Back to Work

Episode 605: A Case for a Life


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DISCUSSED: Dan begins a new journey into smart home living, and Merlin is excited about common misconceptions.

Links:

  • List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia — Each entry on this list of common misconceptions is worded as a correction; the misconceptions themselves are implied rather than stated.
(via Sam Enright)
  • The Cabinet of Wikipedian Curiosities – Sam Enright — Carl Sagan was involved in this plan to nuke the moon for unclear reasons, including “a possible boosting of domestic morale”.
  • Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
  • The Food Expiration Dates You Should Actually Follow - The New York Times
  • The Thoughts of a Spiderweb | Quanta Magazine — Spiders appear to offload cognitive tasks to their webs, making them one of a number of species with a mind that isn’t fully confined within the head.
  • Reconcilable Differences #200: The Genius Who Keeps Retiring - Relay FM
  • Home Assistant
  • “Monorail!” How Conan O’Brien Came Up With an Iconic ‘Simpsons’ Episode - The Ringer
  • An Oral History of 'Marge vs The Monorail', the Episode That Changed 'The Simpsons'
  • Home | Archive of Our Own — A fan-created, fan-run, nonprofit, noncommercial archive for transformative fanworks, like fanfiction, fanart, fan videos, and podfic
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