120: These Guns Keep The Peace

The Frequency

WARNING: MAD MEN SEASON 1 SPOILERS. Dan and Haddie discuss Google Fiber, Justin Bieber, Facebook Home's low ratings and equally disappointing ads, how to make those ads better, the launch of Handsome.pro, and more.

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• More Than 150 Wounded By Boston Marathon Blasts, 8-Year-Old Among Dead: Gothamist
  
• Google Fiber coming to Austin by mid-2014 | The Verge
  Google has officially announced the next city that will get its super-fast Fiber internet: Austin, Texas. "We are very glad that Google has been convinced to bring Fiber to Austin," said Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell. "Google Fiber will change how we live and how we work in ways we don't even know about yet." Austin will become the second US city, following Kansas City, to receive Google's groundbreaking internet service.
• Justin Bieber Hopes Girl Killed by Nazis Would Have Liked His Music
  After a highly publicized appearance at Amsterdam's Anne Frank House, the site where Frank and her family hid from the Nazis from 1942 to 1944, an "inspired" Justin Bieber left some deep thoughts in the museum's guestbook. "Anne was a great girl," he wrote. "Hopefully she would have been a belieber."
• Facebook Home Rated Just 1 Star by 44% of Google Play Reviewers
  It looks like Android users aren't happy about Facebook Home moving into their Android phones. A day after launch, an astounding 44% of users who have reviewed the app on Google Play gave it just one star, with a mere 19.4% of users opting to give Home a 5-star rating. All that equates to an average 2.5-star rating in Google Play, not exactly an ideal first-day showing.
• Screaming Goat Featured in Funniest Facebook Home Ad Yet [VIDEO]
  If you hate Facebook Home, watch a goat scream at Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook launched its third Facebook Home ad late Friday, the latest in a series of ads with questionable messages, including Facebook users' apparent inability to effectively remove themselves from their virtual experiences in order to have actual experiences.
• Pebble smart watch SDK is now ready for creative third parties | Ars Technica
  The software development kit (SDK) for the Pebble smart watch is now available for download. The makers of the smart watch promised that the SDK would go public once the watches began shipping (check out our recent hands-on with the timepiece/app hub), and Pebble has now made the SDK and all related documentation available to those interested in developing for the Bluetooth-enabled device.
• From A to B
  What happens when you send something by mail? What happens in between you sending it off and someone else receiving it? What people and processes are involved and how many steps does it take? Ruben van der Vleuten sends a camera through the mail disguised as a package to track the parcel's journey through his country's mail system.
• Mod Men, Photo Series Exploring How the World of ‘Mad Men’ Would Look in the 21st Century
  “Mod Men” is a photo series created by designers at Shutterstock that explores how the world of Mad Men would look in the 21st century. Retro items that characters use in the AMC television series are compared to their modern day equivalent. You can view the full collection of images at The Shutterstock Blog.
• The Dude and the Zen Master - Boing Boing
  Did the rug really tie the room together?Was Donny out of his element?If you love The Big Lebowski you'll probably enjoy The Dude and the Zen Master, a collaboration between Jeff Bridges and Zen teacher Bernie Glassman.
• Tech Time Warp of the Week: Rad Ads for Ginormous '80s Cellphones | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
  The cellphone turned 40 last week. And it's a remarkable achievement. Really. It is. Even its inventor, Martin Cooper, thought that it would never beat out the landline. It may be hard to remember this in 2013, but when the cellphone was first introduced, it was a little bit like Google Glass -- a cutting-edge device that let you do amazing things but also immediately branded you as a goofball to the vast throngs of the uninitiated. In the '80s, cellphones weren't small devices. They were ginormous.
• A video tour of television's fake parallel internet, from RoundSearch to YouFace | The Verge
  There's a long tradition of using "prop" domains in films, whether to avoid liability or better control the content. For every Google, there's a Searchsies.com
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