This week's challenge: watch Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone.

You can hear the after show and support Do By Friday on Patreon!

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Edited by Alex Cox

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• Welcome | NaNoWriMo
• Movember - Movember
• No Nut November - Wikipedia
• Will Blunderfield - YouTube
• Their / They're / There - Wikipedia
• Giraffes? Giraffes! - Wikipedia
• Benny (The LEGO Movie) | Brickipedia | Fandom
• After fentanyl found in candy bags at LAX, officials warn parents to check Halloween candy
• Community S2 E06: Epidemiology / Recap - TV Tropes
• Where to Buy Nathan Fielder’s Laptop Harness | The Strategist
• Set (Egyptian God) - World History Encyclopedia
• Diegetic Sound and Non-Diegetic Sound: What’s the Difference? - 2022 - MasterClass
• The Story Behind I Think You Should Leave’s ‘Coffin Flop’
• Chernobyl (miniseries) - Wikipedia
• Opinion | Fake news and creeping surrealism - The Washington Post
• Haley Byrd Wilt 🌻 on Twitter: "We naturally dressed up as our favorite band https://t.co/lwdZVOTc75" / Twitter
• Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone - Wikipedia
• Adam Curtis on the fall of the Soviet Union's worrying parallels with modern Britain - YouTube
• Tom Tom Club - “Wordy Rappinghood” - YouTube
• Hafez al-Assad - Wikipedia
• HyperNormalisation - Wikipedia

• TraumaZone: Adam Curtis’s nightmarish study of the Soviet Union’s downfall | Dazed
• Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone review – ingenious, essential viewing from Adam Curtis | Documentary | The Guardian
• Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone, review: Adam Curtis' astonishing autopsy will leave you wide-eyed
• Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone review: Adam Curtis’s magic lantern through Russia - New Statesman
• TraumaZone: Adam Curtis' documentary 'TraumaZone' traces circumstances in post-Soviet Russia that led to rise of Vladimir Putin - The Economic Times
• Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone review – ingenious, essential viewing from Adam Curtis | Documentary | The Guardian

(Recorded Wednesday, November 7, 2022)

Next week's challenge: do something…visual.

This week's challenge: Dive deep on an obscure Apple thing.

You can hear the after show and support Do By Friday on Patreon!

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Edited by Alex Cox

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• Signal chain - Wikipedia
• Noise gate - Wikipedia
• Peter Gabriel - Intruder - YouTube
• Obsession x Voice (Failed Writer #6): John Gruber and Merlin Mann - YouTube
• 43f Podcast: John Gruber & Merlin Mann's Blogging Panel at SxSW | 43 Folders
• The F Word | On the Media | WNYC Studios
• What John Fetterman’s accommodations reveal about disability in America.
• Dopesick (miniseries) - Wikipedia
• Cucumber Water for Customers Only - Better Call Saul
• The Peripheral (TV series) - Wikipedia
• Apple's Freeform whiteboard app is now available for developers | Engadget
• Derealization - Wikipedia
• How to create Spotlight searches to store as Smart Folders in macOS Sierra | Macworld
• Run suggested shortcuts on iPhone or iPad - Apple Support
• macOS Ventura review: A work in progress – Six Colors
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps (Official Music Video) - YouTube
• How Yeah Yeah Yeahs' "Maps" Transcended the Post-Punk Revival - YouTube
• Small Fry (film) - Wikipedia
• After Steve – HarperCollins
• Wisdom.limo
• Keyboard Maestro 10.2: Work Faster with Macros for macOS
• Keyboard Maestro

Next week's challenge: watch Adam Curtis's Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone.

This week's challenge: make a proper mind map.

You can hear the after show and support Do By Friday on Patreon!

