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#morning light at last

Podcast List 4mar13

I prefer to timeshift these to the middle of the bloody night…!

I have finally succeeded in unlinking my podcasts from iTunes, using the excellent Downcast app.  Downcast does what I always needed iTunes to do: properly sync between the iPhone and the iPad and remember what I’m doing.  So now I’m all set.

I will say, though, that the discovery process isn’t quite as good on Downcast.  Not enough categories.

I always wanted BERG to do a podcast.  They could have called it BERG Longwave, and ended it with a version of The Shipping Forecast, only in Shoreditch, and with pubs.

This is the current list.  It’s getting edited through over the next few days.

Feel free to send me recommendations, based on the below list, @warrenellis.  I mean, if anyone’s awake at this hour.  I’m not.  This is firing while I am sleeping the sleep of the virtuous.*

The Digital Human – http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01h8nnt  tech culture

The Cargo Culte Audio Field Report – http://thecargocultepodcast.blogspot.com music

Stone Pages Archaeo News – http://www.stonepages.com/news/ history

Start the Week with Andrew Marr – http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/starttheweek.shtml news/politics

Rare Frequency Podcast – http://www.rarefrequency.com/ – music

Psychedelic Salon – http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon/ – fringe culture

Philosophy Now – http://philosophynow.org/podcasts culture

Monocle — Affairs-  http://monocle.com – news/politics culture

KEXP Song of the Day – http://feeds.kexp.org/kexp/songoftheday – music

In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg – http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl history

Great Lives – http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/greatlives history

dublab mp3 blog – http://dublab.com/mp3-blog music

Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History – http://www.dancarlin.com history

Broken20 -  http://www.broken20.com music

Avant-Avant – a curated musical selection – http://avant-avant.net music

At Water’s Edge – http://atwatersedge.fm music

Arctic Circle Radio – http://www.jointhecircle.net music

Analysis – http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006r4vz news/politics

#informationdiet

* Shut up.

Bookmarks for 2013-03-01

How the British Gov’t Stripped Alleged Militants of Citizenship before they were Droned to Death | Informed Comment
"The government has secretly ramped up a controversial programme that strips people of their British citizenship on national security grounds – two of whom have been subsequently killed by US drone attacks."
(tags:pol war drones )
Stretchable Batteries Could Power Devices Embedded In The Body [Video] – ReadWrite

(tags:energy tech bodymod )
Connbox: prototyping a physical product for video presence with Google Creative Lab, 2011 – Blog – BERG
video calling as "always-on, ambient, background presence." I love it when BERG do these breakdowns.
(tags:berg design tech )
New Book Suggests Return from Death Possible : Discovery News
“Although most people think this takes place in only four or five minutes, we now know that actually brain cells are viable for up to eight hours … We now understand that it’s only after a person has turned into a corpse that their cells are undergoing death, and if we therefore manipulate those processes, we can restart the heart and bring a person back to life.”
(tags:med )

Received Goods: MIRO Notebooks

Sent to me for review by MIRO themselves, because, I suspect, it’s well known that I go through a lot of notebooks.  Their new line comes in two flavours – Wood, on the far left and right, and Felt, in the middle.  The wood covers, while thin and flexible, feel fairly robust, though I confess I don’t want to test them to destruction, as they are quite beautiful.

These arrived today, and just in time.  There are some projects that I prefer to work out in a larger notebook, and a couple of those projects just surfaced.  So at least one of these books (or, at least, one of the two I have left after my daughter steals two) will be immediately pressed into service.  And, therefore, I’ll be writing at a later date about how well they hold up.

You can find them at remembermiro.com or @remembermiro.

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A Conference With Me At The WELL

It runs for, I think, another eight days or so.  This is the link.

 

…a novel’s a novel, regardless of how it’s displayed.  I don’t think about the container at all.  It’s words on a surface.  Digital doesn’t actually change that.  The only real changes digital have brought, as far as I’m concerned, are delivery speed and the ability to lift three Neal Stephenson novels at once.

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Am maybe slightly hungover this #morning

Bookmarks for 2013-02-27

Japan robot suit gets global safety certificate
"A robot suit that can help the elderly or disabled get around was given its global safety certificate in Japan on Wednesday, paving the way for its worldwide rollout."
(tags:robots med bodymod )
Wow
"Evidence exists that a large natural nuclear reactor formed and operated on Mars in the northern Mare Acidalium region of Mars"
(tags:space )