101: ‘Like a Butt Crack’ With Christa Mrgan
The Talk Show With John Gruber
11/25/14
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Special guest Christa Mrgan joins the show to talk about Yosemite UI design, Apple TV’s aesthetics (and its shitty IR remote control), Apple Watch speculation (including using it as an Apple TV remote), the Watch’s new San Francisco font, bling in icon design, and more. It’s a Thanksgiving week design-focused spectacular.
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Links:
- Christa Mrgan on Twitter.
- Rogue Amoeba software (and Piezo in particular).
- Super Bowl 50.
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100: ‘People Are Gay All the Time’ With John Moltz
November 15, 2014
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Who else but very special guest John Moltz to ring in The Talk Show’s centurial episode. Topics include iPhone display sizes (and in particular, our mutual preference for the old 5S 4-inch size over the 4.7-inch iPhone 6); the new book Moltz co-wrote, The Visual Guide to Minecraft; writing tools, including word processors and Markdown; shopping for gaming PCs as a Mac person; Microsoft Office going free on mobile platforms; Twitter’s stilted strategy statement; President Obama’s statement on Net Neutrality; and Tim Cook’s eloquent essay announcing that he’s gay.
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- Igloo: The intranet you’ll actually like.
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Links:
- The Visual Guide to Minecraft, co-written by Moltz.
- Twitter’s “strategy statement”.
- Tim Cook: “I’m proud to be gay.”
- David Sparks’s Markdown Field Guide
- Fountain — a Markdown-inspired plain text format for screenplays.
- Highland — A Fountain viewer/editor.
- Slugline — A more WYSIWYG-style Fountain editor.
- Punch-cutting double-density (800 KB) 3.5-inch floppy disks to make them work as high-density (1.4 MB) disks
- The CocoaLove conference in Philadelphia
- President Obama on Net Neutrality
- Paul Lynde
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102: ‘Maybe You Don’t Take an Apprentice’ With Dave Wiskus
December 5, 2014
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Special guest Dave Wiskus joins the show to talk about the new teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and just-announced title and cast for the 24th EON Productions Bond movie, Spectre. Other topics include the untapped potential of podcasting and YouTubing, cutting babies in half, turtle copulation, and kangaroo genitalia.
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Links:
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser
- Spectre, the upcoming 24th EON Productions James Bond film
- Midnight Run
- Original 1976 Star Wars trailer, sans John Williams’s score, with uncolored lightsabers and a Helvetica Bold logotype
- John Brownlee: “In Defense of the New Star Wars Lightsaber”
- BBC’s Fleming miniseries (It’s currently streaming on Netflix.)
- Everything or Nothing — good documentary on the Bond films, also streaming on Netflix currently
- Fantastic re-cut Never Say Never Again intro, including Dionne Warwick’s unused recording of John Barry’s “Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” for the opening credits
- Dave Addey: “Typeset in the Future: Alien”
- Unprofessional
- Wiskus’s “Better Elevation” video show, and the recent “Podcast Intervention” and “How to Make a Hit App” episodes
- CGP Grey
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