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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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Zak and Liz talk about their Lists™.
Zak puts his body on the line to see if the vegan mac and cheese can pass as a comfort food.
Liz finds a suspicious infographic, so some research and incredulous journalism is done.
Liz shares her thoughts about the NFT video essay that Zak assigned as homework. They’re pretty sure that they’re not shouting at clouds, but time will tell.
Zak used Shortcuts automation to mimic focus modes on his Apple Watch. Liz suggests that a gayer time of day should have a gayer watch face.
Zak reviews the Tofutti Better Than Sour Cream and the Jenny’s Tofu Soy Milk. He also tells us about the Sprout Task Force, which Jenny’s Tofu is a part of.
Lastly, Zak fell into a rabbit hole about food certifications including kosher and vegan.
Recorded on February 13, 2022
Doctor
– CPAP on a Plane – TSA
Dairy-free Omnibus Part A
– Wicked Kitchen
– Woody Harrelson invests in Wicked Kitchen
– Seitan – Wikipedia
– Upton’s Naturals
– Be’f – Gardein
– Conagra Brands
– Meatless Mondays
– Maintenance Phase
– Meat Eater’s Guide – Environmental Working Group
– Non-GHG effects of car use – EcoWatch
– M’rry Me – Gardein Corporate Instagram
– Flexitarianism – Wikipedia
Line Goes Up
– The Website Obesity Crisis – Idle Words
– The Average Webpage Is Now the Size of the Original Doom – Wired
– Insular Dwarfism – Wikipedia
– The DAO – Wikipedia
– Snowcrash
– Neal Stephenson on Meta – Axios
– Project Loon
– PreShow Eye Tracking – Futurism
– Mindustry
– The Factorio Video – Folding Ideas on YouTube
Apple Watch Trick
– Details on the California Watch Face – Arun.is
Dairy Free Omnibus Part B
– DAIRY PRIDE Act
– Better Than Sour Cream – Tofutti
– Jenny’s Tofu Products
Hechshers
– Directory of Kosher Certifying Agencies – Chicago Rabbinical Council
– Blue Ribbon Kosher – Chicago Rabbinical Council
– Ⓥ – Vegan Symbols
– Vegan Trademark – Vegan Society
– Certification – Vegan.org
– Vegan Flag
– Israeli Vegan Domino’s – NPR
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Zak and Liz talk about re-experiencing movie theaters, Zak explains how Docker works which is even nerdier than using Docker, Liz explains why she loves a Minecraft mod-pack which is even nerdier than playing it, and Zak untangles yarn of truth regarding some farmland that is owned by people who wear very expensive suits.
Recorded on January 30, 2022
Theater
– Marvel Cinematic Universe – Wikipedia
Docker
– Dockerfile
– Docker Hub
– Docker Desktop
– How is a container different than an image? – Atlassian
Vault Hunters
– Vault Hunters – Iskall85 on YouTube
– Mobs – Minecraft Wiki
Bill Gates Farming
– John Deere Right to Repair – Politico
– Bill Gates is About to Change the Way America Farms – Agriculture.com
– The Tweet Zak was Talking About – Twitter
– The Bureaucratic Explanation – U.S. Mission Geneva
– How Would a Wealth Tax Work? – NPR
– Protect Your Assets From President Warren – Forbes
– Farm Like A Billionaire – Forbes
– How A Carbon Price Could Gut Animal Agriculture Without Taxing Farmers And Ranchers – Forbes
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Zak and Liz talk about the latest Dairy Free Milk Alternative, Zak tried the Tofutti imitation cream cheese that Liz really liked, and Liz just got back from a road trip and there was a lot to think about, okay?
Recorded on January 21, 2022
(Not) Milk
– NotMilk
– Nextmilk – Silk
(Not) Dairy
– Tofutti
– Kite Hill Cream Cheese
– How is Cheese Made? – US Dairy
– Zak’s Pickle Kit
– Vom Fass
– Brain Gut Connection – Johns Hopkins
– Mind the Gut exhibit in Copenhagen’s Medical Museion – Labiotech.edu
This would not happen if the crab were on the torus. – Wikipedia
Liz’s Trip
– The Murderbot Diaries Series
– These Violent Delights – IndieBound
– Hey Riddle Riddle
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Zak and Liz try to figure out how their brains work by reciting the alphabet a few times.
