As an unwashed horde of jarring, neon-shattered Las Vegan vignettes wanes from the tides of our memories, life at the intersection of technology and culture slams us with another dissertation-inducing week of progress, sparring, and confusion. All we can do is sit here and Vergecast about it.

• 00:06:09 - Apple's January 2012 education event: reinventing the textbook
• 00:36:05 - Why The Verge and Vox Media are opposed to SOPA

00:55:35 - MegaUpload's legal battle with labels and the DOJ: the full story