January 17, 2025

252: Briefly, It Was the Future.

1 hour 40 minutes

Subtitle: Everything becomes crab.

Updates on match cuts, the college ranking racket, and some historical perspective on t-dropping.

Links and Show Notes:

Follow-Up brings updates on match cuts, the college ranking racket, and some historical perspective on t-dropping.

The main topic is kind of hard to pin down, but it might come down to a word choice on a website. Making it an ideal topic for this program.

In this month’s member bonus episode, there's some more discussion of scrobbling and media consumption, plus John watched The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2015), and Merlin wants to hear how it went.

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Credits

Audio Editor: Jim Metzendorf

Admin Assistance: Kerry Provenzano

Music: Merlin Mann

The Suits: Stephen Hackett, Myke Hurley

Get an ad-free version of the show, plus a monthly extended episode. Kieran Healy's Mastodon thread about college admissions selectivity

"The selectivity racket is driven by the US News & World Report Rankings…"

Kieran Healy's essay about "Engines of Anxiety: Academic Rankings, Reputation, and Accountability" (PDF) The Grammarphobia Blog: Uh-oh, it’s the glottal stop

'English speakers have been glottalizing the letter “t” since at least the mid-19th century.'

Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner (Video 2007) - IMDb John's Wristies This Is Water, by David Foster Wallace - Wikipedia Todd Vaziri's website - fxrant.blogspot.com Maria Menounos - Wikipedia The story of "Sidetalkin'" on the Panic Podcast Merlin's old Treo smartphone Some information about the Helmac lint roller How did Last.fm come with the term "scrobble"? The origins of "Scrobbler" - Audioscrobbler and Last.fm The Lobster (2015)

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