
Episode 605: A Case for a Life
DISCUSSED: Dan begins a new journey into smart home living, and Merlin is excited about common misconceptions.
January 31, 20231h 4m
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Show Notes
DISCUSSED: Dan begins a new journey into smart home living, and Merlin is excited about common misconceptions.
Links:
- List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia — Each entry on this list of common misconceptions is worded as a correction; the misconceptions themselves are implied rather than stated. (via Sam Enright)
- The Cabinet of Wikipedian Curiosities – Sam Enright — Carl Sagan was involved in this plan to nuke the moon for unclear reasons, including “a possible boosting of domestic morale”.
- Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
- The Food Expiration Dates You Should Actually Follow - The New York Times
- The Thoughts of a Spiderweb | Quanta Magazine — Spiders appear to offload cognitive tasks to their webs, making them one of a number of species with a mind that isn’t fully confined within the head.
- Reconcilable Differences #200: The Genius Who Keeps Retiring - Relay FM
- Home Assistant
- “Monorail!” How Conan O’Brien Came Up With an Iconic ‘Simpsons’ Episode - The Ringer
- An Oral History of 'Marge vs The Monorail', the Episode That Changed 'The Simpsons'
- Home | Archive of Our Own — A fan-created, fan-run, nonprofit, noncommercial archive for transformative fanworks, like fanfiction, fanart, fan videos, and podfic
