Squirrel and Moose show

Squirrel and Moose

Summary: Famed web cartoonist Kyle Weems and far less famed web geek Dylan Wilbanks ramble their way through the world of web design, web development, user experience, the Internet, and whatever else they end up tripping over along the way.

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Podcasts:

 Dietary Restrictions | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:43

Kyle and Dylan go all stream of consciousness, hitting on the FirefoxOS phones and their hackability, a little more on DRM (this time in IE11), and cole slaw. And they probably drive off all their listeners with the diet discussions.

 First Day Of Summer | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 43:45

Dylan and Kyle talk the Microsoft about-face on XBox One and why DRM and HTML5 need to get over each other. Also: How many Daft Punks to make a Pearl Jam, de-rezzing your enemies, and Dylan doesn't listen to the podcast.

 Bachelor Chow | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 45:40

Kyle and Dylan talk about designers who complain about iOS 7, people who complain about designers who complain about iOS 7, and the Picard meme about people who complain about designers who complain about iOS 7. Also: Correcting the Apple taxation mistake, questioning whether table-cell is evil, and a whole bunch about PRISM.

 Squirreling Moose | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 47:00

Dylan and Kyle talk Apple (and Microsoft and Amazon) not paying their taxes and whether the shining tech future is turning profoundly dystopian. Plus: A pro-union attitude that will get them called communists, Kyle's next phone and whether it will be FirefoxOS, talking like airline pilots, the socioeconomic comparison between Silicon Valley and Puget Sound, and totally not sticking the landing at the end of the show.

 Choose GIF | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 41:52

Kyle and Dylan talk about the pronunciation of GIF and the announcement of the XBox One and its amazing spy technologies. Also: smelling what The Rock is cooking, hipster Tacoma peanut butter, Real Networks still exists, and Michael Bay's Little Women

 Working Blue | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 41:32

Dylan and Kyle talk about Adobe Creative Cloud, mostly, and also rejoice in the end of Fireworks. Also: Why Apple is getting their rear handed to them in the cloud, the remarkable pivot of Adobe away from Flash, the differences between buying and leasing, the British Columbia New Democrat Party, and swear words. And yes, Kyle still needs a decent mike.

 The API Episode | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 40:55

Kyle and Dylan have an extended ramble about rise-fall-rise of APIs and how their time may finally have come. Also: Why didn't XML's time come, why won't JavaScript's time ever pass, Dylan rips into the gold standard, Kyle wonders if there is still a tech giant we haven't offended, and our first foray into Google+ for making faces at each other over the Internet.

 Shameless Shilling | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 40:29

Dylan and Kyle talk about how they're going to find the money to get Kyle a better microphone. Then it's on to the rise and fall of user centered design and whether it's still valid or a concept that needs to die. Also: More commentary of a possible Squoose movie, whether a Wayans brother in a action movie signifies a lack of quality, just how many Wayans brothers there are, and the Four Squoose Laws.

 Grizzly Bears of Rhodesia | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 41:15

Kyle and Dylan have an open discussion of the pains of debugging code and the lack of permanence of online content. Also: Jeremy Keith hates Yahoo, the death of the news media, the Library of Alexandria, and Statgirl lets us down.

 You’re Managing Creatives, Charlie Brown | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:40

Dylan and Kyle talk through the Harvard Business Review commentator describing designers as creatives and how they shouldn’t be overpaid. Wacky hijinks ensue. Also, Kyle compares Dylan to Charlie Brown, Dylan imitates Marlin Perkins, how to correctly pronounce a dd in Welsh, and what kids in Tulsa watched on TV in 1979.

 Weeping Angels | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:04

Kyle and Dylan talk through the implications of Google's new Blink browser engine and what it means for the future of web standards. Also, a review of the Squeetup, a Joel Spolsky reference, and Dylan's exhaustion causing a few too many pregnant pauses.

 We Know You Al | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 40:36

Dylan and Kyle delve into Faruk Ates' idea of giving non-anonymous commenters priority in comment threads. Also, the forthcoming Squoose meetup, an in-passing X Files reference, Dylan and Kyle compare age of their oldest e-mail addresses, and almost no web content.

 Of Google And Men | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 43:10

Kyle and Dylan delve yet again into Yet Another Sexist Incident that ended with (almost) every party looking terrible, and then a long, rambling talk about the end of Google Reader and the Twilight Of The Web. Also, why there will never be another Jeffrey Zeldman, TV stations owned by flour mills, making AR-15 parts with 3D printers, raising girls to be programmers in a brogrammer world, and their inability to properly close out the episode.

 New Designers Of The Purple Sage | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 38:54

Dylan and Kyle delve into the limits of design knowledge and the perils and problems of learning to be a great designer. Plus: More SimCity denouement, when Pi Day happens in Europe, and what is it about minimalist designers hating color?

 Nitro Fuel Injected API 1.1 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 44:24

Kyle and Dylan try to run the new SimCity with no success, ask why EA and Twitter have descended into a cynical money-grab with their customers, and why we continue to hand money to companies like this. Also, Dylan practices for his future as a race track announcer, Kyle wishes he was at SXSW (until Dylan talks him out of it), and very little web content.

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