Independently Corny Decisions

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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Manifestly Tertiary Web

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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Markedly Watched P’dcast

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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Journalistically Hunted Containers

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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Agreeably Leaning Pickles

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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Lgebily Digitized Tiles

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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Problematically Shelled Soy

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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Fishily Ratcheting Allegations

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

PSA

 

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Therapeutically Commonplace Desk

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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Limitedly Almond Feeds

Zak and Liz try some passible dairy-free alternatives to yogurt and cream cheese. Mouth noises are included.

Liz need to scroll something… anything… so Zak tells us what RSS feed he’s subscribed to.

Liz’s computer ran out of disk space, so she and Zak explore their strategies for managing large files.

Recorded on November 10, 2021

Dairy-Free
As You Know, Bob – TV Tropes
9/11 caused 50 Shades of Grey – AV Club
Language Regulators – Wikipedia
Culina Yogurt
Turtles All The Way Down – Indiebound
Kite Hill Cream Cheese

RSS Feeds
Drafts
NetNewsWire
Dan Luu
Daring Fireball
Faster Than Lime
Furbo by Craig Hockenberry
The Pudding
Certus Stone
Macdrifter
Waxy.org
Pluralistic – Cory Doctorow’s blog
Cool Tools
FreshRSS (self-hosted feed aggregator)

State of the Storage
Backblaze
OmniDiskSweeper
Transport Fever 2
SATA vs PCIe M.2 – Crucial

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