Episode 76: The Avatar of Dorian Gray

TOPICS: Better Meat & Working Backwards

This week, Dan and Merlin talk about the many strategic and tactical benefits of reverse-engineering your next project.

There is also extensive discussion of choosing, preparing, and cooking meat.

It's not food until is sounds like food and it smells like food.

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• 5by5 | The Incomparable #98: Obscure References and Sadness
  
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• TextExpander: bit.ly with authentication - Brett Terpstra
  
• TextExpander 4.0 Fill-In Feature on Vimeo
  
• How to Tell If That Steak is Done
  
• Amazon.com: Jaccard Supertendermatic 48-Blade Tenderizer: Home & Kitchen
  
• Netflix's lost year: The inside story of the price-hike train wreck | Internet & Media - CNET News
  
• The Finger Test to Check the Doneness of Meat | Simply Recipes
  
• Amazon.com: Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food (9780596805883): Jeff Potter: Books
  
• Cooking For Engineers - Step by Step Recipes and Food for the Analytically Minded
  
• Code Library - Squarespace Code Library
  
• Twitter / hotdogsladies: @MailChimp @markdicristina
  
• Amazon.com: The Complete Meat Cookbook (9780618135127): Bruce Aidells, Denis Kelly: Books
  
• Amazon.com: Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (9780684814650): Cheryl Mendelson, Harry Bates: Books
  
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• Amazon.com: Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men Volume 4 (Marvel Masterworks (Numbered)) (9780785158691): Chris Claremont, John Byrne, George Perez: Books
  
• Amazon.com: Little Owl Lost (9780763650223): Chris Haughton: Books
  
• kung fu grippe - (Phoenix at Comic-Con. Sigh.)
  
• Fernet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• [Merlin's MailChimp visitor badge]
  
• Flat iron steak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• 5by5 | After Dark #193: Grillin' with Marco and Dan
  
• The Picture of Dorian Gray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - Project Gutenberg
  
• Ep. 13: "Then There Was Pump Chili" - Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mann
  
• TextExpander Shortcuts (per Back to Work e76) — Gist
  
• 2011/12 Creative Mornings with Ben Chestnut on Vimeo
  
• Screencast on TextExpander 3 fill-in snippets (by Merlin)
  
• PURE Solutions: Hypoallergenic Hotel Rooms, Purifiers, Bedding
  
• Guerras Deli & Meats, San Francisco Deli, Bay Area Deli, Steak, Beef, Pork, Veal, Lamb, Sausages, Poultry, online deli ordering
  
• Home :: EmpireStateSouth.com
  
• NPR.org » Delicious Turkey Tips From Food Scientists
  
• Farm Egg - "ESS pepperoni, crisp carolina gold rice, corn puree, beech mushrooms, lambs quarter"
  
• Interpunct - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Prime Rib or Standing Rib Roast - Recipe File - Cooking For Engineers
  

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