In the eighth episode of The Undisciplined Room, Scott and Sara discuss what can or can’t (mostly can) go into a breakfast burrito, the pros and cons (mostly cons) of electronics manufacturing in the Age of Apple, apps, ABC’s The Middle, and Dick Cavett’s continuing presence among the living.
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Show Notes
Kitchen Sink Burrito
- Scott’s Accidental Artisanal Ketchup
- Pinterest: Logos that Look Like the Pinterest Logo
- Pinterest: Critical/Creative engagement w/Infographics
- Scott’s Tumblr
- Tumblr: I’m experimenting with Tumblr while tracking examples of trouble for inspiration and for training to be a virtuous troublemaker.
Nightline/Foxconn
- YouTube: Nightline report on Foxconn/Apple
- New York Times: A Medical Mystery Unfolds in Minnesota
- UoP: Fiddly
- Apple: Supplier Responsibility
- Joshua Topolsky (Washington Post): Apple’s big chance to “act different” on labor
Apps
- Storify (iPad app)
- Trouble: Storify Fail
- Sara on Storify: Meat, Mask, Burden
- NPR: NPR Music Launches New iPad App (With a Little Help from The Shins)
- NPR Music (iPad/iPhone app)
- YouTube: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concerts
- Clear (iPhone app)
- Wikipedia: Gamification
- Orchestra To-do (iPhone app)
- Brain Pickings: John Lennon’s Handwritten To-Do List
- Leanpub
- Kathleen Fitzpatrick: Planned Obsolescence
Something I completely neglected to mention in our discussion of Apple and the working conditions at Foxconn: I’d like to juxtapose this situation with the working conditions in American agriculture, specifically as depicted in Tomatoland.