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Zak and Liz discuss the Dairy-Free lifestyle, Liz’s fear of loosing data, and what Big-Milk is doing to market to Gen-Z.

Recorded on July 3, 2022

Dairy-Free Mac & Cheese – Daiya

• Wicked Kitchen
• Daiya Slices
• Original Creole Seasoning – Tony Chachere’s

Media

• Top Soccer Shootout Ever With Scott Sterling – Studio C on YouTube
• Top Soccer Shootout Ever With Scott Sterling – Archived on the Internet Archive
• The Dollop Podcast
• The Offline Internet Archive – Internet Archive blog
• Archivebox.io
• Against SQL – Scattered Thoughts

Life Streams

• iOS File System Recommendations – Apple Developer Documentation
• Desktop Metaphor – Wikipedia
• Lifestreams homepage – Yale.edu
• Yahoo Pipes – Wikipedia
• Lifestreams – Wired
• Reconcilable Differences #169 – Relay.fm
• Zettelkasten – Wikipedia
• The Murderbot Diaries – Martha Wells
• Apache Kafka Explainer Comic
• iBeacon – Apple Developers
• Feed (novel)
• Fall; or, Dodge in Hell

Marketing Milk to Gen Z

• Gen Z and Driving Dairy Demand – Martha Kemper on LinkedIn
• Cow Methane Capture – AG Daily
• Undeniably Dairy sponsoring Version1 – Midwest Dairy
• Generation Z: Uncovering Dairy Insights – Oregon Dairy Industry
• Rick Diggins’ Monologue (from Dimension 20 Tiny Heist) – HippoMii on YouTube

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Zak and Liz try out other pharmacies, discuss the best gay chatbot that 2022 can offer, and check-in about yearly themes.

Recorded on Jun 18, 2022

Containers

• MicroK8s

Trevor Project

• Walgreens Rainbow Logo (as of June 2023) – Facebook
• What does “Queer” mean? – them magazine
• One neurodivergent critique on Autism Speaks – Autistic Heroes
• Autism Speaks high executive compensation – Disability Scoop (2009)
• Allism – Zefram on fysh.org
• The Trevor Project’s AI use for training – Protocol (via the Wayback Machine)
• Google engineer says Lamda AI may have its own feelings – BBC
• Three Laws of Robotics – Wikipedia
• Interview with GPT-3 as a squirrel – AI Weirdness
• PogChamp – Wikipedia
• Care With Pride – via the Internet Archive
• OGX Care with Pride collection – GCI Magazine

Themes

• Minidump Stackwalk crate – docs.rs
• Remarkable tablet

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Zak and Liz talk about Zak’s Year of Being a Better Friend, how he plans to be the latest-greatest Zak next year, and why Liz is NOT friends with Walgreens.

Recorded on Jun 12, 2022

Zak’s New Theme

• Your Theme – CGP Grey on YouTube
• Big Friendship
• Call Your Girlfriend

Walgreens Pharmacy Woes

• Economies of Scale – Wikipedia
• CPOE – Wikipedia
• Alarm Fatigue – Wikipedia
• Therac-25 – Wikipedia
• Calvinball – TV Tropes
• Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names – Kalzumeus
• Express Scripts

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Zak and Liz want the aliens to kiss, the milks to duke it out for glory, and the error messages to say what they mean.

Recorded on May 8, 2022

GMO Free Chicken – Sentient Media

Project Hail Mary

• Andy Weir
• The Martian
• Artemis
• Randomize
• The Frontiers Saga
• The Silmarillion
• Dwarf Fortress – Wikipedia
• Project Hail Mary Fanfiction – AO3
• Seveneves

Milk Alternative Bracket

• Hey Riddle Riddle
• Oat Cinnamon Swirl – Nutpods
• Pocket Sand – Know Your Meme
• BattleBots – Wikipedia

 

Russian Doll – Wikipedia

Zak Programming

• WSDL – Wikipedia
• REST
• Microsoft Dynamics
• X++
• ekuber (the Rust errors guy) – hachyderm
• Function overloading – Wikipedia

Museum of Endangered Sounds

Causative Verbs – Wikipedia

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Zak and Liz talk about mapping tools and displays of geograpic data. They also talk about the “gay pirate show”. Something for everyone this episode.

