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Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Sometimes you just want to listen to some people get off topic as quickly as possible.
Episodes
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Not Fucking Trustworthy
Ned and Meg talk about the latest hype at the intersection of the art world and block chain, NFTs. We dish on digital assets, block chain public ledgers, the…
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Passive Aggressive Foods
Ned and Meg celebrate May Day by talking all about food. We start with a ranking of passive aggressive foods, which segues into aggressive aggressive foods…
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The Ugliest Color
Ned and Meg discuss the grodiest color in the universe known to humans, Pantone 448 C. We analyze this color through several frameworks, including the ISCC…
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Existential Dread and the Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone of Despair
Ned and Meg get some stuff off their existential chests in this very existential episode about existential dread and a thing called the self-licking ice cream…
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Octothorpe Means Different Things to Different People
Ned and Meg and Dana go down the rabbit hole of unusual punctuation and before we know it, we embark on an accidental voyage of discovery where we uncover…
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What You Don't Know About Your Flop Sweat Might Be Killing You
Ned and Meg discuss the dangers of flop sweat, as well as Gio Ponti’s daughter, Lisa Ponti, who made exceptional drawings and watercolor paintings, and who…
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I Just Ran Up a Flight of Stairs
Ned and Meg discuss their favorite artist, Peter, of Peter Draws on YouTube. We discuss many of his videos and his aesthetic before moving on to aspirational…
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Toilette Design
Ned and Meg discuss crappers, commodes, and washlets. Join us on a foray into the world of toilet design and see how many variations there are on fulfilling a…
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Polka Dots
Ned and Meg discuss Yayoi Kusama, a visionary Japanese artist who works in dots and is probably the most influential living woman artist in Japan. It’s…
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Gestalt
Ned and Meg talk Gestalt. Design and more! Gestalt is a German word that means the shape of a thing, or like the quality of its appearance, or its form, we…
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Interrobang!?
Ned and Meg edify the masses and discuss punctuation, too. Interrobangs, interrogative point, and others, no punctuation is too weird for us. You can thank…
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Idiomatic Once in a Blue Moon
Ned and Meg and Dana talk about idioms, again! Violent idioms are confusing to us because we don’t want to beat dead horses or kill multiple birds or bite…
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Harm Reduction
Ned and Meg (well, mostly Meg) talk about the practice of Harm Reduction and why philosophers have totally failed to get into the conversation for the last 30…
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Short, Recordamaroo
Ned and Meg discuss beheading royals and the optics of even more trolley problems. We run through upcoming titles and subjects for podcast episodes.
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What's Outside Dana's House and Drive By Abortion Discussion
Ned and Meg and Dana ramble on about a few things. New identities in the white house! Two dogs, a cat and a first second gentleman. The virtuous side of…
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Short, Dana's Here!
Ned and Meg and Dana get together at long last and you can hear all THREE of us together! WE DISCUSS EDITORIAL FAILURES Bad idea avoidance specialist…
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Vampire Bikes
Ned and Meg discuss why you should never trust anyone to leave their crap at your house. Also wear a mask and wash your hands!
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Short, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers a Book Report
Ned and Meg are captivated by Dana’s retelling of a story written by Becky Chambers, called The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, which coincides with our…
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Transhumanism 3
Ned and Meg plus Dana continue the discussion around Transhumanism, or using technology to improve our own biology through design in order to improve the…
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Short, Penzey's Spice
Ned and Meg discuss the process of online orders in an age when they've been around for a long time. But their is a twist. Also, wear a mask, wash your hands.
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Butt Hurt About Everything
Listen, I'm not saying we might complain a lot in this episode, but I'm also not not saying that. If you know what I mean. Also, wash your hands and wear a…
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Short, Reverse Bechdel Test
Ned and Meg chat about the Bechdel Test, which listeners may already know, except we chat about what it means to pass or fail the REVERSE Bechdel test, and…
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Intelligent Design is Stoopid
Ned and Meg bag all over Intelligent Design, a religious conservative propaganda effort designed to undermine science and secure for its apologists various…
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Short, Exceptional Mouse
Ned listens in stunted horror as Meg describes making friends with a wild mouse that moved into her kitchen. This mouse is no mere mouse, but rather an…
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Jelery
Ned and Meg discuss Jelery. What even is Jelery? Is it jelly made of celery? Is it ants on a log but with jelly instead of peanut butter? Today we discuss…
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Short, Exodusters
Ned and Meg discuss the Exodusters! This intrepid group of former enslaved people left the American South after the Civil War ended and headed West as…
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Transhumanism 2
Ned and Meg continue the discussion around Transhumanism, or using technology to improve our own biology through design in order to improve the existence of…
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Short, Sickle Cell Disease Cure
Ned and Meg discuss the results of CRISPR-Cas9 Sickle Cell Disease treatment. Spoiler: It’s working!
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Transhumanism
Ned and Meg wade into a discussion about transhumanism. This is the first in a series where we discuss the improvement of the human condition through science…
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War on Christmas 2020 UPDATE
Ned and Meg discuss the war on christmas, again, again. This amazing year includes Starbucks cups, holiday arson, autopsies.
