Posted in Audio, Disability, NPR on Jul 18th, 2011 3 Comments »
Tinnitus: Why Won’t My Ears Stop Ringing? NPR’s Nancy Shute describes tinnitus and the current state of work on getting rid of it. For the past eight months I’ve had ear problems that are similar although more vexing because various doctors can’t figure out what it is. One morning I woke up with an allergy-caused [...]
Posted in Audio, Creativity, NPR, Social Software on Jun 14th, 2011 No Comments »
Silk Road: Not Your Father’s Amazon.com Silk Road (anonymous marketplace), Tor (anonymity network), Bitcoin. If you’ve never heard of this stuff listen to this NPR: All Things Considered piece on Silk Road, an e-commerce site that sells cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and marijuana, among other illegal drugs. Rachel Martin interviews Adrian Chen, a Gawker staff writer. [...]
Posted in Audio, Ideas, NPR on Jun 12th, 2011 No Comments »
A Curious Case Of Foreign Accent Syndrome This is quite amazing. Listen to the piece, it will blow your mind. Karen Butler, an American with a “neutral” American accent had dental surgery and came out of it with a Scottish brogue. Listen to her answering machine message and her current accent. I heard this a [...]
Posted in Audio, NPR, Tech Stuff, Travel on Jun 8th, 2011 No Comments »
Leading The Charge To Make Better Electric Cars Fresh Air interviews science writer Seth Fletcher on electric cars, battery technology, lithium mining, and more. This is one of the best pieces on the electric vehicle movement I’ve ever heard. Seth is knowledgeable and articulate. Great stuff.
Posted in Audio, iPad, iPhone, Learning Disabilities, Reading on Jun 7th, 2011 1 Comment »
Apple updates iBooks app with ‘read aloud’ feature Help your children learn to read with the new read-aloud feature included in select children’s books from the iBookstore. The read-aloud feature uses a real narrator to read the book to you, and in some books, it will even highlight the words as you read along. This [...]
Posted in Apple, Audio, Creativity, Macintosh, NPR on May 17th, 2011 No Comments »
Malcolm Gladwell Looks at Technology Innovations Robert Siegel (All Things Considered) and Malcolm Gladwell look at the mythic story of how Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC in 1979 and came away with the basic ingredients of the Macintosh computer. This is a brief discussion of a piece Gladwell has in the May 16th issue of [...]
Posted in Audio, Ideas, NPR, People on May 16th, 2011 No Comments »
Homeboy Industries Give gang members a way out of trouble and into a job. Brilliant. NPR’s OnPoint is doing a show on the story of Homeboy Industries today at 11:00 am EST (audio posted later today). No doubt this model isn’t perfect but what model is? Father Greg Boyle is doing the hard work of [...]
Posted in Audio, NPR, People, Photography, Social Software on May 12th, 2011 2 Comments »
Separated By War, Reunited By The Web: Photo Project Links Holocaust Survivors A few days ago All Things Considered ran this piece by Claire O’Neill on how the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is using scanned images and social networking to connect children who survived the camps and have been attempting to find members of their [...]
Posted in Audio, NPR, Photographers, Photojournalism, Places, Stories on Apr 21st, 2011 No Comments »
Two War Photographers On Their Injuries, Ethics Fresh Air: Terry Gross interviews Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva, both seriously injured on assignment as combat photographers. This was a fascinating interview and an excellent update on Joao Silva who we’ve been following here since his injury.
Posted in Audio, NPR, Politics on Mar 30th, 2011 No Comments »
The Secret Bunker Congress Never Used This is a fascinating and well produced piece on a bunker in West Virginia that was built to house all members of Congress in the event of a nuclear war. Anne and I had the same thought: why not put Congress in the bunker now and seal it!
Posted in Audio, Gadgets, Ideas, Music, NPR, Tech Stuff on Mar 6th, 2011 5 Comments »
Whatever Happened To The Audiophile I have a dedicated two-channel listening room. My passion is for vacuum tubes and this set up consists of a KT88 based tube amp, tube preamp, tubed CD player, tubed digital-to-analog converter that is partnered with an iMac for digital files and wonderful pair of very efficient speakers. Power to [...]
Posted in Audio, NPR, People on Mar 4th, 2011 8 Comments »
Alice Cooper: The Gentle Man Behind The Shock Rocker Terry Gross is a genius and if you have any doubt, listen to her interview with Alice Cooper. Not my kind of music but my kind of interview.
Posted in Audio, Movies on Feb 23rd, 2011 2 Comments »
SoundWorks Collection: Gary Hecker – Veteran Foley Artist from Michael Coleman on Vimeo. A wonderful look at how a Foley artist works (including an explanation of what a Foley artist is). [via Kottke.org]
Posted in Audio, NPR, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Feb 6th, 2011 12 Comments »
My twitter contact John Connolly tweeted about miniRadio which is a nice little Mac OS X application that sits on the menubar for connecting with streaming radio broadcasts from a variety of sources from popular AM talk radio to BBC and NPR. John lives in the UK so the BBC is important to him. I [...]
Posted in Audio, Ideas, NPR, People, Social Software, Video on Jan 5th, 2011 4 Comments »
Can a viral video change a life? If you’re Ted Williams, a down-on-his-luck Ohio man with a voice tailor-made for radio, the answer is yes. After this video racked up millions of views in two days, job offers have started rolling in. Fantastic. This made my day. Week. Go Ted. Addendum: More including a great [...]
Posted in Apple, Art and Design, Audio, NPR, People on Dec 31st, 2010 2 Comments »
The Behind-The-Scenes Partnership At Apple Jonathan Ive and Steve Jobs have been working together since the first iMac and share an obsession with design details and user experience that I, for one, greatly appreciate. This is a very nicely done piece by Laura Sydell at NPR.
Posted in Audio, Opinion, People, Tech Stuff on Dec 26th, 2010 1 Comment »
Talking Tech and Building an Empire From Podcasts TWIT gets its name from Mr. Laporte’s flagship podcast, “This Week in Tech,” which is downloaded by a quarter of a million people each week. He produces 22 other technology-focused podcasts that are downloaded five million times a month. He also streams video all day long that [...]
Posted in Audio, People, Photographers, Slide Show on Dec 13th, 2010 No Comments »
Finding Inspiration with The Sartorialist I’ve been looking at Scott Schuman’s blog The Sartorialist for many years now and his narration of the NY Times slide show is inspirational and adds a lot to his already excellent photography.
Posted in Apple, Audio, NPR, People on Dec 12th, 2010 No Comments »
Steve Wozniak on Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! Wow, Woz was great on the show. What a terrific sense of humor he has.
Posted in Audio, Ideas, NPR, Places on Dec 10th, 2010 No Comments »
The Island of Stone Money Fascinating NPR Planet Money piece on the island of Yap in the Pacific and the evolution of their use of large stones as money.
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