Episode 119: Big Bag of Pandora's Potatoes

TOPIC: Macintosh Nostalgia and Utter Apple ID Madness.

This week, after an entirely appropriate amount of very important follow-up, Dan and Merlin talk about Susan Kare's original Mac icons, why they're not going to be appearing on John Siracusa's t-shirt, plus the litany of completely monkeyballs problems that now has Merlin ready to literally shoot his Apple ID in the back of the head, mob-style.

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• 5by5 | The Incomparable #140: The Sublime Magicks of Exposition
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• Merlin Mann on Inbox Zero, Getting Things Done, Opportunity Cost and Sunk Cost Fallacy – BTTDL032
  
• Susan Kare - User Interface Graphics - Apple Mac Icons
  
• Apple Lisa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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• Apple II series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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• Meetings can be…awkward.
  "Everyone assumed someone else would bring bagels.But, alas: no one brought bagels."

  Brian Michael Bendis LOVES meetings.
  

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