John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the origins and suitability of Markdown, including why John doesn't use it and why you might want to, and why the entire PC industry can't seem to create a laptop as nice as a MacBook Air but for less money.

Links for this episode:

• Sprint Said to Plan Unlimited Data With IPhone - Bloomberg
  
• Hypercritical #6: Frivolous Things - 5by5
  
• Markdown - Daring Fireball
  
• Anchoring - Wikipedia
  
• CMDA - Wikipedia
  
• GSM - Wikipedia
  
• Predictably Irrational - TED Talk on "anchoring" and other topics
  
• Ultrabook: Intel's $300 million plan to beat Apple at its own game
  
• 6.270 - MIT's Autonomous Robot Design Competition
  

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