Squirrel and Moose

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.

Dylan and Kyle talk about Kyle loving his girlfriend more than you, the listeners. They then dive into a discussion of conference Twitter streams, the division between the degreed and un-degreed user experience designer, and actual HTML and CSS discussion. Plus, why Whitney Hess hates Dylan, why Kyle loves John McLane, what actually happened to those 2007-era real estate agents, and our proposed Dylan Is Tired podcast goes over like a lead balloon.

Dylan and Kyle spend five seconds (and about 10 minutes more) getting irate about still another round of sexist in the web world, and then it's on to ranting about poor web content design in the form of Sites That Tell You Nothing About The Org They Represent. Also, Dylan has no idea what a class is in D&D, Kyle has microphone envy, pointless Download Our App screens, and lots of ranting. And maybe some actual web design discussion in there.

Kyle and Dylan talk about the Apple vs Amazon stock kerfuffle, the CES vs CBS kerfuffle, and the Forgot To Get A Guest Host kerfuffle. Plus: Whatever happened to TV shows having original music, what Facebook Graph Search says about our users, and what a corpse reviver does to your inhibitions.

Kyle and Dylan talk about Facebook's new Graph Search and phone service, plus a long rant by Dylan about the state of web accessibility. Also included: When will DC finally admit Aquaman is gay, the unbearable lightness of Hixie, a strange discussion of Oklahoma liquor laws, the animus towards the blind some designers seem to have, and we did mention Dylan rants in this one, right?

Dylan and Kyle talk about the decline and fall of CES, plus they rip into the idea of hustle being everything. Along the way, they talk the disappointment of flatscreen TV sales, Dylan's MUD board of twenty years ago, Kyle's experience with comic books, whether information architects are secretly out to get Dylan, how Superman's superpowers probably drove him to drink, and whether Freddie Mercury was really a superhero.

Kyle and Dylan review the year that was 2012, the travesty that was Earring Magic Ken, why a Lord Of The Rings toy would ship with three One Rings, why they don't like Ian Hickson (or understand him), why you should always bring the world's most powerful army to a gun fight, and Dylan's fear of the Information Architect's Union coming for him. Also, new year's resolutions we won't keep.

Dylan and Kyle have their first ever holiday special, featuring (a mention of) Bea Arthur and (a tangental reference to) Jefferson Starship! They deconstruct the monstrosity that was the Star Wars Holiday Special. Also, accepting Christmas as your personal holiday, whether the He-Man Christmas Special was worse than the Star Wars special, favorite Christmas movies and music, and their best movies and albums of 2012. And the world comes to an end. Maybe.

Kyle and Dylan discuss Kyle's trip to Hawaii, why Two Towel Nerdgasm is crushing them in the podcast ratings, the rebirth of Flickr (and the beauty of Cindy Li's design work), whether there's a filter to cover over how sad filters are, the latest Instagram dustup, and why investors are sticking with Twitter and whether they should.

Dylan and special guest Elaine Nelson discuss the fall and rise of the generalist, the power a specialist can bring to a web team, their love of Steve Krug's Rocket Surgery method of user testing, and the ugliness of Evergreen State College's campus.

Kyle and Dylan try to discuss their web workflows. Also, highlights of Kyle's trip to Seattle, Dylan is insistent on when Christmas really starts, Kyle rubs in his trip to Hawaii, and Dylan tries to sing Salt-N-Pepa.

Dylan and Kyle weren't going to spend much time on Andy Rutledge and his incessant trolling of sexism-related topics. Sadly, they did anyway. Also, Dylan's terrible faux Canadian accent, Kyle discusses our Dutch listener, the Mosaic generation tells off the Netscape generation, Statgirl corrects us again, and Dylan uses a NSFW word.

Kyle and Dylan go way overboard on how the Obama campaign's tech and big data superiority doomed the Romney campaign. But then they talk about Disney buying Lucasfilms like good geeks should. Also, how awesome (and bloody) a Tarantino-directed Star Wars 7 would be. And how a Wes Anderson-directed Star Wars wouldn't be.

Dylan and Kyle expend some skeuomorphic schadenfreude at Apple firing Scott Forstall, then discuss whether CSS/HTML design frameworks are wonderful tools to bootstrap sites or cheating design tools for design cheaters. Also, Dylan laughs for your Squoose soundboard, Statgirl corrects us, and Kyle admits he's a design hipster.

Kyle and Dylan talk about the new iPad Mini, Microsoft's new Surface, whether the end of Apple's dominance is in sight, whether Microsoft is making the right decision in embracing the tablet, and how responsive web design may be dead -- and what should rise in its place. All in one podcast. Actually. You know.