Sigh

It’s amazing, how dependent we get on our electronic stuff. I keep reaching for my Kindle Fire, and it’s not there! LOL

Bleg

UPDATE: Thanks for the help, everyone. I just paid it.

I just got my yearly web hosting bill for the site, due immediately and I’m really, really short this month, due to several unexpected expenses. If you can throw a few bucks in the till to keep the lights on, it would be very much appreciated. Thanks for any help!

Virtually Speaking Thursday

Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd 6p PT 9p ET

David Brin explores transparency, security, privacy & openness in The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom? (Winner of the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association). Jay Ackroyd hosts.

Listen live or later: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/virtuallyspeaking/2013/06/07/david-brin-virtually-speaking-w-jay-ackroyd

Links http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/fftransparent_pr.html

Virtually Speaking Thursday

Marcy Wheeler: Obama, Natl Security & Counterterrorism

Thus May 30 6p PT/9p ET –

Marcy Wheeler discusses the implications of Obama’s May 2013 national security speech in which he outlined a new direction for the country’s national security and counterterrorism efforts, from drone strikes in Pakistan to the prison at Guantánamo Bay. Jay Ackroyd hosts.

Follow @emptywheel @JayAckroyd

Listen live or later: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/virtuallyspeaking/2013/05/31/marcy-wheeler-virtually-speaking-with-jay-ackroyd

Virtually Speaking Sunday

From the Virtually Speaking Media Panel: Dave Johnson & Stuart Zechman – discuss developments of the week; countering the narratives of the legacy media. Informed, lively and informal.

This week: the quandary of corporate income tax, TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership), and the principles that inform liberal policy with respect to corporations.  Plus political satire from Culture of Truth.

Listen live or laterhttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/virtuallyspeaking/2013/05/27/dave-johnson-stuart-zechman-virtually-speaking-sundays

Follow @dcjohnson @Stuart_Zechman

More at http://virtuallyspeaking.us/virtually-speaking-sundays/2013/5/21/dave-johnson-stuart-zechman-vs-sundays

Virtually Speaking Science

Wed May 22 – 3p PT|6p ET | Virtually Speaking Science

Tom Levenson talks with author and science historian Naomi Oreskes, about extreme weather: the 5/20 Oklahoma tornado and the social costs of climate change, carbon policy and inaction.

Naomi co-authored – with Erik M. Conway – “Merchants of Doubt, How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco to Global Warming,” about Big Tobacco, climate science, the establishment of scientific consensus and the role and character of scientific dissent.

Follow @TomLevenson

coming up:

6/5 –   5p slt – Alan Boyle hosts Seth Shostak
6/12 – 5p slt – Jennifer Ouellette hosts Caleb Scharf