Episodios

  • Dieter Rams Points and Shrugs

    Dieter Rams Points and Shrugs
    Apr 28 2025
    Ned and Meg admire the magnificent Dieter Rams, who pointed and shrugged his way into our hearts, and we discuss his legendary ten principles of good design.
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    1 h y 28 m
  • The Grift that Keeps on Giving

    The Grift that Keeps on Giving
    Apr 21 2025
    Ned and Meg celebrate the near-anniversary of the Titan Sub Failure with a couple updates about the ongoing situation, lawsuits, obituaries, and so on. We also learn a couple things about the Gay Agenda, no relation to the Titan Sub Failure. Thanks for listening to our schadenfreude. Wash your hands, don’t be a dick!
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    54 m
  • Little Gems for the People #5: Analogies or Something

    Little Gems for the People #5: Analogies or Something
    Apr 18 2025
    Ned and Meg recorded this so long ago that they don't even remember what it's about! It's like looking for a pine needle in a haystack, or some other bad analogy. We are apt to surprise and delight (maybe) everyone, even us (probably). I mean delighting ourselves is basically the whole point of this thing. Thanks for listening, wash your hands, don't be a dick!
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    37 m
  • Shame Solutions, or Something

    Shame Solutions, or Something
    Mar 31 2025
    Meg and Ned talk about an awful book in the category of self-help writing that Meg had to read for school. It's about how our culture in America shames women and it totally sucks not because it's true, which it is, but because it fails in its aims, except for one tiny excerpt near the very end and that part is about a man. It's the only part of the book that is any good. That's an opinion. If this book saved your life, well, bully for you. We also discuss just what the hell is wrong with our parents' entire generation. In light of this we discuss shame, shaming, shame as a tool of control, and shamey shame-shame. Also poop. Lotta poop. Thanks for joining us, wash your hands, don't be a dick.
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    1 h y 8 m
  • Little Gems for the People #7, Boomerphone

    Little Gems for the People #7, Boomerphone
    Feb 17 2025
    Ned and Meg explore examples of familial triangulation involving people who grew up before answering machines and modern smartphone technologies. This leads to a chat about doubling down. Thanks for listening, wash your hands, don't be a dick.
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    19 m
  • Little Gems for the People #6, Net Neutrality

    Little Gems for the People #6, Net Neutrality
    Feb 10 2025
    Meg forces Ned to explain Net Neutrality on the spot, and then after that we talk about how US courts just overturned it, which is bad. In addition to the bad idea of ending net neutrality, we also talk about flat earth. Thanks for listening, wash your hands, don't be a dick!
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    23 m
  • Cosmic Latte, Don't Call it Beige

    Cosmic Latte, Don't Call it Beige
    Feb 3 2025
    Ned and Meg talk about #fff8e7, the hexadecimal index of the color Cosmic Latte. And what is a cosmic latte? Why, it's the average color of all the light emitted in the universe, or close to it! We chat about how this color came to be known in 2002 and the guys who discovered it. We also talk about physics jokes, free will and the double slit experiment, deterministic universes, and coffee. Because of course we talk about coffee. Thanks for listening, wash your hands, and don't be a dick!
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    1 h y 26 m
  • Petards Be Hoistin'; From Scratch, Hard Lines and Gray Areas

    Petards Be Hoistin'; From Scratch, Hard Lines and Gray Areas
    Dec 23 2024
    Ned and Meg get off topic super quick because we were in the same room again. Joy! Hello to everyone we met in San Diego, you're all wonderful! Ned and Meg talk about people who hang themselves with their own ropes, also idiomatically known as being hoisted by one's own petard, thank you Shakespeare. We talk about whales and linguistics and dogs with vocabulary buttons and the meaning of the phrase 'from scratch,' plus Bde Maka Ska, a lake in Minneapolis. Thanks for listening, wash your hands, don't be a dick!
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    1 h y 3 m
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