Adventitious

Today we start at new giveaway, look at crazy homeowners associations, cringe at a blood based battery, talk killer mustangs, discuss  all Top Gears, shudder about Cannes, and get buzzed by our phones.

 

Links from this episode:

- Wood Phone Charging Dock, Beeiee Wood Cell Phone Charging Dock - Blue Lives Matter flag deemed 'racist,' ordered to come down - How To Pronounce Car Brand Names - Real Wheels - Mustang Memes - 'I think I just bounce, I'm lucky like that': Richard Hammond laughs off his second high-octane crash while filming The Grand Tour in Mozambique - Top Gear America Has Landed And Here Are Its Three Hosts - Former ‘Top Gear USA’ hosts tease new project - The Next Episode of Top Gear UK May be the Best of the New Show Yet - What's behind Phantom Cell Phone Buzzes?

- Phone Dock Giveaway

Today we talk about Googles 35% improvement to the JPG algorithm, declassified videos of nuclear explosions, an article that says we don't need catalytic converters, and why Cheerios flowers are bad.

Links from this episode:

- Google's new algorithm shrinks JPEG files by 35 percent - Wall Street is starting to talk about the possibility of Apple buying Disney (DIS, AAPL) - These recently declassified nuclear test videos are utterly mesmerizing, terrifying - LLNL Atmospheric Nuclear Tests - Big Bang—The Evolution of a Theory - Dr Strangelove * - All You Need To Know About Catalytic Converters Is They Shouldn’t Exist - Why Catalytic Converters Should Exist - 10 Car Options the Law Won't Let You Have - Five biotech inventions the US is not ready for - Cheerios gave away flower seeds to save the bees, but they could do harm - The Amazing Story of Kudzu

Adventitious takes on guns, gun control and silencers.  Using Pew research on Police & guns, we talk concealed carry, bullseye target shooting, how shooting is Zen, and how silencers are a good thing.

Links from this episode:

- Pew Research Center: Behind the Badge - MILLER: The gun-show loophole myth - An Open Letter to Liberal Friends on Gun Control - Get Into Bullseye Shooting - Browning BuckMark Pistols - The Inner Game Of Everything: Why Is A Four-Decade-Old Tennis Book Still A Self-Help Sensation? - The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance * - Walther PPK/S - Beretta 92 FS - Murder and homicide rates before and after gun bans - H.R.367 - Hearing Protection Act of 2017 - ‘Humble, spiritual’ armed motorist saved trooper from attack on Arizona highway - NRA: Gun Safety Rules

Today we talk about exposed Trump tax returns, Bush "W" schooling Matt Lauer, Boaty McBoatface, the Nissan GTR LM, carbon fiber, pickles & peppermint, the Oxford Comma, flooding & the VW Phaeton.

Links from this episode:

- Bill Maher calls Rachel Maddow's tax scoop 'a Help Trump Burger' - George W. Bush Favors A ‘Welcoming’ Immigration Policy, Says Media Is ‘Indispensable’ To Democracy - These photos show the real Boaty McBoatface in all its glory - Here’s How Much Pee There Is in a Swimming Pool - Iditarod dogs reach checkpoint without their sleeping musher - Formula 1 - Corvette Racing wins third straight 12 Hours of Sebring in GTLM class - Nissan GTR LM Nismo - 4 Reasons Why Its FWD & Front Engine - Audi Will Withdraw From Endurance Racing To Concentrate On Formula E - Carbon fibre's journey from racetrack to hatchback - What's the Story? Exploring the peppermint stick and pickle snack from the South Side - Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions in Overtime Dispute - Microsoft is pulling the plug on Windows Vista, the operating system everybody loved to hate - Salt Lake flood of 1983 - More cities swapping out sandbags with Muscle Wall - McDonald's on anti-Trump tweet: Account was hacked - VW Admits Tesla Model S Killed Off Next-Gen Phaeton - Volkswagen Phaeton W-12 4MOTION

This time we talk about the Geneva Auto Show, blank books, pink water, Xiaomi ham radios, RAMBO, a spider silk tie, Harbor Freight, Make Magazine, and John Conway's Game of life made into a clock.

Links from this episode:

- Geneva Motor Show - Lamborghini Huracan Performante's active aero is the secret to its speed - Up close with Aston Martin’s Valkyrie, a hypercar fit for a Norse god - Gallery 2018 Porsche 911 GT3 - The RUF Yellow Bird: The inside story on why it flies again - Help the environment -- Buy a gas guzzler - ‘Reasons to Vote for Democrats’ jumps to the top of Amazon’s bestseller list. But its pages are blank. - Canada city's water turns bright pink after disinfecting agent seeps into water supply - Move Over Baofeng, Xiaomi Want To Steal Your Thunder - SpaceX Will Reuse A Rocket Booster For The First Time - The US Army just 3D printed the ultimate weapon and called it RAMBO - Synthetic Spider Silk for Sale in a $314 Necktie - Don’t Hate on the Harbor Freight - Make: - Harbor Freight Tools - A Brief Chat about Carbide Tooling - John Conway's Game of Life - A Clock Created with Conway’s Life

Scott Adams posted an interesting take on Global Warming.  We continue our discussion, though I doubt we have wrapped it up.

