Show Notes, April 21st, 2014

Lena talks about

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27100773

 

Martin joins and talks about

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/at-clearly-innovative-developers-are-hired-with-little-practice-and-a-lot-of-passion/2014/04/18/310b3f72-c58a-11e3-bf7a-be01a9b69cf1_story.html

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/04/17/general-assembly-teams-google-microsoft-others-launch-new-tech-scholarship-program/

and

http://www.clearlyinnovative.com/

 

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Brothatech joins the conversation

http://brothatech.com/

He talks about talking about technology, and being a digital lifestyle consultant.

 

@Blackloverules or @theymetonline

http://theymetonline.com/

 

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/21/powdered-alcohol-palcohol_n_5185944.html

 

 

 

 

Lena may talk later about the joy of linux on an old computer, and the fun of testing a live booting USB distro.

Crunchbang or #! a fun linux to put on an old computer

potential DIY projects

 

 

 

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