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Apparently, when Stan first wrote the Fantastic Four, he took this even a step further by having them look & dress like normal people. None of this spandex crap -- if Stan's heroes are going to act like regular folks, then they should dress the part too.

The fan reaction was awful. "Stan, we love the story, the characters are great, but why don't they have uniforms? if you don't fix that we're not gonna buy another issue..."

And so, being a practical man, he "fixed" the problem. For decades now, he has continued to put his soap opera stories -- "soap opera" being his term from the radio interview, not mine -- in their spandex jumpsuits, even if it looks silly. He's never been able to explain why, but any attempt to buck the convention has always been a dismal failure. Go figure.

Like Stan Lee, George Lucas also has to pay the bills. Granted, I don't think he's about to default on his mortgage or anything, but like you say, it's all about giving the audience what they want to see. Is it a distraction from how the story "should" be told? Possibly, but this is a highly commercial artform, and the minute it stops playing to the audience the show draws to a close.

Speaking of tinkering with the audience's expectations, I can't wait until the next James Bond movie :-) :-) :-)

NPR recently had a segment on satellite radio which compares XM and Sirius in some detail. If you're in the market, check it out.

NPR recently had a segment on satellite radio which compares XM and Sirius in some detail. If you're in the market, check it out.

I really enjoyed "Take the Canoli", but as good as Sarah's writing is, it's even better to hear her read her work. Try to catch her on This American Life or somewhere else on NPR.

yes, very shiny carbon...

[make sure to read the 3rd to the last paragraph about costco!!]

you can listen to it Here.

the part the above poster mentioned is around the 25 minute mark.

woo hoo! glad that here in LA the 'left-wing masses' have a few more choices which, fortunately, rarely play The Cure.

KPFK a pacifica station. they don't take any corporate funding and are completely free from the government (uh, except for the FCC)

KXLU which is a decent good college radio station

KILL! (corporate) RADIO well, it's web only but it's a cool project started by the LA Independent Media Center and RE:Generation TV. very 'college radio' style but has some great shows (and they occasionally play the cure)

KCRW the NPR/PRI station with some good shows (chocolate city!) but mostly i don't like the music. but at least i can agree with the format...

but that doesn't mean that i won't complain about radio here -- community radio licenses are not available here as they are in some other cities. community radio licenses were to enable underserved communities the ability to broadcast using a 10 to 100 watt transmitter. it was strongly opposed by NPR (of course, it would be a strong alternative)

and the LA 'hip hop' stations plays only gangsta rap -- there is A LOT of good hip hop and rap out there (well, i like it) that doesn't have anything to do with benzes, ho's, or fo'ties.

We have this too: National People's Radio. It's a command system, ruled by the government even though they only have a 10% stake. The only problem is that in order to be alternative there needs to be diversity--and only in large cities is there market enough for public radio stations to do anything than run "Talk of the Nation" all day long, which is just NPR trying to compete with AM radio. So what you have is this:

The unwashed masses listen to pablum.

The right-wing masses listen to AM radio and country music stations.

The monied left-wingers listen to NPR.

The monied right-wingers listen to NPR and complain about the slant.

The left-wing masses (college students who wear black and listen to the Cure) listen to College Radio and bitch about how the man is opressing them by playing Meat Beat Manifesto instead of the Cure.

And guess what? It's been like this for years and CC's ownership has been a marginal change at most.

Check out the interview with Director, co-writer Stacy Peralta on NPR here....

There's an audio version (in RealMedia) at http://www.npr.org/me3.smil.

Haven't found the quote yet, and I'm about halfway through.

Transcripts (via e-mail) are $18.00. Seems a bit much.

That'd be hilarious, but with how much CBS freaked (warning: realmedia) about the song I doubt ECC would risk it.

NPR has posted a RealAudio interview with George Lucas and a review by LA Times critic Kenneth Turan (Kenneth, what is the frequency?)
Bottom line . . . Spider-Man is a good movie.

