testing Mailpile on his arkOS box.
• Once again Paul tries to explain PGP encryption to Chris. What? Email encryption.
• Paul’s newest domain is sexy.
• Drive carefully, kids.

The saucy specimen who joined us this episode via phone is David Sherry. If he was a James Bond character he would be Dr. Gold List. David and his mastermind partner, Allie want to bring Death to the Stock Photo.

• David was traveling to the Global Instameet in D.C.
• David & Allie’s approach to the business: create unique content, experiences and sharing those stories. So far they have funded road trips and interviewed other makers.
• We discuss numbers/analytics vs authentic interaction. How do you measure success?
• Speaking of authentic interaction, what would happen if you called your friends & family instead of Facebook-ing at them?
• A discussion of trying to stay connected to all the different social networks brings up the tent project again. You can find Chris & Paul on Cupcake.io, the first tent host.
• Paul compares social networks to cable channels. ello is a new social network on your dial.
• David thinks podcasting is a fascinating genre of media, but is it too crowded? Like his approach to his own projects, he suggests unique content. All of us share examples:
  • Hardcore History
  • Random Trek
  • Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee & Coffee Run (Deadmau5 takes people to Tim Hortons) .
• We talk about the popular use of comedy in brand building. While it works, as the old saying goes, “everyone is a comedian.” David thinks contrasting all that humor with emotional content is a better strategy. Of course, you can do uniquely humorous things. For example, listen to the “ad” at the beginning of this episode (around 1:42) of Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast!
• David recommends Buffer and MailChimp. While they sound like spammy tools, both products have influenced his strategy to directly phone users/customers and build real relationships & interactions.

Check out Death to the Stock Photo, follow their twitter account for upcoming events and contact David Sherry because he loves interaction and being given a chance to help others create.

Part deux of our chat with Tony Sarkees, an attorney in Chicago who loves making things at the local hackerspace as much as he loves gaming. We play This is Your Life, compete in a quiz about C64 games and talk gadgets.

• Tony is the ultimate mobile consumer, switching his SIM card between Android & iPhone for many years. It all started with jailbreaking an iPod Touch.
• Chris remembers Tony’s many tweets about his Chumby, a cuddly, user-friendly device that our guest believes has no counterpart.
• Not too long ago, our guest’s friend Newman passed away and Chris is touched by Tony’s tribute to his cat.

Quiz Time

• The Commodore 64 game Agent USA.
• The Lucas Arts games company used a programming language called SCUMM.
• SCUMM stands for Scripting Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion.
• Another terrific Lucas Arts game was Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders.

Once again our guest defeats Paul!

• Paul says, “Yo dawg, do you remember Napster?” We discuss piracy and the maker community.
• Chris suggests the Stuff You Should Know Podcast about TV ratings.
• Paul suggests checking out the C.G.P. Grey youtube channel, because learning!
• Chris’ next project is rebuilding his subwoofer. Did you know you could build your own and probably get something better and less expensive? Everything you need is at Parts Express.
• Paul is hoping to build a gnarly workspace in his office for all this podcast gear. He’s learning Google Sketch Up to create something.
• He’s starting the center of the sweet desktop with a rackmount equipment stand.
• Chris shares a very cool site with open designs, OpenDesk.
• Thanks to all the listeners who bought one of our Tees! Unfortunately, they are no longer for sale, but you can always request a reprint.

You can find Tony on twitter, his site, the electro bureau or grab some of the things he makes at his shop.

Today’s cartoon goodbye is cool beans. Later, Sausages.

On this episode we chat with attorney, gamer and maker Tony Sarkees. He teaches us that copyright laws were actually created to “propagate ideas, encourage creation of new works, inform the public and build a common culture.”

• Tony is modding his old school Game Boy. Dissected, Painted and let’s get biverted.
• We talk about the now defunct PMOG/Nethernet and Tony suggests reading Justin’s essay on building online social games.
• We all bond over the gorgeous gem known as Saugatuck, MI.
• Pumping Station: One is the Chicago area hackerspace of choice for Tony when he’s making and creating.
• Tony taught himself CSS to publish a zine online where people can share how gaming and games have affected their lives. Be sure to check out the excellent design and the memoirs featured on electro bureau.
• Parallax scrolling was the bread & butter of the startup, Scrollkit who got into some legal trouble for showing people how to use their service to create pages like Snow Fall.
• Chris was looking at about.me and flavors.me in order to build a personal landing page. Tony convinces him otherwise.
• Our guest recommends hosting a website using Google App Engine instead of purchasing hosting. Let me Duck Duck Go That for you.
• Tony gives us a lecture on copyright because “it touches every single one of us.” Pay attention! There’s a quiz later. Copyright is actually much more fascinating than you might think.
• The Statute of Anne was the first copyright law.
• Moral rights allow creators to control the association of their work in the EU or Canada. That is, “”you can’t use my song in your commercial for your diabolical political party commercials.”“
• Fan fiction, fan sites and fan art are all actually copyright infringement.
• Tony talks Android: Netrunner, a Living Card Game by Fantasy Flight Games. Unfortunately, one of the best communities for the game was shut down.
• Disney has gone from sue happy to relaxed when it comes to copyright infringement.
• Our guest doesn’t purchase items from Sony because of their rootkit scandal.
• All of us are confused by the #gamergate situation.
• Ridiculous Fishing is a game for iOS suggested by our guest.
• Paul & Tony really like Threes! which has been cloned many, many times because you can’t copyright game rules and mechanics.

You can find Tony on twitter, his site, the electro bureau or grab some of the things he makes at his shop.

Whovian In-law? This Is An Example of Why I Don’t Listen To The Podcast?

Paul & Chris continue to talk to the Wonder Woman of education and technology, Colette Mondor. They switch gears from teaching & technology to movies, books and of course Doctor Who.

• Chris & guest Colette review The Giver. Hooray for stock video?
• Paul reviews Guardians of the Galaxy.
• Colette shares that she’s not as big of a fan of The Last Starfighter as Chris is.
• Chris wants a Cray Super Computer for his entryway. Colette says, “No.”
• Colette decided to do a “40 at 40” list this summer.
• Our guest reviews the books Night by Elie Wiesel and We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson.
• Time to talk about the new Doctor Who, Peter Capaldi. Colette is leery, Paul is cautiously excited and Chris is Chris.
• Speaking of grumpydays Chris, he thinks Martha Jones married 2 guys creating a continuity error, but it turns out she only got engaged to Tom Milligan. Guess he wasn’t timey wimey enough for?
• Chris decides to watch Dusk ‘til Dawn, the TV series. He says it suffers from ridiculous back-story-itus.
• Let’s talk tech, Colette is using a Jawbone Up24 fitness tracker.
• Chris is excited about the new arkOS update with the File Sync plugin based on syncthing.
• arkOS will soon be available on a VPS through a new service called Skylark.
• Thanks again to Colette for joining us on the show. You can find her on twitter, G+ (or G+ ) and instagram.
• And remember, Don’t be ashamed! Tell someone if you’ve been touched in a bad way.