Episode 47: 47: Brute Force Attack
Hypercritical
5by5
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2011
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk about low-stakes grammar issues, the continuing debate about partisanship in tech writing, more theories about an Apple TV product, the origins and fate of "friendly" programming environments like HyperCard, plus a little about Lego Star Wars and holiday toys for children.
Links for this episode:
- Why Hypercard Had to Die - Loper OS
- Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga - Amazon.com
- 5by5 Illustrated's picture for Hypercritical #45
- Sayre's law - Wikipedia
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation - Amazon.com
- The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Edition - Amazon.com
- The Elements of Style (4th Edition) - Amazon.com
- The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law 2011 - Amazon.com
- iMame for iOS
- Chicago Style Q&A: Possessives and Attributives
- The Elements of Style on possessives
- Apostrophe Catastrophe - Grammar Girl
- Wikipedia Manual of Style debate on possessives
- Arcade emulator iMAME punted out of App Store - TUAW
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is hypercritical weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong. |
| 0:07.0 | In the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses, |
| 0:11.0 | nothing is so perfect that it cannot be complained about by my co-host John |
| 0:15.2 | Syracuse. |
| 0:16.2 | I'm Dan Benjamin. |
| 0:18.0 | Today is December 23rd 2011. |
| 0:21.0 | It's Friday. This is episode number 47. We have a couple of sponsors that we would |
| 0:28.3 | like to thank very much for making this show possible. The first one is Tap FFOLio and easy and beautiful way to look at |
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| 1:17.2 | Hello John Syracuse of Massachusetts. Hello Dan Benjamin of the lower part of the United States. |
| 1:25.0 | Where have you lived, Florida that's it? No I was born and raised in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. |
| 1:28.0 | Right but I mean like as an adult as an adult I lived in South Florida, Central Florida and Austin Texas and North Carolina |
| 1:38.6 | Raleigh area. |
| 1:39.6 | There you go for a while. |
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