Links from this episode:

- Smog in the American West: Study shows Asia largely to blame - How to Convince Skeptics that Climate Change is a Problem - Hot Topic: Climate Change and Insurance - Little Ice Age - Medieval Warm Period - London to produce its first organic wine since the middle ages - The development of the atomic model - The Inevitable Evolution of Bad Science - Pascal's Wager about God - Asteroid passed unusually close to Earth last week - The Tunguska Impact--100 Years Later - Not All Climatologists - CLIMATE SCIENCE SURVEY (Study) - IPCC Insider Rejects Global-Warming Report - UN Scientists Who Have Turned on the UN IPCC & Man-Made Climate Fears — A Climate Depot Flashback Report - 100th Anniversary of Water Chlorination - Get politics out of climate debate: Opposing view - The Great Collapse of the Carbon Trading Chicago Climate Exchange - Clouds- The Wild Card of Climate Change - Ice Core Data Help Solve a Global Warming Mystery - Synchronous Change of Atmospheric CO2 and Antarctic Temperature During the Last Deglacial Warming - Satellite & Balloon Climate Data Corroborates Slower Warming

Scott Adams posted an interesting take on Global Warming.  We take it on and discuss at length.

Links from this episode:

- Smog in the American West: Study shows Asia largely to blame - How to Convince Skeptics that Climate Change is a Problem - Particles Found to Travel Faster Than Speed of Light - Once Again, Physicists Debunk Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos - Climate Change Funding and Management - Skeptical Climate Scientists Coming In From the Cold - 1981 climate change predictions were eerily accurate - Empty Space is NOT Empty - Tucker vs. Bill Nye the Science Guy - NASA.gov Q. Why use the adjusted rather than the "raw" data? - A Top Climate Scientist Blows the Whistle on Shoddy Climate Science - Cities tend to be warmer than rural areas - Ocean Temperature - Will Pacific Island Nations Disappear as Seas Rise? Maybe Not - Small atoll islands may grow, not sink, as sea levels rise

Today we look at the Nokia 3310, Ham radios in space, Holographic 3D printing, the cost-benefit ratio of owning a 3D printer, ABS smoothing, Ford's friend with a death wish, and the nuts Colin Furze.

Links from this episode:

- Hands on: New Nokia 3310 (2017) review - SpaceX launch ham radio transceiver to ISS - Hams in Space - 3D Printing Using Holograms is Actually Printing in 3D - Hackaday - Ask Hackaday: Is Owning A 3D Printer Worth It? - Introducing the MOD-t 3D Printer - Digitally Hand Crafted - Costco Photo Center - Simple way to make ultra-smooth 3D prints at home - Kickstarter: PolySmooth & Polysher: 3D Prints Without Layers - Razor MX350 Dirt Rocket Electric Motocross Bike * - ColinFurze YouTube Channel

We try Peeps and Peanutbutter Oreos, use Usenet as a backup, hash HTML5 and Flash, look at the Mythro Air, classify the Snuggie, lust after a Porsche shooting break, and want FM on our smartphones.

 

Links from this episode:

- Oreo PEEPS Marshmallow Creme Sandwich Cookies, LIMITED EDITION 10.7 oz * - Oreo Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookie, 15.25 oz * - Bored with ho-hum cloud backups? Use Usenet (yes, Usenet!) instead - Flash vs HTML5 - Puffin Web Browser (Not Parrot, which is what I called it. Sorry) - Moshi Mythro Air Bluetooth In-Ear Earbuds - Gray * - Samsung factory fire triggered by discarded batteries - Survey: Customers lose confidence in Samsung after Galaxy Note 7 recall - US court confirms Snuggies are blankets, not clothes - Snuggies on Amazon * - Why Toyota Only Sold One Prius in China Last December - Here's the Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo In All Its Wagon Glory - The FCC wants you to be able to listen to FM radio from your smartphone - ActivateFMChip.com

This week we discovered why  windows drivers are dated 2006, talk SpaceX, discuss SETI, marvel at the planets of TRAPPIST-1, and talk about Russian smoke detectors of death.

 

Links from this episode:

- Microsoft Explains Why Windows Drivers Are Dated June 21, 2006 - Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? - SpaceX docks with space station on second try - Elon Musk accuses the UAW of paying an employee to unionize Tesla - SETI Institute - Seti@home - This Ain't Your Grandma's SETI - NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single Star - Soviet Era Smoke Detector Torn Down, Revealing Plutonium