Hypercritical

Episode 52: 52: Marked for Deletion

January 27th, 2012  |  2 hrs 12 mins

Episode 51: 51: Unjustified Confidence

January 20th, 2012  |  1 hr 22 mins

Episode 50: 50: Maximum Deflection in All Directions

January 13th, 2012  |  1 hr 45 mins

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin revisit the world of console controllers, addressing the flood of listener feedback by expanding the discussion to include aftermarket and third-party controllers, and attempting to address the objections of PlayStation fans

Episode 49: 49: Pinching the Harmonica

January 6th, 2012  |  2 hrs 15 mins

Episode 48: 48: Blue Ocean

December 30th, 2011  |  2 hrs 3 mins

Episode 47: 47: Brute Force Attack

December 23rd, 2011  |  1 hr 38 mins

Episode 46: 46: Not Entirely Nefarious

December 16th, 2011  |  2 hrs 5 mins

Episode 45: 45: Star Wars is Not a Blog Post

December 9th, 2011  |  1 hr 47 mins

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin follow up on a host of topics: what ails Microsoft, the (slow, partial) democratization of corporate IT, the people vs. George Lucas, perpetual copyright, applications as art, Siri backlash, and the evils of Blu-ray.

Episode 44: 44: A Little Bit More Sad

November 25th, 2011  |  1 hr 11 mins

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk about what ails Microsoft. What could the former titan of the technology world have done differently in the past two decades that would have prevented its decline?

Episode 43: 43: The Scorpion and the Frog

November 18th, 2011  |  1 hr 42 mins

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin continue their discussion of Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of Steve Jobs, starting with listeners' reactions to the last episode, then (finally) talking about content from the book and the man himself.

Episode 42: 42: The Wrong Guy

November 11th, 2011  |  1 hr 15 mins

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of Steve Jobs (Part 1).

Episode 41: 41: The Homer

November 4th, 2011  |  1 hr 39 mins

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin are joined by special guest Jeff Atwood, cofounder of the Stack Exchange Q&A network and creator of the popular programming blog codinghorror.com. John and Jeff try to rekindle the old Mac vs. PC flames and end up talking a