#744 Keep calm and Smile on

This week on The Bugcast: we discuss Amazon’s decision to drop their AmazonSmile programme, and play eight tracks of fantastic Creative Commons music.

Songs played

Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking

Topics

About Amazon: <a href="https://www.aboutamazon.co.uk/news/company-news/amazon-closing-amazonsmile-to-focus-its-philanthropic-giving-to-programmes-with-greater-impact">Amazon closing AmazonSmile to focus its philanthropic giving to programmes with greater impact</a>

Upcoming events

<strong>It’s time to start submitting tracks for the Listeners Choice, episode 750, in March.</strong><br />
Simply <a href="https://thebugcast.org/choice/">submit your favourite tracks</a> played between episodes 703 and 749!

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Announcements

  • Please leave us feedback on the music or any of the topics that we’ve discussed.
  • The next show will be episode 745, which will be streamed live on Friday 27 January 2023 at 21:30-ish UK time (GMT/UTC).
  • Join us during the week on our Telegram group chat – click here to join
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Special thanks go to

Our <a href="https://thebugcast.org/support">supporters</a>!<br />
The artists for allowing us to play their music.<br />
Everyone who joined us in the chat room for the live broadcast of this show.<br />
<a href="https://archive.org/">Internet Archive</a> for hosting the media files<br />
<a href="https://euterpiaradio.ch/">Euterpia Radio</a> for the use of their Shoutcast server

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#743 Hi Ho Silver Lining

This week on The Bugcast: Lisa-Marie, Jeff, Harry, and eight tracks of fantastic Creative Commons music.

Songs played

Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking

Topics

BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64255117">Lisa Marie Presley, singer and daughter of Elvis, dies aged 54</a><br />
The Guardian: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/jan/12/legendary-rock-guitarist-jeff-beck-dies-aged-78">Legendary rock guitarist Jeff Beck dies aged 78</a><br />
The Guardian: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/13/prince-harry-spare-book-readers-react">Reactions to Prince Harry’s Spare</a><br />
<a href="https://railwaychildren.enthuse.com/pf/caroline-lee-22190">Big Rail Sleepout 2023</a><br />
The Register: <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/13/happy_friday_13th_microsoft_defender/">Friday the 13th: Windows Defender screws up</a>

Upcoming events

<strong>It’s time to start submitting tracks for the Listeners Choice, episode 750, in March.</strong><br />
Simply <a href="https://thebugcast.org/choice/">submit your favourite tracks</a> played between episodes 703 and 749!

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Announcements

  • Please leave us feedback on the music or any of the topics that we’ve discussed.
  • The next show will be episode 744, which will be streamed live on Friday 20 January 2023 at 21:30-ish UK time (GMT/UTC).
  • Join us during the week on our Telegram group chat – click here to join
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Special thanks go to

Our <a href="https://thebugcast.org/support">supporters</a>!<br />
The artists for allowing us to play their music.<br />
Everyone who joined us in the chat room for the live broadcast of this show.<br />
<a href="https://archive.org/">Internet Archive</a> for hosting the media files<br />
<a href="https://euterpiaradio.ch/">Euterpia Radio</a> for the use of their Shoutcast server

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Choose to live

Choose to live
Choose to live

Dave and Yannick are back, to review Choose to live, the 3rd episode of the 4th season of Star Trek Discovery.

The review featured in this episode is a modified version of the work done by the team at Memory Alpha and is released under a CC-BY-NC licence, which means you can use it, transform it, and redistribute it as long as you give appropriate credits to us and Memory Alpha, and you don’t use it for commercial business.

The rest of this episode is released under a CC-BY-SA licence, which means you can do pretty much whatever you want with it, as long as you credit us as the original authors, and if you publish something based on this episode, you have to release it under the same license.

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#742 Don’t Slap Pandas

This week on The Bugcast: Caroline is back talking about work and art materials, and we play eight tracks of fantastic Creative Commons music.

Songs played

Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking

Topics

<strong>Happy New Year!</strong><br />
Thanks to Kevie for stepping in last week!

Caroline’s work update<br />
Soft Pastels Annual Audit<br />
Dave’s antenna tragedy

Upcoming events

<strong>It’s time to start submitting tracks for the Listeners Choice, episode 750, in March.</strong><br />
Simply <a href="https://thebugcast.org/choice/">submit your favourite tracks</a> played between episodes 703 and 749!

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Announcements

  • Please leave us feedback on the music or any of the topics that we’ve discussed.
  • The next show will be episode 743, which will be streamed live on Friday 6 January 2023 at 21:30-ish UK time (GMT/UTC).
  • Join us during the week on our Telegram group chat – click here to join
    (you’ll need a Telegram account)

Special thanks go to

Our <a href="https://thebugcast.org/support">supporters</a>!<br />
The artists for allowing us to play their music.<br />
Everyone who joined us in the chat room for the live broadcast of this show.<br />
<a href="https://archive.org/">Internet Archive</a> for hosting the media files<br />
<a href="https://euterpiaradio.ch/">Euterpia Radio</a> for the use of their Shoutcast server

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#741 Kevoline

This week on The Bugcast: Kevie sits in for Caroline, we talk podcasting and Creative Commons, and and play six tracks of fantastic Creative Commons music from ccMixter.

