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This episode marks three years of Zen is Stupid, and that seems like as good a place as any to have our curtain call.  Everything must end!

We’ll keep the episodes up here as a bumbling testimony to the power of friendship and zen.

(And if you want to give us a little bump in funding for our project to inscribe every episode on brass plates and shoot it into space for aliens to find in the distant future, hit that donate button!)

Thanks for the good times.  Leave a parting comment below!
Links mentioned:

• Our favorite episodes from way back:

The first episode.

Anger

Koans

Zazen

Vegetarians

Music

Kids

Power

Corporate Evil

•  We’re NOT crying! 

• Our new podcast will be at The Mindfulist.  Search it out on Itunes or get it directly from the site.  Carry on!

Thinking about the end of the world will teach you a lot about yourself.

Links mentioned:

• Svalbard Seed bank.

• Idiocracy, one of our favorites.

• 2012

• The Road

(By the way, don’t mixup two movies, it’s very confusing for the person you’re talking to)

• Gwen writes more about death and dying here.

This podcast is about having affairs.  And having an affair is about craving.  We hash it out.  Plus, Patrick gets preachy!

Links mentioned:

• “Life is short, have an affair!” Commercial.  For those of you playing along at home

• An interview with the founder of the infidelty match-up site.

• The Vanity Fair article about the type of men who cheat.

Patrick’s had evolution on the brain ever since he started writing his new book about the modern humans odd position of sitting in front of screens all day.  One thing leads to another and soon enough Gwen’s teaching him how to pitch it better.  Zany!

Links mentioned:

• Ooh look bugs ate my monstera plant.  Oh wait NO THEY DIDN’T!!!

• The Knowledge Workers Survivor Guide.  On sale now.  Pick up a copy for you or anyone else who’s feeling the onset of hacker back.  Heal your body, and support Patrick.

• If you want to put the Knowledge Workers Survival Guide radio “ad” in front of your project, you can download it here.

Books mentioned:

• The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins.  Read it if you want to get a better idea of how you got here.

We all dream of a life of leisure.  But what happens when you actually get it?

Links mentioned:

• Gwen’s post on Costa Rican life.

It’s a new year, and we think about all the ways people try to improve themselves with the latest gadgetry.  Plus, optometrist shop lady storytime!

Links mentioned:

• Find out why Chinese restaurant buddhas are all fat.

A meandering stroll through what it means to give something a name and the possibilities of changing that name.

 Links mentioned:

• A list of celebrities’ real names.

• Find out the history of your name.

• What the Buck!

• Tibetan Names.  The tag line for this site is “Tibetan names for your dog, horse, cat, pet or child!”

• Some designers react to the new Aol logo.

The end of the year brings about a torrent of “best of lists.”   We think about the yearly ritual of choosing what was best and worst in a given orbit of the sun.

Links mentioned:

• Gwen’s Best 09 Challenge.  Here’s the help page.  Start today!  If it’s not December when you’re reading this, start next time it rolls around!

• The Psychology Today article that asks are you living in the past, present, or future?

• The Atlantic article on Happiness.

• The reality of I Gotta Feeling

Getting down in the gritty details of some of the novel issues brought up by new media.  Your grandparents can’t give you any advice on this stuff, these problems have only been around for a couple of years!

Links mentioned:

• Yo yo check out Patrick Reynolds’s star turn as the freakin Mandroid in 1986’s classic, The Eliminators.

• What those profile pics might mean.