I've more or less stopped following the news. A couple of weeks ago I unsubscribed from NPR's daily five-minute news-summary podcast, after four years of listening, and that basically severed me from the world of regular general-interest updates. Through the internet, and through internet-enabled friends, I find that most things I care about will ( Read more... )

For some reason it never occurred to me to try using my iPhone's iPod app without headphones plugged in. I was momentarily mystified this morning when I didn't plug em in all the way, making my Tuesday-morning dose of Dan Savage play out of the device in my hand rather than into my ears ( Read more... )

By the way, NPR's Planet Money podcast has really hit the ground running. They've been publishing multiple episodes per day (at least on weekdays) as things develop, and interviewing all sorts of interesting people across a broad spectrum.

If you want to become at least as angry well-informed as me about this, I encourage you to subscribe.

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Adapted from a comment I just left in colorwheel's LJ, but which more of y'all may be interested in:

NPR just launched a new blog-n-podcast called Planet Money whose topic is what you'd expect. I find it strangely reassuring that they figure that now's as good a time to launch the thing as any, what with all the everything going on ( Read more... )

I totally just heard a letter from lediva read aloud by Brooke Gladstone on On the Media. (Unless it was someone else with her name who also likes comics, video games, and NPR podcasts.)

I am loving StarShip Sofa, a new (recently re-launched, actually) SF audio magazine-format podcast. Its first issue features "Likely Lad", a wonderfully fun info-pirate adventure tale by Kage Baker, with an amazingly good reader. I am grinning like a maniac while walking around listening to it ( Read more... )

I am listening to an audio version of James Patrick Kelly's Burn. It's a really nice story so far, and I'll go ahead and make a premature recommend if you wish to risk it turning emabrrassingly horrible halfway through. I don't think it will, though; I've also enjoyed the other Kelly I've read, and trust him ( Read more... )

I got my first more-or-less Jmac's Arcade fan mail today from the fellow behind a video podcast called Coin-Op TV. I've so far only watched the most recent episode, which features interviews with stuntmen and T-shirt vendors at a J-pop convention. Scrolling down the page I see a lot of more game-related stuff, though. Wow, there's an interview with ( Read more... )

Why didn't I know that there was an embedded This American Life reporter within Dr. Awkward, the team that won this year's mystery hunt ( Read more... )

James Baker has the same accent as Wichita Rutherford('s assumedly exaggerated stage accent). I do not know what this accent is called.