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title: "Quick, like a bunny"
date: 2005-03-04T14:56:44-05:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2005/03/04/quick-like-a-bunny/
author: Les Orchard
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# Quick, like a bunny

* I'm not supposed to [link to this column by Bill O'Reilly][bor]--[here's why.][borwhy]

[borwhy]:http://stayfree.typepad.com/stayfree/2005/03/bill_oreilly_is.html
[bor]:http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2005/02/27/news/opinion/edit07.txt

* Today's earworm: [Scent of a Robot][robot]

[robot]:http://www.uvphactory.com/Portfolio/robot/

* First, The Gates.  Now, [The Crackers][crackers].

[crackers]:http://www.littlefuckingrayofsunshine.com/2005/02/20/the_crackers/

* About Podcasts, [Bill Seitz rants][brant]: 

  > alternative idea for filling your dead passive-listening time - have software to generate speech from RSS and make that into an MP3 file

  This makes me giggle because, well, it's one of the hacks I wrote up for my book, last week.  I probably need to edit things, but I hope the goofiness and sheer hack value comes through. 
  
* Speaking of Podcasts:  Check out the [Battlestar Galactica Podcast][bgal].  It's like getting the DVD commentary track, but about a year early.  Finally, my hunch is confirmed that Battlestar Galactica's opening sequence with episode preview is "an homage to Space 1999".

[bgal]:http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/  
  
* Lately, my favorite thing to toss back at Podcast naysayers: Dismissing Podcasts because of issues of quality or amateurism is like dismissing eBay because people try [selling their used sneakers][sneakers] there.

[sneakers]:http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=63889&item=5367710154&rd=1

  Meanwhile, I've just about got a full commute to and from work filled with pretty good quality content--or at least decently entertaining content (to me)--to the point that I've almost stopped listening to NPR.  Also, it's becoming a rapidly heating issue at work--not sure if it will go where I hope it does, but I've started getting drafted to educate some co-workers in other departments.
  
[brant]:http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/z2005-03-03-PodcastRant/

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            <div class="content">I haven't been able to find much in the way of podcasts that I enjoy nearly as much as National Public Radio from end to end.  But I really like the other aspects of podcasting: timeshifting, listen anywhere you have your iPod, etc.

So, I created an application to help me listen to NPR on my iPod.  Let me know what you think.  I have the initial exploratory announcement on my website ->  http://cleverdevil.org</div>
            
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