This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about fake faces, fake video calls, fake parking lots, fake bagpipes, fake lollipops, and fake gas leaks!

• Kobo Clara Color
  
• Libby
  
• Paperlike Screen Protector and Bumper Case
  
• Kindle Scribe
  
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
  
• Good-Bye to All That
  
• Kindle Unlimited
  
• Ghost Fleet
  
• D&G This Week in Mask Technology: Full-Face Masks to Frustrate Identification
  
• How a digital ‘you’ can sit through your agonizing web conference calls
  
  • Infinite Jest
    
• D&G This Week in Fluorescent Vests: Police flag Pittsburgh man for Steelers parking lot scam
  
  • Speaking of fluorescent vests: NYC Wants You to Stop Taking Traffic Cam Selfies, But Here's How to Do It Anyway
    
• This USB-C mouthpiece turns your phone into a musical instrument
  
  • Zamfir
    
• Licking this “lollipop” will let you taste virtual flavors
  
• Scratch And Sniff Stickers And The Gas Panic Of ’87
  
  • Order yours today: T!E Natural Gas Mercaptan Scratch and Sniff Stickers (Set of 30)

Cutting Room Floor

• Browse 64 Years of RadioShack Catalogs Free Online … and Revisit the History of American Consumer Electronics
  
• The Commodordion Gets A Big Usability Upgrade
  
• Tetris packed inside a PDF file to run in any PC browser — Pdftris runs from a 60KB PDF
  
• They've only gone and made Doom run in a PDF file
  
• Protect Your Site With A DOOM Captcha
  
• Minimal Linux OS runs in a 6MB PDF document in Chrome — LinuxPDF leverages RISC-V emulator

• @dgshowDotOrg!
• Cloud Player crushes YouTube Music
• Bitsbox
• You only need pen and paper to fool this OpenAI computer vision code. Just write down what you want it to see
• A world first: A robot able to "hear" through the ear of a locust
• The Smellicopter is an obstacle-avoiding drone that uses a live moth antenna to seek out smells
• Chef Boyardee Found His Start In Cleveland, Ohio… Then Became A Household Name

Cutting Room Floor

• COVID eyewear: Stylish and comfortable indoor and outdoor protection
  • The Black Hole (1979)
  • Airlines have strict mask policies. This NJ man got kicked off a United flight for wearing one
• Fisher-Price® My Home Office

We Give Thanks

• Erich Morisse for the Bitsbox!
• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• Texas Deep Freeze Apocalypse Watch
• Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Bitwarden Is Now the Best Free Alternative to LastPass
• Dave’s to-do list to review the state of to-do lists:
  • ✅ Remember the Milk
  • Google Tasks
  • ❓Todoist
    • todoist-shortcuts is a browser extension or greasemonkey script which adds a bunch of keyboard shortcuts to Todoist
• Human or GPT-2?
• Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You?
  • Bonus link: Deepfake Tom Cruise
• Protect your identity with generative media
• NextMind’s Dev Kit for mind-controlled computing offers a rare ‘wow’ factor in tech
• Researchers Control Monkeys' Decisions With Bursts of Ultrasonic Waves
• Utilizing an EEG to Track When Your Attention Drifts
• Vaccination vs. Immunization vs. Inoculation: What's the Difference?

Cutting Room Floor

• There are Sinks Designed Just for Vomiting Into
• Wearing Mask On Bottom of Chin Illusion (Multiple Skin Tones & Features)
• Pink Trombone
• Wild-Wacky-Cool: Vintage Snapshots of Men’s Hair Through the Ages

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• Apple M1 on the way
• Lockdown has affected your memory – here’s why
• Wearing someone else's face: Hyper-realistic masks to go on sale in Japan
• Get paid to have your face printed onto a creepy, super realistic mask
• Maskalike: Your face on an N95 mask for $30
• Freak Masks: Scare everyone for only $19
• Billion Dollar Burger: Inside Big Tech's Race for the Future of Food
• Steaks Grown From Human Cells Spark Interest and Outrage
  • Ourochef meal kit
• paint.wtf: Convince an AI that you're the best artist
• Watch Out for Fake COVID-19 Testing Sites

Cutting Room Floor

• Cheese-Filtered Cigarettes
• Edible (chocolate) phonograph records
• The Mouth-Watering World Of NIST Standard Foods

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!

• Sole F80 Treadmill
• Couch to 5k
• The Great Influenza
• Covering Covid: Backlash (not a 99% Invisible episode as Gunnar claimed, but Masking for a Friend is a 99% Invisible episode, and a great second choice on the topic of masks)
• IRK-2 Infrared Thermometer (ships with a free packet of Jelly Bellies!)
• Israeli Inventors Have Developed A Coronavirus Mask With A Remote Control Mouth That Lets Diners Eat Food Without Taking It Off
  • Señor Wences
  • Brooks Brothers masks
• HT Johannes Swanepoel: Robot reminds visitors of safe distancing measures in Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park
• Zoom Acquires Keybase and Announces Goal of Developing the Most Broadly Used Enterprise End-to-End Encryption Offering
• Exclusive: Zoom Plans to Roll Out Strong Encryption for Paying Customers
• Hotel thieves aren’t stealing toiletries – but framed art, TVs, a fireplace

Cutting Room Floor

• This MP Does Not Exist
• This Word Does Not Exist
• Deep fake cartoon voices
• The Notorious B.I.G. raps "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General" (Speech Synthesis)
• Gilbert Gottfried reads the Book of Genesis (Speech Synthesis)
• Saudi menu

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!
• Johannes Swanepoel for the robocop dog report!

• Train to Busan
• Parasite
• Kingdom: Walking Dead meets Game of Thrones, with bonus class war
• Gunnar on masks
  • Masks as a medical tool
    • For others, not for you
    • Blue shop towels, layers of tissue
  • Masks as a social tool
    • Signaling value
    • Taking care of each other
  • The psychology of masks
    • The other
    • Race
    • Feeling of safety
  • Shopping
    • Etsy
    • Origami masks
    • Cthulhu leather face mask
• Colornames.org
  • Vote here: https://colornames.org/fresh/
• This Open-Source Program Deepfakes You During Zoom Meetings, in Real Time

Cutting Room Floor

• Star Trek The Next Generation Crew Sing "All Star" by Smash Mouth
• Grassman, Mothman, and Ohio’s Other Mythical Creatures Are On Display at the Rutherford B. Hayes Museum
• Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Quarantines, 2020

We Give Thanks

• The D&G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!