John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk about low-stakes grammar issues, the continuing debate about partisanship in tech writing, more theories about an Apple TV product, the origins and fate of "friendly" programming environments like HyperCard, plus a little about Lego Star Wars and holiday toys for children.

Links for this episode:

• Why Hypercard Had to Die - Loper OS
  
• Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga - Amazon.com
  
• 5by5 Illustrated's picture for Hypercritical #45
  
• Sayre's law - Wikipedia
  
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation - Amazon.com
  
• The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Edition - Amazon.com
  
• The Elements of Style (4th Edition) - Amazon.com
  
• The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law 2011 - Amazon.com
  
• iMame for iOS
  
• Chicago Style Q&A: Possessives and Attributives
  
• The Elements of Style on possessives
  
• Apostrophe Catastrophe - Grammar Girl
  
• Wikipedia Manual of Style debate on possessives
  
• Arcade emulator iMAME punted out of App Store - TUAW
  

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