Episode 171 Airlines are looking to auction off seat upgrades. The US is lifting the ban on federal funding for needle exchange programs. Apple is adding a Night Shift feature to reduce blue light in phones at night. Security company Knightscope release their security robots for rent. A pioneering vasectomy device can be reversed with […]

Episode 170 Baktun in Review! We look back over 2015 to see what were Things. Especially movies. Brendan’s top 10 movies of 2015 Spoiler Alert: We only talked a little Star Wars.

Episode 169 Special guest-host Todd Rosenthal (@trodesign) comes back as a guest! Elon Musk’s SpaceX lands their rocket after delivering an orbital satellite. Spoiler Alert: We talked a lot of Star Wars. A lot.

Episode 168 There was a bomb threat (hoax) that closed the entire Los Angeles school district. Philips uses DRM to block 3rd-party lightbulbs. You can now buy insurance against online trolling. Researchers are studying how people’s emotional state affects web surfing. Tokyo has a drone squad for hunting and catching other drones! A new video […]

Episode 167 Brendan is back! The Elf on the Shelf and the surveillance state. No more desks in Marriott hotels. A declassified CIA manual from 1944 about Sabotage. Raspberry Pi not cheap nor small enough? How about the Zero? Pentagon Chief orders all combat jobs be made available to women. When Donald Trump and a […]

Episode 166 Brendan was out this week, so we had TWO guest hosts: Jason Campbell (http://visualcraft.co/v1) and Todd Rosenthal (@trodesign) We talked about a number of topics but wanted to highlight: The School of Visual Philosophy. The Onion’s review of Spectre. Spoiler Alert: Brendan will definitely be back next week.

Episode 165 People are being hospitalized after using a “synthetic drug” called Spice. Charlie Sheen had an Non-Disclosure Agreement for sexual relations. They are building a special exclusive terminal at LAX. Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket successfully took off and landed. Someone has designed and released plans for a 3d-printed revolver. Anonymous uses their hacking […]

Episode 164 Blaming terrorism on encryption is Not A Thing! Faster (and ad-free) web-browsing by turning off Javascript. The NIH fully retires chimpanzee experimentation. A website called Law and the Multiverse reconciles criminal statutes to Batman’s evidence! Spoiler Alert: This might be our shortest episode ever.

Episode 163 Accountability of the police via body cameras is A Thing! A company is transliterating tweets onto stone tablets in cuneiform. Daily Fantasy Football ordered to cease and desist in New York. The Trans-Pacific Partnership was released… and it’s got some bad stuff in it. Spoiler Alert: We’re James Bond movie fans. Thus, we […]

Episode 162 Special Note: Dudeist Priest and Not A Thing Podcast Host Brendan married one of our listeners (to someone else!) Congrats Alysia and Jeff! Your marriage is A Thing! Special Note 2: Not A Thing Podcast Host Alan is participating in Movember. Washington to create Safe Exchange Zones for safer person-to-person sales after seeing […]