As this goes to press, I just finished listening to an episode of the “Planet Money” podcast, an impromptu daily show that NPR has cooked up in the past few weeks solely to offer in depth coverage of the financial crisis. And also, one of my few remaining “guilty pleasures” from the broadcast media, This [...]
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Posted in audio, politics on Jun 10th, 2007
Ivan Eland, of “The Emperor has no clothes” fame, sits down for a chat with Scott Horton. Taking on what seems to me to big “elephant on the room” of US policy, namely nuclear armed, unstable Pakistan, Eland here convincingly refutes the conventional wisdom that the US has no choice but to offer unconditional [...]
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Posted in audio, economics, energy, media, politics on May 18th, 2007
One of the very few I’ve heard who really put it all together. All except the energy/environmental situation, which would only add urgency to his message, but then, no one person can be a universal scholar anymore. The reason it would have fit well into this interview is that, according to much of [...]
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Posted in Mac, audio, computing on May 16th, 2007
General request to megamachanics (readers of this blog):
Have any of you opinions on freeware or shareware audio programs for the Mac (or Linux ones which can be ported to Mac Os X 10.4 Intel)?
Disederata (desired functionality): capturing audio streams to .mp3 files, turning microphone input into .mp3 files, converting any formats (.ogg for instance) to [...]
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