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Edited by Alex Cox

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• Food labels and the lies they tell us about grocery store ‘best before’ expiration dates - Vox
• Love Actually - Wikipedia
• Clap On Clap Off The Clapper (1984) - YouTube
• Five Below - Wikipedia
• Remaindered book - Wikipedia
• Markers for Adults Coloring - Hethrone Dual Tip Brush Pens, Fine Tip Markers for Calligraphy Painting Drawing, 6 Count B028 Napoleon Blue : Everything Else
• Pentel Color Pen, Set of 36, Assorted (S360-36) : Artists Markers
• Markers for Adults Coloring - Hethrone Dual Tip Brush Pens, Fine Tip Markers for Calligraphy Painting Drawing, 6 Count B028 Napoleon Blue : Everything Else
• Sesame Street: Aaron Neville And Ernie Sing Don't Want To Live On The Moon - YouTube
• Cotton - The Fabric of Our Lives ad from 1992 - YouTube
• Michael Bay Original Got Milk Commercial 1993 Who Shot Alexander Hamilton? Aaron Burr - YouTube
• Beef It's What's For Dinner - Circa 1993 - YouTube
• California Raisins Heard it Through the Grapevine (Better Quality) - YouTube
• Tony Buzan | Inventor of Mind Mapping
• The Complete Guide on How to Mind Map for Beginners
• MindMapTools
• Tony Buzan has defined these "rules" for Mind Mapping - MindMapTools
• Buzan's mind map guidelines in practical use - WikIT
• Bullet Journal
• toketaWare
• Mind Map & Brainstorm Ideas - MindNode
• vscode-mindmap - Visual Studio Marketplace
• Obsidian Mind Map Plugin is Mindblowing - Share & showcase - Obsidian Forum
• Pepe Silvia | Know Your Meme
• Post-it Super Sticky Full Stick Notes, 3x3 in, 6 Pads
• The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life (Learn In and Use It for Life) - Kindle edition by Tharp, Twyla
• Shitty First Drafts

(Recorded on October 20th, 2022)

Next week's challenge: dig deep on an obscure Apple feature.

This week's challenge: use Obsidian again.

You can hear the after show and support Do By Friday on Patreon!

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• SleepWatch — Find Your Best Sleep.
• AutoSleep Track Sleep on Watch on the App Store
• The Very Best of Jiminy Glick - YouTube
• The Official YAML Web Site
• Try Guys - SNL - YouTube
• Prank interview with Elijah Wood - YouTube
• ‎Spring for Twitter on the App Store
• Snorting Crushed Porcelain, Face Reveals and a TikTok Lawsuit - The New York Times
• Birds Aren’t Real, or Are They? Inside a Gen Z Conspiracy Theory. - The New York Times
• McGruff and the afterlife of PSAs.
• Power Tools — Invisibilia — Overcast
• Dumpling Time - Asian Restaurant in CA
• Daring Fireball: Markdown
• ThoughtAsylum
• Personal knowledge management - Wikipedia
• Obsidian
• Notion – One workspace. Every team.
• Best Note Taking App - Organize Your Notes with Evernote
• Craft - The Future of Documents
• Roam Research – A note taking tool for networked thought.
• nvALT - BrettTerpstra.com
• Visual Studio Code - Code Editing. Redefined
• Zettelkasten - Wikipedia
• Building a Second Brain
• Ulysses
• iA Writer: The Benchmark of Markdown Writing Apps
• Scrivener | Literature & Latte
• DEVONtechnologies | DEVONthink, professional document and information management for the Mac and iOS
• Pandoc - About pandoc
• Marked 2 - Smarter tools for smarter writers
• calibre - E-book management
• iTextEditors - iPhone and iPad text/code editors and writing tools compared

(Recorded on October 12th, 2022)

Next week's challenge: create a proper mind map.

This week's challenge: give Stage Manager another try.

You can hear the after show and support Do By Friday on Patreon!

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• TERF - Wikipedia
• Namibian female athletes disqualified from Olympics due to naturally high testosterone levels
• Pride in London: From protest to party and back again - BBC News
• Mrs. America (miniseries) - Wikipedia
• Two Headed Girl | All Episodes
• Alan Turing - Wikipedia
• David Bowie- Starman
• Kitchen Confidential Updated Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.): Bourdain, Anthony
• Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment: Wright, Robert
• Opinion | Education Divides Everything, Including Life and Death - The New York Times
• Kitty Pryde - Wikipedia
• Footprints (poem) - Wikipedia
• Alex Jones Drinking Supercut Video Posted to InfoWars
• Dopesick (miniseries) - Wikipedia
• Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty: Keefe, Patrick Radden
• Onan - Wikipedia
• WWDC 2022 - June 6 | Apple - YouTube
• The latest iPadOS 16 beta brings Stage Manager to older iPad Pro models | Engadget
• Stage Manager's iPad Bugs Are A Problem for the Mac Too
• Transcript: Phil Schiller, Craig Federighi and John Ternus on the state of Apple’s pro Macs | TechCrunch
• Daring Fireball: The Mac Pro Lives
• iPhone - Steve Jobs MacWorld keynote in 2007 - Full Presentation, 80 mins - YouTube
• Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs: Kocienda, Ken
• Apple iPad Keyboard Dock review: Apple iPad Keyboard Dock - CNET
• How to generate AI art with Stable Diffusion on a Mac | AppleInsider
• Learn advanced gestures to interact with iPad - Apple Support
• macOS Ventura Preview - Apple

