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LinksThe Nutty Professor (1963) Jerry Lewis as Professor Kelp / Buddy LoveHank Azaria on Professor Frink Based him on Jerry Lewis in The Nutty ProfessorTropic Thunder Simple Jack; "you went full [redacted]"Be Kind Rewind Video essays on women in film historyStewart Lee British comedian; Paul Nuttall of UKIPStewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle BBC Two series (2009-2016)Tailscale Mesh VPN; part of the Iron TroikaAmphetamine macOS app to prevent sleepAutoMounter Keeps network shares mountedSynology NAS; Merlin's home server setupTP-Link Archer AX55 The routerNextDNS DNS with ad blocking; Iron Troika memberCloudflare Third member of the Iron TroikaDynDNS Dynamic DNS; the old wayLet's Encrypt Free SSL certificatesPasskeys Passwordless authenticationHide My Email Apple's email aliasingLinda Stone Coined "email apnea" and "continuous partial attention""Are You Breathing? Do You Have Email Apnea?" Linda Stone's original articleClaude Code as elevator music Matt Webb on the contemplative rhythm of working with Claude CodeJ. E

LinksTLC - "Waterfalls" Alex was four.No Such Thing as a Fish QI researchers' podcast; Merlin's been listening for yearsNo Such Thing As Debreadtion — No Such Thing As A Fish — Overcast The episode Merlin mentionedKen Burns' Jazz Episode 9 "The Adventure."TLC - "Unpretty" Merlin's favorite TLC song.Dead Drop Spycraft term for passing info without meetingKen Burns' Baseball Source of the Lincoln "tiredest" quoteA Knight of the Seven Kingdoms New Game of Thrones spinoffWhy Are Icelandic Horses Not Called Ponies? (Iceland Mag) Pony-sized but Iceland said it's a horseShip of Theseus (Khan Academy video) The philosophical paradox behind "Thesean Horse"Saint John Coltrane Church (KQED) Yes, there's literally a church for this albumJohn Coltrane - A Love Supreme (1965) The album that inspired the church"Is he quare?" Comedy repetition referenceHarry Enfield British comedian; "Is he queer?" sketchPaul Whitehouse The other half of the old men in the clubI Spy books (Walter Wick Studio) Merlin's analogy for how Claude

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Late Night with David Letterman - "Camping With Barry White" (May, 1983)

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This week's challenge: Find a new use for a button.

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This week's challenge: watch "Weapons" (2025).

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