While listening to “Books That Die,” the last story in the Nov. 27 episode of NPR’s “On The Media,” Kerry laughed, and said it sounded like a Ken Burns documentary. So I turned it into one. Brooke Gladstone’s “The Civil (Book) War” from Radio Sweethearts on Vimeo. I just downloaded the audio, and threw some [...]
Let the record state that October 30, 2009, is the day that the Cosby sweater began to unravel, stitch by stitch, slowly unveiling the post-apocalyptic, Charlton Hestonian dystopia that is: COMPUTERWORLD. At least in Bob Garfield’s head. In the middle of an otherwise sane conversation about computer programs that construct news stories as search engine [...]
Interesting stuff on this week’s recap – namely the technical glitch that made this post a day late: The fact that I forgot to hit “publish.” So I’m taking this opportunity to rework it. For no particular reason. It happens. I’ve been feeling way under the weather, Kerry’s been out of town, I fell asleep [...]
Sometimes, when you’re trying to blog regularly, and it’s your night to post, life steps in the way. It’s occasionally more important to make a mix tape for your wife than to write a post. And then when you go back to write the post, you don’t care to put any effort into it. This, [...]
This week’s “On the Media” is a collection of the show’s commentary on how the Internet is changing the ways we communicate. Which, you might think, would result in a recap made from a collection of our commentary on how Bob Garfield doesn’t get it, and how Brooke Gladstone does. That wouldn’t be wrong, if [...]
The Honky Tonk Stomp, Tennessee’s Roller Derby State Championship has taken up our entire weekend (and a chunk of the last week, too). We might not recap tonight, and this is why. Kerry skates in two of the exhibiton mini-bouts today – beanpoles vs. dumptrucks (already happened; beanpoles won, with Kerry’s help) and in new [...]
We’re about two weeks into being homeowners, and we’re still without internet at home. Sort of. Right now, I’ve got myself tucked away in a corner, sniffing out whatever dregs of internet seep out unprotected from the neighbors’ houses. We’ve been trying to unpack, but the thing is, most of our boxes are packed tigher [...]
OTM Recap: Out of my brain on the 5:15 from Radio Sweethearts on Vimeo. In this post I mention the story about Wolfram Alpha. Here’s that link. It’s not too often I’ll be doing this, as my current computer is way slower than Kerry’s, and lacks a built-in camera. Have a good week.
Okay, so swine flu can kill people and it can be transmitted from human to human. I’m not seeing how that’s any different from any other flu, except that this is somewhat unseasonable.
Brooke Gladstone opens up this week’s “On the Media” with the following lines: You know, most weeks, we could say something about Fox News (like Bill O’Reilly’s show stalking critics with camera crews, for example), but usually we don’t. Partly because Fox News won’t talk to us, partly because – well – it gets boring.
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