(Recorded on October 5th, 2022)

Next week's challenge: use Obsidian.

This week's challenge: watch Wellington Paranormal.

You can hear the after show and support Do By Friday on Patreon!

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• Where was Alex last week?
• A Reasonable Monster | Do By Friday
• HappyLight Full-Size - UV-Free Therapy Lamp
• Gary Grumbach on Twitter: "Remarkable images coming from @AliVelshi and our NBC News team in Naples, more than 7 hours before high tide even hits.
• Blank Check with Griffin and David Wiki | Fandom
• More Trans Teens Are Choosing ‘Top Surgery’ - The New York Times
• 'N.Y. Times' Retracts Core Of Hit Podcast 'Caliphate' On ISIS : NPR
• Station Eleven (TV Mini Series 2021–2022) - IMDb
• Station Eleven: Mandel, Emily St. John
• Reconcilable Differences Store
• Was Buddy Ebsen the Original 'Wizard of Oz' Tin Man? | Snopes.com
• Giving Grandma a Hand - Kathy Bates in Merge Mansion Ad
• Podcasters Are Buying Millions of Listeners Through Mobile-Game Ads
• Waking Sleeping Beauty - HD Trailer
• Ep. 474: "The Dracula Protocol" - Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mann
• "Careful, he's been popping pills. - I hate fighting hopped-up people." Rumble Fish Script - transcript from the screenplay and/or S.E. Hinton movie
• Footprints (poem) - Wikipedia
• Flight of the Conchords - Wikipedia
• Our Flag Means Death (TV Series 2022– ) - IMDb
• Abbott Elementary (TV Series 2021– ) - IMDb
• Dimension20: The Beginning Begins (Ep. 1) | Fantasy High - YouTube
• Edgar | Dimension 20 Wiki | Fandom
• What We Do in the Shadows (2014) - IMDb
• What We Do in the Shadows (TV Series 2019– ) - IMDb
• Laser Kiwi flag - Wikipedia
• Drive By (Flight of the Conchords) - Wikipedia
• Some Delightful Taika Waititi Content - ungainly

(Recorded Wednesday, September 28, 2022)

Next week's challenge: give Stage Manager another try.

This week's challenge: make a Blot.

You can hear the after show and support Do By Friday on Patreon!

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Engineered by Cameron Bopp

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• What Makes Brain Fog So Unforgiving - The Atlantic
• Masimo MightySat Fingertip Pulse Oximeter with Bluetooth
• Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment: Wright, Robert
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
• The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
• Like, Comment, Subscribe : Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination
• Don't Believe That Viral TikTok Theory About Monster Energy And 9/11
• Pampered monkeys in Bali are masturbating using stone sex toys
• Monkeys Are Masturbating With Stone Sex Toys, Researchers Find
• Some Monkeys Use Stone Tools for Pleasure, Study Suggests - The New York Times
• Do monkeys use sex toys? Evidence of stone tool-assisted masturbation in macaques - YouTube
• Tropic Thunder - Wikipedia
• Alex Autoclave (Alex's Blot experiment)
• ungainly.me (Merlin's Blot experiment)
• Mike Pence in Pulp Fiction - ungainly
• AI Art - ungainly
• Entries tagged classics from ungainly
• MultiMarkdown
• Blot – A blogging platform with no interface.
• How to use Blot - Blot
• Notes - Blot
• About - Blot
• Templates - Blot
• Blot Themes on Github
• iamjeffperry/Blue-Slate-Blot-theme
• Visual Studio Code - Code Editing. Redefined
• Ulysses

(Recorded on Wednesday, September 14, 2022)

Next week's challenge: watch Wellington Paranormal.

