Today we start at new giveaway, look at crazy homeowners associations, cringe at a blood based battery, talk killer mustangs, discuss  all Top Gears, shudder about Cannes, and get buzzed by our phones.

Link to download this episode:
www.podomatic.com/podcasts/adventitious/episodes/2017-03-30T20_05_33-07_00

Links from this episode:
- Wood Phone Charging Dock, Beeiee Wood Cell Phone Charging Dock
- Blue Lives Matter flag deemed 'racist,' ordered to come down
- How To Pronounce Car Brand Names
- Real Wheels
- Mustang Memes
- 'I think I just bounce, I'm lucky like that': Richard Hammond laughs off his second high-octane crash while filming The Grand Tour in Mozambique
- Top Gear America Has Landed And Here Are Its Three Hosts
- Former ‘Top Gear USA’ hosts tease new project
- The Next Episode of Top Gear UK May be the Best of the New Show Yet
- What's behind Phantom Cell Phone Buzzes?

- Phone Dock Giveaway

Today we talk about Googles 35% improvement to the JPG algorythm, declassified videos of nuclear explosions, an article that says we don't need catalytic converters, and why Cheerios flowers are bad.

Link to download this episode:

www.podomatic.com/podcasts/adventitious/episodes/2017-03-26T22_30_09-07_00

Links from this episode:
- Google's new algorithm shrinks JPEG files by 35 percent
- Wall Street is starting to talk about the possibility of Apple buying Disney (DIS, AAPL)
- These recently declassified nuclear test videos are utterly mesmerizing, terrifying
- LLNL Atmospheric Nuclear Tests
- Big Bang—The Evolution of a Theory
- Dr Strangelove *
- All You Need To Know About Catalytic Converters Is They Shouldn’t Exist
- Why Catalytic Converters Should Exist
- 10 Car Options the Law Won't Let You Have
- Five biotech inventions the US is not ready for
- Cheerios gave away flower seeds to save the bees, but they could do harm
- The Amazing Story of Kudzu

Adventitious takes on guns, gun control and silencers.  Using Pew research on Police & guns, we talk concealed carry, bullseye target shooting, how shooting is Zen, and how silencers are a good thing.

Link to download this episode:

www.podomatic.com/podcasts/adventitious/episodes/2017-03-23T22_01_08-07_00

Links from this episode:

- Pew Research Center: Behind the Badge
- MILLER: The gun-show loophole myth
- An Open Letter to Liberal Friends on Gun Control
- Get Into Bullseye Shooting
- Browning BuckMark Pistols
- The Inner Game Of Everything: Why Is A Four-Decade-Old Tennis Book Still A Self-Help Sensation?
- The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance *
- Walther PPK/S
- Beretta 92 FS
- Murder and homicide rates before and after gun bans
- H.R.367 - Hearing Protection Act of 2017
- ‘Humble, spiritual’ armed motorist saved trooper from attack on Arizona highway
- NRA: Gun Safety Rules

Today we talk about exposed Trump tax returns, Bush "W" schooling Matt Lauer, Boaty McBoatface, the Nissan GTR LM, carbon fiber, pickles & peppermint, the Oxford Comma, flooding & the VW Phaeton.

Link to download this episode:

www.podomatic.com/podcasts/adventitious/episodes/2017-03-19T20_02_30-07_00

Links from this episode:
- Bill Maher calls Rachel Maddow's tax scoop 'a Help Trump Burger'
- George W. Bush Favors A ‘Welcoming’ Immigration Policy, Says Media Is ‘Indispensable’ To Democracy
- These photos show the real Boaty McBoatface in all its glory
- Here’s How Much Pee There Is in a Swimming Pool
- Iditarod dogs reach checkpoint without their sleeping musher
- Formula 1
- Corvette Racing wins third straight 12 Hours of Sebring in GTLM class
- Nissan GTR LM Nismo - 4 Reasons Why Its FWD & Front Engine
- Audi Will Withdraw From Endurance Racing To Concentrate On Formula E
- Carbon fibre's journey from racetrack to hatchback
- What's the Story? Exploring the peppermint stick and pickle snack from the South Side
- Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions in Overtime Dispute
- Microsoft is pulling the plug on Windows Vista, the operating system everybody loved to hate
- Salt Lake flood of 1983
- More cities swapping out sandbags with Muscle Wall
- McDonald's on anti-Trump tweet: Account was hacked
- VW Admits Tesla Model S Killed Off Next-Gen Phaeton
- Volkswagen Phaeton W-12 4MOTION

This time we talk about the Geneva Auto Show, blank books, pink water, Xaomi ham radios, RAMBO, a spider silk tie, Harbor Freight, Make Magazine, and John Conway's Game of life made into a clock.
Link to download this episode:

www.podomatic.com/podcasts/adventitious/episodes/2017-03-16T23_10_16-07_00

Links from this episode:

- Geneva Motor Show
- Lamborghini Huracan Performante's active aero is the secret to its speed
- Up close with Aston Martin’s Valkyrie, a hypercar fit for a Norse god
- Gallery 2018 Porsche 911 GT3
- The RUF Yellow Bird: The inside story on why it flies again
- Help the environment -- Buy a gas guzzler
- ‘Reasons to Vote for Democrats’ jumps to the top of Amazon’s bestseller list. But its pages are blank.
- Canada city's water turns bright pink after disinfecting agent seeps into water supply
- Move Over Baofeng, Xiaomi Want To Steal Your Thunder
- SpaceX Will Reuse A Rocket Booster For The First Time
- The US Army just 3D printed the ultimate weapon and called it RAMBO
- Synthetic Spider Silk for Sale in a $314 Necktie
- Don’t Hate on the Harbor Freight
- Make:
- Harbor Freight Tools
- A Brief Chat about Carbide Tooling
- John Conway's Game of Life
- A Clock Created with Conway’s Life

Scott Adams posted an interesting take on Global Warming.  We continue our discussion, though I doubt we have wrapped it up.

