January 2012
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As of today, finished two books equaling nearly 500 pages of non-academic paper text in my newfound free time. This would be more impressive if one wasn’t a book of quite funny extra-short stories and the another a lesser-known spy drama from a first rate mid-century mystery writer. Both equal light reading of the highest order. Someone is encouraging me to begin Moby Dick, but I’m not...
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BBC: Podcasts are more popular than ever →
jessethorn:
And they only keep growing.
You tell ‘em, Jesse!
Unfortunately, that video is all over the place until they get to Radiolab, a radio show which is also happens to be podcasted. And real great use of Beethoven to emphasize the… institutional prestige of Bush House.
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December 2011
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November 2011
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Wait Wait ...Don't Tell Me gets its own TV show! →
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analogplanets:
I maybe find this entirely too exciting.
“Wait Wait” creator Doug Berman says it would be a typical show, “except NPR has to add a budget line for pants.”
very awesome! [pics from Wait Wait in LA back in 2008]
The best news so far today.
Well, except for BBC America, rather than, say, PBS. But it means we’ve basically got a US version of The Big Fat...
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As in many an opera, the wounded hero took an unconscionable time to die.
– Addio, Silvio. Market panic has erupted as Silvio Berlusconi prepares to step down from government. Our briefing assesses the impact of his departure. (via theeconomist)
What very few have focused on is the sharecropper mentality with which...
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October 2011
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Sofia — IndieGoGo
My friend, the very talented young filmmaker Jean Claude Billmaier, is in the final 36 hours of funding for his newest short film, Sofia. It appears to be about a girl’s mysterious glowing box. I’m as curious as you are, of course.
[IndieGoGo is pretty cool, a nice alternative to Kickstarter, where if the campaign doesn’t reach its goal, they simply pay...
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