This week's challenge: try CBN.

You can hear the after show and support Do By Friday on Patreon!

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Engineered by Cameron Bopp

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• Gigaverse
• Back to Work Episode 589: The Outgassing of Ancient Woods
• Apple's September 2022 Event: All The Small Things
• iPhone 14/Pro Impressions: Welcome to Dynamic Island! - YouTube
• The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done | The New Yorker
• The photo of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, annotated - The Washington Post
• Tampermonkey • Home
• Purfview/IMDb-Scout-Mod
• Blot – A blogging platform with no interface.
• CBD vs CBN: What’s the Difference?
• beeZbee CBD+CBN Gummies – Shop CBD Kratom
• Kanha Kanha NANO Galactic Grape Indica 100mg | Weedmaps
• Hemp Production and the 2018 Farm Bill - 07/25/2019 | FDA
• Coffee: The Greatest Addiction Ever - YouTube

Next week's challenge: create a blog just for you using Blot.

This week's challenge: watch more Fosse/Verdon.

You can hear the after show and support Do By Friday on Patreon!

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Edited by Quinn Rose

Engineered by Cameron Bopp

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• All That Jazz (film) - Wikipedia
• All That Jazz streaming: where to watch online?
• All That Jazz (1979) - Reference View - IMDb
• Pod That Jazzcast | Blank Check with Griffin and David Wiki | Fandom
• Blank Check with Griffin & David / All That Jazz with Lin-Manuel Miranda
• The Color of Pomegranates (1969) | The Criterion Collection
• Splatoon - Wikipedia
• Mann Family Vines - YouTube
• Wu Tang Clan New Album Leak (Griffin McElroy) - YouTube
• A Futile and Stupid Gesture | Official Trailer| Netflix - YouTube
• The Offer (Official Site) Watch the Making of The Godfather Limited Series on Paramount Plus
• The Offer | Official Trailer | Paramount+ - YouTube
• Robert Evans - Wikipedia
• The Kid Stays in the Picture (Audible Audio Edition)
• John Travolta Introduces Idina Menzel - YouTube
• Matt Berry : Bullseye with Jesse Thorn : NPR
• Story Structure 101: Super Basic Shit | Channel 101 Wiki | Fandom
• Nicholas Brothers .. The greatest dance sequence - YouTube
• Bob Fosse - Wikipedia
• Gwen Verdon - Wikipedia
• Big Spender - Wikipedia
• Chicago (musical) - Wikipedia
• Chicago (2002 film) - Wikipedia
• Fosse/Verdon (TV Mini Series 2019) - IMDb
• Hulu | Fosse/Verdon

(Recorded on Wednesday, August 31, 2022)

Next week's challenge: try CBN.

This week's challenge: watch Fosse/Verdon.

You can hear the after show and support Do By Friday on Patreon!

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Engineered by Cameron Bopp

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• Gift economy - Wikipedia
• Shameless Acquisition Target
• YouTube launches a dedicated page for podcasts - The Verge
• Regression toward the mean - Wikipedia
• The Simple Secret of Runway Digits - CGP Grey
• House of the Dragon: everything you need to know (no spoilers) - Alt Shift X
• Social engineering (security) - Wikipedia
• Army of Lovers - Crucified (Official Music Video) - YouTube
• The Act of Creation - Wikipedia
• Don LaFontaine - Wikipedia
• In a World... - Wikipedia
• Time to Penis / TTP | Know Your Meme
• Quiet quitting is a trend taking over TikTok and possibly your workplace : NPR
• The Rise of Workplace Surveillance - The New York Times
• Opinion | Are ‘Women’ Being Erased? - The New York Times
• People Are Demanding That Cloudflare Drop Kiwi Farms
• Puberty blocker - Wikipedia
• Kurt Vonnegut - Wikipedia
• Rob Bredow on Twitter: Kurt Vonnegut on making stuff
• Our Flag Means Death | HBO Max Originals
• Fosse/Verdon (TV Mini Series 2019) - IMDb
• Fosse/Verdon - Wikipedia
• Bob Fosse - Wikipedia
• Gwen Verdon - Wikipedia
• Cabaret (1972 film) - Wikipedia
• All That Jazz (film) - Wikipedia
• Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich

Next week's challenge: watch even more Fosse/Verdon.