Recorded on April 24, 2022

More Maps Manifesto

• Zak’s Tweet about Black Restaurant Week – Twitter
• What is GIS? – Esri
• Milwaukee Spec Hydrants
• Edward Tufte
• Milwaukee Food Deserts and Grocery Stores– Fox 6
• Urban Milwaukee
• On Milwaukee
• Zak’s postcard map – ArcGIS
• OpenBenches
• Wikitravel
• Atlas Obscura
• GeoJSON
• Content Management System– Wikipedia
• Semantic Web – Wikipedia

Our Flag Means Death – IMDB

 

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Zak and Liz talk about weighing a W boson (with “bonus content” for those who participated in the Worrying Bugs Book Club). Liz’s new old has bluetooth audio… if you’re willing to work for it. The 2016 Macbook Pro only has USB-C ports and drivers are a nightmare.

Recorded on April 10, 2022

Newly Measured Particles – Quanta

• Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! – Bookshop.org
• Elden Ring Messages – Fextralife
• The 7 Percent Solution – Section from Surely You’re Joking, on okstate.edu
• Feynman diagram – Wikipedia
• Schrödinger’s cat – Wikipedia
• Standard Model – CERN
• ORM – freeCodeCamp
• Homomorphic Encryption – Wikipedia

Bluetooth

• Why talking on the phone while driving is dangerous – CityMonitor
• Proximity Effect
• Backprop – Wikipedia
• Genie – Stanford

Ethernet

• DriverKit

 

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Zak and Liz talk about Liz just wanting the all the levels of software to get along and Zak’s recent travel experience.

Recorded on April 3, 2022

Whale Fall – Wikipedia

• I Contain Multitudes – Harper Collins
• Chemosynthesis vs Photosynthesis – NOAA
• Osedax mucofloris – Wikipedia
• The Universe is Weird – Hank Green on YouTube
• “The meaning of life is to give life meaning.” – Victor E. Frankl

Logitech’s Bad Software

• Logitech MX Master Series
• Better Touch Tool
• Logitech G Hub
• RansomWhere
• Richard Stallman – Wikipedia
• The Printer Story – gnu.org
• OBS Studio
• Kensington Trackball Mouse
• Open Source Trackball Mouse – Ploopy

Train Review

• Amtrak
• Hiawatha Route – Amtrak
• California Zephyr – Amtrak
• Amtrak Not Owning Their Tracks – Atlas Obscura
• Snowpiercer (film) – Wikipedia

PSA Source – The Atlantic

 

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Zak and Liz are taking the fortnight off.

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Zak and Liz talk about E15 gasoline; it’s like E10 gasoline, but 5 more.

Zak tells us what he has found out about the Home Front Energy Independence Act. There is a billion dollars on the line to accomplish 4 things (and the 4th thing is “Other”).

Recorded on March 12, 2022

Home Front Energy Independence Act
– Russia Invades Ukraine, one year on – Associated Press
– The Cold War – Wikipedia
– American Car Dependency – Bloomberg CityLab
– Redlining – Wikipedia
– American Sprawl and the Cold War – Treehugger
– Tear down this wall! – Wikipedia
– Is Modern Russia Communist? – Russia Beyond
– Oil crisis – Wikipedia
– Stop de Kindermoord – Environmental Justice Atlas
– Denmark responded to 1973 oil crisis by reducing car-dependency – StreetsBlog Chicago
– The Tweet Liz Was Talking About
– Inelastic Demand – Investopedia
– They Don’t Represent Us – IndieBound
– Senator Baldwin Supports Biofuel Bill, Blames Putin for Fuel Prices
– E15 – US Department of Energy
– Home Front Energy Independence Act – congress.gov
– Does Git actually keep track of changes? – stackoverflow
– Overton Window – Wikipedia
– Freight Rail Efficiency – BNSF

 

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Zak and Liz talk about what Liz’s vision of a better Internet looks like. She’s got some radical ideas like “don’t make your website worse for the sake of profit”, “wow, online advertising is pretty intrusive these days”, and “putting existing infrastructure on a blockchain is strictly worse.”

Recorded on Feb 28, 2022

Screaming
– How to Scream – WikiHow
– How to bellow like a koala

Web 3.manifest0
– Tim O’Reilley Web 2.0
– Web 2.0 – Wikipedia
– Web Application – Wikipedia
– Gamergaters and Geek Masculinity – SagePub
– Big O Notation – Wikipedia
– Accessibility – W3C
– Is web accessibility as big of a deal as it seems? – Reddit
– As a designer, if accessibility is killing design for brands that exert fun. Would you move on? – Reddit
– Repeat Stuff by Bo Burnham – Genius.com
– 3 Ways We Fail to Take Accessibility Seriously – Reddit
– Polymer a11y – Web Components
– Accessibility for Everyone – A Book Apart
– SOLID – Wikipedia
– Markdown – Wikipedia
– <video> tag – mdn
– The Big Short – Wikipedia
– ZeldaDungeon.net

 

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