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Immanentize the Eschaton
Ned and Meg discuss Eschatonic Immanentization because Meg is learning to program and has mixed feelings. Also included in today’s episode are tech industry…
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Short, Retro Encabulator
Ned and Meg discuss the Turbo Retroencabulator, a most wonderful machine that does not exist, but if it did, this would be the sales and training video. Do…
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Parcel Delivery Box Redesign
Ned and Meg discuss the travesty that is the current state of parcel delivery box design. From there we veer off into discussion around design variables, why…
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Short, Obsessively Researched Flatware
Ned and Meg talk silverware, flatware, china patterns and espresso machines. This one is a bit obsessive compulsive and what started as a short discussion…
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The Trouble With Authenticity
Ned and Meg discuss the difficulties that come with trying to become a notary, or in this case maybe it’s easy? Also, what’s the deal with authentication? What…
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Short, Don't Smoke
Ned and Meg discuss the fact that we are both former smokers as we muse over bygone American cigarette culture. Also cigarettes are terrible, don’t start…
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Nonsense Company Names
Ned and Meg discuss the curious phenomenon of nonsensical branding on Amazon and other online retail sites. We take the usual detours and side roads, so…
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Short, Solving Dumb Design Problems Instead of Saving the World
Ned and Meg discuss trash can liners and a host of other dysfunctional everyday objects that we have to waste time interacting with instead of solving REAL…
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Headlines You Won't See
Ned and Meg discuss headlines you’re unlikely to see and why. Stories include a preschool coup, building saunas, risk assessment for jumping off tall stuff…
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Short, Logical Fallacies 3
Ned and Meg undertake the third in our series of shorts on logical fallacies by returning to a superlative source of definitions and examples, the Purdue Owl…
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Design Aesthetic of the Jetsons
Ned and Meg set out to discuss the design aesthetic of the Jetsons. Turns out that was a whole can of worms. We attempt to discuss design decisions while…
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Short, Games in the Time of COVID
Ned and Meg discuss playing games during a pandemic! Role playing games (aka RPGs) and others delight us even during COVID-19. Ticket to Ride is a fun game to…
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Housekeeping
Ned and Meg discuss housekeeping, which Ned basically intended to be housekeeping in the abstract sense, but Meg ran with it and discussed actually keeping…
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Short, Quest Trip Report
Ned and Meg revisit gaming as Ned explains the game Quest and offers a trip report on his recent evening playing it with friends. Did you know game mechanics…
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Hyperbolically Dangerous Domestic Inventions
Ned and Meg discuss 'really good ideas!' the likes of which may require inebriation or worse. Try our…
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Short, Halloweenies!
Ned and Meg discuss Halloween. Why is it so great? Because it’s a creepy liminal space and there’s nothing we like better than upending all the rules and…
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Hexes for the Modern Day
Ned and Meg discuss crafting contemporary hexes. So far we have hexes for butts, elevators, peeling skin, and more. If you would like us to craft a bespoke hex…
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Short, The Role Playing Game Quest
Ned talks a little bit about role playing games. He gets a little off track and gets into the weeds with Dungeons and Dragons, but ultimately gets back on…
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Gnome-More Pain Surgical Rehabilitation Clinic, Statuary Orphanage & Puppet Burn Ward
Ned and Meg discuss Classical Mythology and garden statuary of Bavaria plus American traditions in art-based humor. This is a weird history lesson with some…
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Short, Fyootility
Meg and Ned briefly explore futility. Talk a little bit about solar powered toasters, and maybe even think about kitchen gadgets!
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Designing things not usually associated with design, like ennui
Ned and Meg discuss ennui. Mostly this conversation circles around designing a sleepaway camp that ensures max boredom by the end of the week. Highlights…
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Short, Openface Sandwich
Ned and Meg discuss sammiches, but ONLY the openface kind. We like turkey dinner hobby kit, eggs, fruit, weird items, and curry. We chat about the various…
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That One About The 80s Cartoons
Ned and Meg discuss 1980s Cartoons and Saturday morning favorites. Lots of the ones we looked up we never even saw, or it turns out are just complicated ads to…
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Short, Logical Fallacies 2
Ned and Meg attempt to redeem the first episode on our series of shorts on logical fallacies by turning to a better source of definitions and examples, the…
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Designing Dystopias, Where Are We?
Ned and Meg attempt to tie all our past conversations about Dystopia into a single summary bundle, with predictably mixed results. We pull a drive-by on…
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Short, Logical Fallacies 1
Ned and Meg create a mess out of our initial discussion of logical fallacies. But it’s a fun mess. First and worst in a series on Logical Fallacies. The rest…
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A Litany of Human Indignities
Ned and Meg discuss a litany of human indignities. We review other people’s urine, men peeing all over, human incivility, starvation, genocide, war, your OWN…
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Short, Mapping Prejudice
Ned and Meg chat about the Mapping Prejudice project that uses GIS data to map racial covenants in housing deeds in Minneapolis, MN, with a goal of explaining…
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Gullibility, The Barnum Forer Effect and Horoscopes
Ned and Meg discuss the Barnum Forer Effect and Horoscopes. Did you know that you have a great deal of unused potential? How human are you today? Bertram R…
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Short, Close Talking in the Time of Covid
Ned and Meg chat about close talkers in a pandemic spread by close talking. We also take pot shots at updated covid mask designs, dysfunctional citrus presses…