Link to download this episode:
www.podomatic.com/podcasts/adventitious/episodes/2017-03-13T22_19_35-07_00

Link to Part 1:
www.podomatic.com/podcasts/adventitious/episodes/2017-03-12T18_43_37-07_00

Links from this episode:

- How to Convince Skeptics that Climate Change is a Problem
- Hot Topic: Climate Change and Insurance
- Little Ice Age
- Medieval Warm Period
- London to produce its first organic wine since the middle ages
- The development of the atomic model
- The Inevitable Evolution of Bad Science
- Pascal's Wager about God
- Asteroid passed unusually close to Earth last week
- The Tunguska Impact--100 Years Later
- Not All Climatologists
- CLIMATE SCIENCE SURVEY (Study)
- IPCC Insider Rejects Global-Warming Report
- UN Scientists Who Have Turned on the UN IPCC & Man-Made Climate Fears — A Climate Depot Flashback Report
- 100th Anniversary of Water Chlorination
- Get politics out of climate debate: Opposing view
- The Great Collapse of the Carbon Trading Chicago Climate Exchange
- Clouds- The Wild Card of Climate Change
- Ice Core Data Help Solve a Global Warming Mystery
- Synchronous Change of Atmospheric CO2 and Antarctic Temperature During the Last Deglacial Warming
- Satellite & Balloon Climate Data Corroborates Slower Warming

Scott Adams posted an interesting take on Global Warming.  We take it on and discuss at length.

Links to this episode:

www.podomatic.com/podcasts/adventitious/episodes/2017-03-12T18_43_37-07_00

Links from this episode:

- Smog in the American West: Study shows Asia largely to blame
- How to Convince Skeptics that Climate Change is a Problem
- Particles Found to Travel Faster Than Speed of Light
- Once Again, Physicists Debunk Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos
- Climate Change Funding and Management
- Skeptical Climate Scientists Coming In From the Cold
- 1981 climate change predictions were eerily accurate
- Empty Space is NOT Empty
- Tucker vs. Bill Nye the Science Guy
- NASA.gov Q. Why use the adjusted rather than the "raw" data?
- A Top Climate Scientist Blows the Whistle on Shoddy Climate Science
- Cities tend to be warmer than rural areas
- Ocean Temperature
- Will Pacific Island Nations Disappear as Seas Rise? Maybe Not
- Small atoll islands may grow, not sink, as sea levels rise

Today we look at the Nokia 3310, Ham radios in space, Holographic 3D printing, the cost-benefit ratio of owning a 3D printer, ABS smoothing, Ford's friend with a death wish, and the nuts Colin Furze.
Link to download this episode:

www.podomatic.com/podcasts/adventitious/episodes/2017-03-09T19_40_34-08_00

Links from this episode:

- Hands on: New Nokia 3310 (2017) review
- SpaceX launch ham radio transceiver to ISS
- Hams in Space
- 3D Printing Using Holograms is Actually Printing in 3D
- Hackaday
- Ask Hackaday: Is Owning A 3D Printer Worth It?
- Introducing the MOD-t 3D Printer
- Digitally Hand Crafted
- Costco Photo Center
- Simple way to make ultra-smooth 3D prints at home
- Kickstarter: PolySmooth & Polysher: 3D Prints Without Layers
- Razor MX350 Dirt Rocket Electric Motocross Bike *
- ColinFurze YouTube Channel

We try Peeps and Peanutbutter Oreos, use Usenet as a backup, hash HTML5 and Flash, look at the Mythro Air, classify the Snuggie, lust after a Porsche shooting break, and want FM on our smartphones.

Link to download this episode:

www.podomatic.com/podcasts/adventitious/episodes/2017-03-05T21_00_17-08_00

Links from this episode:
- Oreo PEEPS Marshmallow Creme Sandwich Cookies, LIMITED EDITION 10.7 oz *
- Oreo Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookie, 15.25 oz *
- Bored with ho-hum cloud backups? Use Usenet (yes, Usenet!) instead
- Flash vs HTML5
- Puffin Web Browser (Not Parrot, which is what I called it. Sorry)
- Moshi Mythro Air Bluetooth In-Ear Earbuds - Gray *
- Samsung factory fire triggered by discarded batteries
- Survey: Customers lose confidence in Samsung after Galaxy Note 7 recall
- US court confirms Snuggies are blankets, not clothes
- Snuggies on Amazon *
- Why Toyota Only Sold One Prius in China Last December
- Here's the Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo In All Its Wagon Glory
- The FCC wants you to be able to listen to FM radio from your smartphone
- ActivateFMChip.com

This week we discovered why  windows drivers are dated 2006, talk SpaceX, discuss SETI, marvel at the planets of TRAPPIST-1, and talk about Russian smoke detectors of death.

Link to download this episode:

www.podomatic.com/podcasts/adventitious/episodes/2017-03-02T21_42_01-08_00

Links from this episode:
- Microsoft Explains Why Windows Drivers Are Dated June 21, 2006
- Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?
- SpaceX docks with space station on second try
- Elon Musk accuses the UAW of paying an employee to unionize Tesla
- SETI Institute
- Seti@home
- This Ain't Your Grandma's SETI
- NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single Star
- Soviet Era Smoke Detector Torn Down, Revealing Plutonium