Zak gives a brief history of computer handwriting recognition and tells us his opinions on the ReMarkable Tablet.
Want to meditate but can’t stop thinking about all the stuff you have to do? Zak has just the technique for you.
Zak has a new food goal for this year. The initialism is: ALDAPAIGTBVIAWDIDEAKTOISICHMTT-IGTBALAODBIBIAI year.
Recorded on Jan 2, 2022
Whisper of the Heart – Wikipedia
The Alphabet
– Alphabet in alphabetical order – @gray on Twitter
– H – BBC
– Because Internet – IndieBound
– IPA – Wikipedia
Handwriting Recognition
– PalmOS Graffiti – Wikipedia
– Reading Jumbled Letters – Science Alert
– Remarkable
– Learning Helm – O’Reilly
– GoodNotes
Tile Puzzle of the Mind
– Train Cab Videos – YouTube
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Zak and Liz talk about the best dairy-free cream cheese that Liz has had the pleasure of spreading onto a bagel.
Zak calls out the cowards at Malk Organics LLC for not standing up to the dairy lobby… oh, and their new oat milk isn’t that good.
Zak describes the Log4Shell exploit and all of the innocuous decisions that lead up to its presence in a large amount of software written in Java.
Recorded on December 22, 2021
Dairy Alternatives
– Tofutti Cream Cheese
– Malk
Log4Shell – Wikipedia
– 4K Yule Log – PBS on YouTube
– Log4J – Apache
– Logging and Monitoring – The New Stack
– JNDI – Wikipedia
– Java RMI
– URLClassLoader
– Tomcat BeanFactory – Apache
– The Jira Issue
– Prepared statement – Wikipedia
– Dependabot – GitHub Blog
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Zak and Liz talk about the best chocolate chip cookie in Milwaukee. You can only get them during certain times of year, so make sure to get them while they’re hot.
Zak explains the ‘soup’ model for the genetic testing of Subway™ Tuna™.
Liz rambles about how the Matrix Conversation Standard works. The servers get ratcheted twice, I think.
Recorded on December 5, 2021
Subway Tuna
– Episode about Subway Bread – Worrying Bugs
– Episode about Subway Tuna – Worrying Bugs
– The Big Tuna Sandwich Mystery – The New York Times
– Millennials Are Killing Tuna – Wall Street Journal
– PCR – Wikipedia
– The Seafood List – FDA.gov
– Inside Edition investigation on Subway tuna
– Subway Tuna Facts – Wayback Machine
– Joseph McCarthy – Wikipedia
– You’re Wrong About the McDonald’s Hot Coffee Case – Overcast.fm
– Numpty – Wikitionary
Matrix Conversation Standard
– Signal Messenger
– Double Ratchet Algorithm – Open Whisper Systems
– Secure Key Exchange – Computerphile on YouTube
– Snow Crash – IndieBound
– Matrix Signal Bridge
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Zak and Liz start this episode by talking about the personality disorder of a fictional character. There was probably some context, but it has been lost to time.
Liz has some serious FOMO for Obsidian. If only she had something to write about.
Liz decided that years of research that all says “don’t work where you sleep” couldn’t be talking about her. She tells us why she put her desk in her living room when she has a perfectly good office room.
Recorded on November 21, 2021
Count Olaf’s Antisocial Personality Disorder – Journal of English Language and Literature
Obsidian
– The Engineering Notebook – Science & Engineering Fair of Houston
– Commonplace Book – Wikipedia
– The Memex Method – Cory Doctorow
– Obsidian Daily Notes
– NaNoWriMo
– Sewing Machine Animation – YouTube
– Obsidian Forums
New Desk Setup
– Shearing – Wikipedia
– They Don’t Know I Know This Hack – In The Know
– Widdershins
– Cognitive Behavioral Therapy – APA
– Apple Watch Mac Unlock – Apple
– Flip Clock Screensaver
Ace of Spades – IndieBound
– Open Library
– The StoryGraph
Streamlabs OBS Debacle – The Verge
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