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Zak and Certus talk about all the things that we don’t know about school, trying to eat less cheese, side effects, and the true meaning of hell.

 

The Semester

• Cookbook Numbers Voodoo – Slate

Who Pays For Roads? – U.S. Public Interest Group

• Naked Economics – IndieBound
• Internet Mattress
• Sous Vide – Wikipedia
• Hydraulic Press Channel – Youtube
• DARPA Robot Dogs
• Right to Roam – Wikipedia

Future Fictions

• People Watching S2E1 – YouTube
• A Message From the Future with AOC – YouTube
• Survival of the Richest – Medium
• Reconcilable Differences with a Churchill quote about Government in the shownotes
• Rules for Rulers – YouTube
• Little Brother – Free Download From the Author

Trials

• Basic Stretching – Mayo Clinic

Book Club – Fall; or, Dodge in Hell

• Metamorphoses – Wikipedia
• Sartre’s “No Exit” – Wikipedia
• How to Recognize Metatron – Learn Religions
• Good Omens – Amazon Video
• Seveneves

 

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Zak and Certus talk about crypto-food, what it even means to have goals… man, tap to trial, and the inevitability that Certus misunderstands the question.

 

Loss – Know Your Meme

Walmart Blockchain – TechCrunch

• IBM Food Trust
• Smart contract – Wikipedia (noted for unreadability but still the best I could find)
• Ethereum

2-year Goals

• Existentialism – Wikipedia
• Sisyphus – SparkNotes

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Future Fictions

• Wiscareers
• 19th century vision of 2000
• Deepfake – Wikipedia
• Reliability of Wikipedia – Wikipedia
• Continuum Trailer – YouTube
• Planetary Resources (Asteroid Mining) – Wikipedia
• Post-scarcity Economy – Wikipedia

Book Club – Fall; or, Dodge in Hell

• Xyproblem.info
• Flag of Aalburg – Wikipedia

Amazon’s Union-Busting Video – YouTube

 

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Zak and Certus talk about voting to have a popular vote, slamming zines with the bros, infinite laundry, a bunch of garbage, and what Hell will be like for Richard.

 

National Popular Vote Interstate Compact – Wikipedia

• Cartogram – Wikipedia

Zine – Wikipedia

• Whole Earth Catalog – Wikipedia
• Zinepop!
• NODE Zine
• Cool San Francisco Loft – YouTube
• Kirsten Dirksen – YouTube

SSLAM

• Anarchist Urban Planning
• Permaculture
• Retractable Living Space – YouTube
• Silk Road Paid Murders – Ars Technica
• Bundyville Podcast

Modded Minecraft

• Habitica
• Laundry Robot

#TrashFreeJuly

• Jujubes – Wikipedia
• Pi-hole

Etherpad

 

Fall; or, Dodge in Hell – IndieBound

• 9 Minute Snooze – MentalFloss
• Qualia – Wikipedia
• Escher’s Hand with Reflecting Sphere
• Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror – Wikipedia
• Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror (Poem)
• Brain Death (definitionally irreversible) – Wikipedia

 

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Zak and Certus talk about how we trend to go lo, definitely not a review of milk — no way, myspace currency, boring stuff, and a revived book club.

 

LogoLounge 2019 Trend Report

• Phox Band – Twitter
• 365 Days of Cacti – Instagram

Malk

Box Milk – The New Barn Blog

• Boxed Water is Better

Almond Cow

• Recipes
• Square Cube Law – Wikipedia

Facebook Libra

• Capitonym – Wikipedia
• Libra Explained – The Verge
• Anarchist Urban Planning
• Fiat Currency – Investopedia

Trial

• Trash in a Mason Jar – YouTube

Fall; or, Dodge in Hell

 

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Zak and Certus talk about Zak’s super radical beliefs about gas taxes and time tracking, the 2019th WWDC, Iceland’s inability to let go, and trying to be bored.

 

Gas Tax

• Oil Crisis – Wikipedia
• Basic Income – Wikipedia
• The War on Cars podcast
• Conversation on Liberalism (Ezra Klein Show on Player.fm)
• Exxon Careers
• Remaining Fossil Fuel Estimates – Our World in Data
• Extraction of Black Hole Energy

WWDC 2019

• Mac Pro – Apple
• Swift UI – Apple Developer Docs
• Combine – Apple Developer Docs
• Tim Ferriss

Languages

• Esperanto – Wikipedia
• Iceland’s New Vocab – Quartz
• Thorn – Wikipedia

Nap

• Polyphasic Sleep Infographic

Be Bored – Veritasium

 

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Zak and Certus talk about the longest cold open of all time, more button futures, and about trials, briefly.

