Tower of Technobabble

Tower of Technobabble


Three Fingers of Buffalo - S03E03 Tower of Technobabble

January 22, 2013

We examine sending your job overseas, finding true love (or something) for the low, low price of three dollars, translating the untranslatable, and looking at the new world order (or conspiracy of your choice) threat lurking in your billfold — even as we speak.


 


Show Notes:


 


US employee 'outsourced job to China': http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21043693


 


Love Is Blind and Costs $3 at OKCupid: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-01-15/love-is-blind-and-costs-3-at-okcupid


 


Words and emotions with no English translation:


http://uniquelang.peiyinglin.net/01untranslatable.html and http://theweek.com/article/index/238751/14-wonderful-words-with-no-english-equivalent


 


Consider the dollar!


http://www.wheresgeorge.com/


and


http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--j22zNY0S0Y/UHsSxPQPslI/AAAAAAAACpU/OsWVEO22RJU/s1600/ModernBillFr&Back-SM.jpg (if you don't have a dollar on you)


 


Who (whom?) does the government worship! Who? WHOM?


 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3X6Ctze0oI