Episode description

TOPIC: Lists

This week, Dan and Merlin talk about 3½ kinds of lists that can change your game.

Merlin knows a lot about Productivity.

Links for this episode:

• Interstate (typeface) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Interstate is a digital typeface designed by Tobias Frere-Jones in the period 1993–1999, and licensed by Font Bureau. The typeface is closely related to the FHWA Series fonts, a signage alphabet drawn for the United States Federal Highway Administration in 1949.
• Brother's Little Helper/Quotes - Simpsons Wiki
  'Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! You can't just go ““OFF”” Focusyn!'
• Shiksa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Pastebot — Command Copy & Paste for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store
  Pastebot is a powerful new clipboard manager that stores text and images copied from your iPhone/iPod Touch. Copy something you want to save, run Pastebot and it automatically gets imported for you to access later.
• Goodfellas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Goodfellas (stylized as GoodFellas) is a 1990 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is a film adaptation of the 1986 non-fiction book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Scorsese. The film follows the rise and fall of Lucchese crime family associates Henry Hill and his friends over a period from 1955 to 1980.
• 5by5 | 5by5 at the Movies #1: Goodfellas
  Dan Benjamin and John Siracusa discuss Goodfellas.
• Goodfellas - Tommy's mother's house - YouTube
  
• The Keep on the Borderlands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  The Keep on the Borderlands is a Dungeons
• Little Printer | BERG Cloud
  Little Printer lives in your home, bringing you news, puzzles and gossip from friends. Use your smartphone to set up subscriptions and Little Printer will gather them together to create a timely, beautiful miniature newspaper.
• Mac Buyer's Guide: Know When to Buy Your Mac, iPod or iPhone
  This page provides a product summary for each Apple model. The intent is to provide our best recommendations regarding current product cycles, and to provide a summary of currently available rumors for each model.
• The Rogues Gallery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  The Rogues Gallery was a supplement listing hundreds of pre-generated non-player characters for use by the Dungeon Master, including characters from all the standard first edition AD
• GROGNARDIA: Retrospective: The Rogues Gallery
  
• One Year of Squarespace 6 — The Official Squarespace Blog
  One year ago today we launched Squarespace 6, a culmination of our best thinking in content management and site publishing coalesced over eight years of running Squarespace. This launch resulted in a period of growth like we’ve never seen before: The number of customers using Squarespace 6 surpassed the number of Squarespace 5 customers within nine months of launch. That’s only nine months to exceed what initially took eight years to create. Consider us exceptionally proud.
• Lightbox of Topics
  
• Pastebot — Tapbots
  Pastebot is a powerful clipboard manager that stores text & images copied from your iPhone/iPod Touch. Organize, apply filters to, and copy clippings to be pasted or sent to other apps. Don’t just use Copy & Paste. Command it!
• Amazon.com: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (9780142000281): David Allen: Books
  
• Boys' Life magazine
  
• Admiral Farragut Academy | Private School For Boarding And Day Students
  
• Focusyn - Simpsons Wiki
  It was given to Bart Simpson when it became apparent that he had ADD.
• Brother's Little Helper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  In the episode, Bart floods the school gymnasium, which prompts the school's principal Seymour Skinner to diagnose Bart with ADHD. Bart is prescribed a psychostimulant drug called Focusyn (a parody of Ritalin), and initially starts paying more attention to his studies. After a while however, Bart starts turning psychotic and is convinced that Major League Baseball is watching over the people of Springfield.

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