 

Coffee Allocation

• The exact amount of happiness you can derive from coffee
• The exact amount of enjoyment you can derive from Stardew Valley
• Merlin Mann discusses Power Puttering – 5by5
• Myke Hurley talks about his daily journal – Relay FM
• Tamagotchi News – CBS
• Tamagoyaki

Charm Bracelet

• Transcontinental Rail Gauges – Wikipedia
• Network effect – Wikipedia
• Betamax – Wikipedia
• USB Implementers Forum
• w3c

 

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Zak and Certus talk about a scheduled time for play, Certus’ strong opinions on buttons, how we store memories, another gosh darn PHP warning, and naps.

 

Playdate console

• Panic Software
• List of Top Level Domains – Wikipedia
• Railway Adventures – Thomas the Tank Engine fan wiki
  • Railway Adventures Hardware – YouTube
• Teenage Engineering
• World’s most expensive fidget spinner – Mashable
• SNL Fidget Spinner – YouTube
• Stardew Valley
• Up-Down Arcade Bar
• Nintendo Controllers – Wikipedia
• Post-It App
• ATP on Go Bags
• MIAD

Pictures

• Google Photos
• Humane society

WARNING – PHP.net

Trial

• 20 Minute Power Nap

 

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Zak and Certus talk about Certus’ actuary friend, why Zak thinks Google is doomed, what Zak thinks the reasons are for the dooming, someone else who agrees with Zak, and the Summer of Trials.

 

Incentives

• Accountability Buddy – Forbes
• Scientific Method – Wikipedia

Google IO

• Google Polymer
• WWDC

Tech Monopolies

• Here’s how we break up Big Tech – Medium
• Ezra Klein talks to Katie Porter – Overcast
• A Better Way to Break Up Big Tech – New York Times
• Facebook Founder wants to Break Up Facebook – New York Times
• IndieWeb
• How to Make a Zine
• GNU Mailman (Open Source Mailing List)
• Email List – IndieWeb Wiki
• Web Notifications – Mozilla
• Instagram to RSS
• Ask.fm
• Google+ – XKCD

PSA

Matt Cutt’s 30 day challenges – TED

 

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Zak and Certus talk about Hooke’s law of attire, brutalism in the sun, Zak being more flexible, Certus’ stress relief, a follow up on clock watching, and a cursory look at habit forming for Certus.

 

Spring

• Impluvium – Wikipedia
• Zip-off Pants – Amazon

Zak’s Pens

• Fire & Ice – Goulet Pens
• Noodler’s Creaper
• Ink Samples
• LAMY Bronze
• TWSBI Vac700R
• Ending a Text with a Period Makes You Sound Angry – Quartz
• Zak’s Vlog
• Pilot FriXion Erasable Pens – JetPens
• Evernote

Room

• Rogue Amoeba
• Maximize Misery – YouTube

Toggl

• Cortex

Radius & Ulna – YouTube

Incentives

• Dvorak Keyboard – Wikipedia
• Android Habit Tracker App

 

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Zak and Certus talk about a keyboard no one can type on, what isn’t wrong with Certus’ arm, the pens that Zak doesn’t have, the semesterly themes that they didn’t stick to, politics that no one cares about, instructions that no one reads, and a game that gives us the freedom to not play it sometimes.

 

Chorded Keyboard – Wikipedia

• Clock Circuit – Minecraft Wiki
• Alarm Clock – Amazon
• My Dumb Watch
• Keyboard Matrix
• Snowcrash

Pens

• Secret Mind Motions – Do By Friday

Semesterly Themes

• Toggl
• Matt Cutts 30 Days
• Jack Dorsey’s “Wellness Habits” – CNBC

Secrets

• Roderick’s Cigarettes
• Uber Eats

Veggie Disks – The Guardian

• Red Herring Play – Dramatist Play Service
• Halloumi Burger – Max
• Overton Window – Wikipedia
• Big ASCII Burger

Kombucha

Stardew Valley

• Two Dots

 

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