They don't have the full story on NPR.org, but here's the lowdown:

'Attack of the Clones' Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan has seen the new Star Wars movie, Attack of the Clones, but he wishes he hadn't. He says some things are better the first time around and don't need an encore. Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones opens in select theaters nationwide at midnight. (3:25)

sometimes it is

This was also featured on Talk of the Nation on NPR last week. It is worth a listen.

On April 25, All Things Considered on NPR did a five-minute story on this new Science article. Highly recommended, gives some good background not only on how this theory fits better with some of the current data that we are collecting, but also talks about how difficult it is for a new theory to gain acceptance in the scientific community when it flies in the face of a long-established theory.

On April 25, All Things Considered on NPR did a five-minute story on this new Science article. Highly recommended, gives some good background not only on how this theory fits better with some of the current data that we are collecting, but also talks about how difficult it is for a new theory to gain acceptance in the scientific community when it flies in the face of a long-established theory.

On April 25, All Things Considered on NPR did a five-minute story on this new Science article. Highly recommended, gives some good background not only on how this theory fits better with some of the current data that we are collecting, but also talks about how difficult it is for a new theory to gain acceptance in the scientific community when it flies in the face of a long-established theory.

Here is a link to the interview in RealAudio format.

the show ended at 4 pm, but you can usually get the archived version directly at NPR: Talk of the Nation.

according to the web site: The audio for this program will be available online after 6PM ET, 3PM PT.

-rp

Researchers at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory are working to create robots as intelligent and as sociable as humans are. At the same time, medical advances are making humans more robot-like, with mechanical hearts and artificial limbs. Join the show in its second hour for a look at the relationship between humans and machines.

Because they too are interested in accumulating Intellectual Property and selling it, and presumably RA assists in that more than MP3's would.

I seriously don't understand why virtually all of NPR's (National Public Radio's) online stuff is real audio encoded. I mean, wouldn't .mp3 (or .ogg?) encoding be cheaper and enable a wider variety of players?

The real problem with privacy legislation is that the law needs to define clearly something that is very context-sensitive and subjective.

More amusing and insightful than informative, NPR's David Weinberger a week or so ago ran this commentary about how as a digital society we are losing the subtle art of determining the context of information.

In case the link gets /.ed, the fundamental points are these:

• The privacy of pretty much all information is context-sensitive.
• We use body language, visual and voice cues to indicate whether people should pursue certain lines of questioning or not, or whether something they overheard should be considered private, whether it was said in a public place or not.
• Digital communication eliminates these subtle "real world" variables, so it's much more difficult to define what is private and what is not.
• As a result, as a society we are beginning to consider all information as public if it happens to be voiced, photographed, etc. anywhere, any time. (Remember the email from the British girl whose celebrated quote, "yours was yum," became international news fodder?)

How do we handle this as a society? How should I know? I had hoped we had elected people smarter than I to figure it out, but after seeing Enron and now Hollings, I'm beginning to despair of that notion...

In other news, the Universe itself moved from green to grey
So don't throw away your stuff... it will be trendy again. :)

I heard it on public radio over the weekend, too. It was a quiz item on the (funny) news quiz show "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!". They even played a soundbite of the 7-year-old explaining why his sister didn't want to be included in the patent.

Here's a Real Audio clip of the entire show.

This story was covered on NPR over the weekend with a fluff/human interest angle. Sorry, couldn't find it in their archives.

I heard it on public radio over the weekend, too. It was a quiz item on the (funny) news quiz show "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!". They even played a soundbite of the 7-year-old explaining why his sister didn't want to be included in the patent.

Here's a Real Audio clip of the entire show.

This story was covered on NPR over the weekend with a fluff/human interest angle. Sorry, couldn't find it in their archives.

The Fresh Air interview on April 11 with Journalist Jeffrey Rosen is worth a listen.

Here is a more in depth report from NPR's Wednesday broadcast of All Things Considered (in Real Audio format).

Here is a more in depth report from NPR's Wednesday broadcast of All Things Considered (in Real Audio format).