Just saw on Ars Technica that This American Life has come out with an iPhone app. I for one being a huge fan couldn’t be happier – why you ask? Well the current podcasts are great, but often times when driving on a road trip I’d love to catch up on some older episodes, can’t [...]
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Lou Dobbs, the longtime CNN anchor whose anti-immigration views have made him a TV lightning rod, said Wednesday that he is leaving the cable news channel effective immediately.
via Update: Lou Dobbs to Quit CNN – Media Decoder Blog – NYTimes.com.
I’ve got to admit I’ve given up on almost any TV news, probably the best reporting [...]
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While I might not be a huge fan of Fox News (or fan at all), I think I going to be happy with the move of Champions League Football from ESPN to Fox Soccer Channel this year. ESPN never made the tournament a priority, didn’t work to get an HD feed even when showing it [...]
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While lying in bed sick over the weekend I caught up on some Real Time with Bill Maher (via the podcast as I don’t have HBO) the show translates quiet well to an only audio experience and I applaud HBO for putting out the full show as a podcast. Anyway in his closing bit, ‘new [...]
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Host Ira Glass speaks with Harold Wilshinsky about a piece of advice he gave to his daughter and son-in-law over 15 years ago: take your money out of the hands of Bernie Madoff, and diversify. Reluctantly, they listened to Harold, even though his son-in-law’s family was making a fortune investing with Madoff. But as history [...]
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The Telegraph is one of the newspapers that I regularly read (although admittedly mostly for football stories) one of my favorite sections is called “Sign Language” and consists of funny signs from the UK and around the world…one such example below.
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Guess it should come as no surprise, papers were suffering before the downturn in the economy, but its still sad to see.
“The Dispatch is reducing the size of its newsroom, laying off 45 people effective on April 3, management of the newspaper announced today.”
via The Columbus Dispatch : ‘Dispatch’ announces 45 layoffs on editorial staff.
Made [...]
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I might not have mentioned the Wire on here in a long time, probably haven’t thought about it as often as I used to. So it came as a bit of a surprise a week or two ago I got a late night phone call from a friend of mine, who after having just a [...]
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On the grounds between the two brick colleges, the chitchat between the scion of four-star admirals and the son of a prizefighter turns to their academic travels; both colleges sponsor a trip abroad for young officers to network with military and political leaders in a distant corner of the globe.
“I’m going to the Middle East,” [...]
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An interesting article in The Nation that follows John McCain’s efforts to keep information concerning POWs that were left behind in Vietnam from reaching the light of day. The information concerns among other issues the fact that the US may have hundreds of POWs behind in Vietnam who were likely eventually executed as both the [...]
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