Songs played

  • Zep Herme – Bring It Back (feat. CrazyLittleAsian) – from Finland – source
  • SleeperSpaceBorn – Here To Stay (feat. CrazyLittleAsian) – from PA – source
  • Admiral Bob – The Missing (feat. Javolenus) – from Ottawa, ON – source
  • ScOmBer – Face In The Crowd (feat. Copperhead, Sassygal, Scomberella) – from Sydney, Australia – source
  • Snowflake – Happy New Year Darling (feat. airtone, Speck) – from San Diego, CA – source
  • Alex Beroza – Come Home (feat. spinningmerkaba) – from Antwerp, Belgium – source

Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking

Topics

Caroline is off ill this week, so Kevie has graciously volunteered to step into her shoes<br />
Kevie’s projects and podcasts<br />
Creative Commons music sources

Kevie on the Fediverse: <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/@kevie">@kevie@mastodon.me.uk</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.beer/@kevie">@kevie@mastodon.beer</a><br />
YouTube: <a href="https://youtu.be/z-i6mKDs7s0">Rob (from the internet) talks about beer: S03E13 Kevie Macphail</a><br />
<a href="https://tuxjam.otherside.network/podcrawl">Podcrawl Jitsi</a>

Upcoming events

<strong>It’s time to start submitting tracks for the Listeners Choice, episode 750, in March.</strong><br />
Simply <a href="https://thebugcast.org/choice/">submit your favourite tracks</a> played between episodes 703 and 749!

Podcasts mentioned

<a href="https://tuxjam.otherside.network/">TuxJam</a> – mixing Creative Commons music with Open Source goodness<br />
<a href="https://ccjam.otherside.network/">CCJam</a> – community music podcast, turn up the volume!

Announcements

  • Please leave us feedback on the music or any of the topics that we’ve discussed.
  • The next show will be episode 742, which will be streamed live on Friday 6 January 2023 at 21:30-ish UK time (GMT/UTC).
  • Join us during the week on our Telegram group chat – click here to join
    (you’ll need a Telegram account)

Special thanks go to

Our <a href="https://thebugcast.org/support">supporters</a>!<br />
The artists for allowing us to play their music.<br />
Everyone who joined us in the chat room for the live broadcast of this show.<br />
<a href="https://archive.org/">Internet Archive</a> for hosting the media files<br />
<a href="https://euterpiaradio.ch/">Euterpia Radio</a> for the use of their Shoutcast server

The Bugcast is a proud founder member of the Other Side Podcast Network

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#740 Too many cookies

This week on The Bugcast Christmas special: wedding anniversary, Podcrawl, and nine(!) tracks of fantastic Creative Commons and independent music.

Songs played

Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking

Topics

Dave and Caroline’s anniversary last week<br />
Podcrawl last Saturday (catch the first <a href="https://tuxjam.otherside.network/">TuxJam</a> of 2023 for a review)

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  • Please leave us feedback on the music or any of the topics that we’ve discussed.
  • The next show will be episode 741, which will be streamed live on Friday 30 December 2022 at 21:30-ish UK time (GMT/UTC).
  • Join us during the week on our Telegram group chat – click here to join
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Special thanks go to

Our <a href="https://thebugcast.org/support">supporters</a>!<br />
The artists for allowing us to play their music.<br />
Everyone who joined us in the chat room for the live broadcast of this show.<br />
<a href="https://archive.org/">Internet Archive</a> for hosting the media files<br />
<a href="https://euterpiaradio.ch/">Euterpia Radio</a> for the use of their Shoutcast server

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TuxJam 100 – Alpine Assault

TuxJam logo depicting Tux on a mixer desk with a crowd in the background.

In the centenary episode of TuxJam, Andrew, Dave and Kevie take a look at some (poorly linked) festive themed items, including a review of build-it-yourself distro Alpine Linux and Simple Contacts (because we all need to dig out these addresses to send the Christmas cards to). We thank all of our listeners for putting up with us for 100 shows, as we go into the new year we raise a glass to the next 100.

This along with the usual mix of ccmusic round off this festive and milestone episode:

TuxJam 99 – Gifts For Geeks 2022

Stocking Filler (under £10)

tuxjam image

Low (£10-25)

Mid(£25-100)

High(£100+)

Wow, you really love them (silly money)!!!

CCMusic

#739 Strike, strike, strike!

This week on The Bugcast: Christmas parties, strikes, and Harry & Meghan, plus play 8 tracks of fantastic Creative Commons and independent music.

Songs played

Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking

Topics

Thanks to Yannick for stepping in last week<br />
Christmas Party Fun<br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62134314">Striking in the UK</a><br />
The Guardian: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/09/harry-meghan-netflix-trailer-hints-at-attack-on-royal-family-next-week">Harry and Meghan Documentary – Part 1</a><br />
<a href="https://teaearlgreyhot.org/">Tea, Earl Grey, Hot!</a> is returning

Upcoming events

<a href="https://tuxjam.otherside.network/podcrawl">Podcrawl Jitsi Winter 2022</a> – Saturday 17 December 2022 from 18:00 UK time

Podcasts mentioned

<a>Tea, Earl Grey, Hot!</a>

Announcements

  • Please leave us feedback on the music or any of the topics that we’ve discussed.
  • There will be no show next week!
  • The next show will be episode 740, our Christmas show, which will be streamed live on Friday 23 December 2022 at 21:30-ish UK time (GMT/UTC).
  • Join us during the week on our Telegram group chat – click here to join
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Special thanks go to

Our <a href="https://thebugcast.org/support">supporters</a>!<br />
The artists for allowing us to play their music.<br />
Everyone who joined us in the chat room for the live broadcast of this show.<br />
<a href="https://archive.org/">Internet Archive</a> for hosting the media files<br />
<a href="https://euterpiaradio.ch/">Euterpia Radio</a> for the use of their Shoutcast server

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