This week's episode of Escape Pod features the short "Ulla" by Daniel Schwabauer, and it's totally awesome. It uses the trope of retelling a classic story from the villain's point of view to stunning effect, in part because it also employs a separate and quite unexpected narrative convention that I won't spoil for you. The reading is very well done ( Read more... )

Anyone local have an old iPod they want to foist off on me for some reasonable price?

I am half-considering bopping down to the Galleria and getting myself an Xmas prezzie of a "real" iPod today, to replace the Shuffle that I guess colorwheel ate. I don't think I need a Video.

I am missing so many podcasts! Argh

Is it wrong for me to like James Lileks' stuff again? After it earned a rec-in-passing from a reality-based podcast that I enjoy, I subscribed to The Diner, and... it's great. His warm and funny writing style mixed wonderfully with mid-20th century audio ephemera, which I (much like you) am a sucker for ( Read more... )

I've launched a new video podcast, Jmac's Arcade, or "My Life as a Series of Video Games". My name is in the title because it's deeply personal even though it's ostensibly about video games. I think it is very different than other game podcasts.

Google video, downloads, iTunes subscription links, and all the usual fixins on its homepage. It's also ( Read more... )

Am supposed to be starting to attend to my end of the revenue model implementation now, but wound up spending the afternoon fixing a hairy problem in the Perl libraries that has hung up another Volity hacker, a fellow chugging along with a Hearts implementation. It was a conscious decision: getting developers psyched is a top priority for us, and ( Read more... )

This week's Theory of Everything is all about Philip K. Dick. Host Benjamin Walker gets a Ubik tattoo, and then phones someone else with a Ubik tattoo. Then PKD practices a speech for people who have Ubik tattoos.

misuba has posted his interview of the Andys and me. (He also interviewed some other folks at Origins.)

Escape Pod is now airing, with subsequent shows, the nominees for the 2006 short-story Hugo. I think this is great. He's done two stories so far, and as always you can listen to them as you like for nuttin.

So far Steve's aired Tk'tk'tk by David D. Levine, which I liked, and Seventy-Five Years by Michael A. Burstein, which I couldn't get five ( Read more... )

BoardGameSpeak is back, more or less. They posted a brand-new show a few weeks ago, but didn't explain where they'd been since last fall, and have posted a year-old misplaced recording since then ( Read more... )

A newish podcast I have come across is Benjamen Walker's Theory of Eveything. Short, weekly bits and pieces that this guy and his friends find interesting. So far I'm right there with them. I have downloaded all the shows currently available through iTunes, which only span a couple of months though apparently he's been doing this on the radio for ( Read more... )