Control Structure #110: They Told Me I Could Fly

Control Structure

After talking about cicadas and The Raphael Parable, Andrew and Steve talk about putting things on Github, Raspberry!, Firefox, Microsoft, ransomware, and headphones.

Banter

• Periodical cicadas – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Noise of periodical 17-year cicadas – YouTube
• Dog-day cicada – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Delaware Annual Cicadas – YouTube
• Introducing: The Raphael Parable (Seriously! New level download!) :: The Stanley Parable General Discussions

Feats

• GitHub – theandrewbailey/t-time: GTFS (public transit feed) to HTML time table processor
• Creating Project Pages manually – User Documentation
• GitHub – theandrewbailey/OfflineBible
• KJV, Genesis 1

News

• Raspberry Pi maker to sell company for £615m to Swiss Dätwyler | Technology | The Guardian
• Nexus Special #46: WWDC 2016 › The Nexus
• Firefox 48 Beta, Release, and E10S | Asa Dotzler
• StatCounter Global Stats – Browser, OS, Search Engine including Mobile Usage Share
• Microsoft Removes 260-Character Path Length Limit in Windows 10 Redstone
• Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn – The Fire Hose
• What’s on TV? Ransomware | On the Wire

Podcast Feedback

• Urban Dictionary: headphones

Don’t forget

• International Backup Awareness Day

Music

• Bits of Music from The Stanley Parable | The Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra
• Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
• little things | C418
• instrumentals | tryad

There is no accompanying The Fringe episode for this Control Structure episode. To recreate it, play some of The Raphael Parable, followed by analysis of the javascript in Andrew’s offline Bible.

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