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 the flick of a switch.
Spoiler Alert:
Brendan goes on a great tangent on Batman Forever.
We talk about Leonardo diCaprio’s gorgeous horrific nature movie The Revenant.
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.
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.
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 combines Star Wars and the Yule Log.
Spoiler Alert:
We were mostly Star Wars free. Mostly. But not next week.
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 bald eagle meet, Uncle Sam the eagle is the American hero.
Spoiler Alert:
Nobody wants a half a pie.
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 powers to Rickroll ISIS.
Spoiler Alert:
Being Thankful this week is A Thing.
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.
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 talk a lot about SPECTRE
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 successes in Florida!
Twitter drops the star icon and “favorites” in favor of the heart icon and “likes”.
Biosensing kit with 3d-printable pieces for brain scanning on kickstarter.
Star Trek is returning to television!
Spoiler Alert:
Florida leads the nation… in stealing from people during Craigslist deals.