Episode 376: Alexa, Light It Up!

Discussed: lame patents, Salvador Dalí, allergy season, backpack discrimination, friend cosplay, things Dan can't say, AT&T woes, Merlin saw a bear, a YouTube rabbit hole, and some excellent historical Disney content.

Dan and Merlin answer a listen's questions about sleep tracking and leveraging Alexa at the office.

Links for this episode:

• Ungainly X-Mann Meetup #22 — Merlin Mann
  MERLIN MANN (Back to Work, Roderick on the Line, Reconcilable Differences, Do By Friday, You Look Nice Today, et al.) invites you to drop by Two Cats Comics on the evening of Thursday, May 17th to hang out, talk about comics, and just say, “Hi.” It's free and it's fun.
  
• Vintage Disneyland Tickets: The Disney Look - 1977
  
• Custom Alexa responses can now be created right from the Alexa app | AFTVnews
  Alexa Routines are a powerful feature that allow you to automate a series of customizable actions using a single voice command of your choice. So when you say “Alexa, I’m leaving,” for example, you can have multiple actions occur, such as turning off all of your smart lights and setting a specific temperature on your thermostat.
  
• Defunctland - YouTube - YouTube
  
• Defunctland: The Failure of Euro Disneyland - YouTube
  
• Defunctland: The History of Disney's Worst Attraction Ever, Superstar Limo - YouTube
  
• Supreme Court declines to hear “podcasting patent” case, handing win to EFF | Ars Technica
  
• US8112504B2 - System for disseminating media content representing episodes in a serialized sequence - Google Patents
  
• CNN on Twitter: "Watch clouds of pollen rise from a shaken tree in Millville, New Jersey https://t.co/MeFOyzg7LW… "
  
• Bohemian Rhapsody | Teaser Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX - YouTube
  
• Here's How to Set Up Amazon Alexa Routines on your Echo Device | Digital Trends
  
• How to Create an Alexa Smart Home Routine
  
• Since You've Been Gone - YouTube - YouTube
  

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