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  1. C-SPAN by internic · · Score: 1 · on Watching Tonight's Presidential Debate Online

    I think there will also be a stream available from C-SPAN, which will probably be preferable to the abysmal journalism of Fox News one may be subjected to at the beginning or end. It looks like a local DC PBS affiliate is also offering a live webcast, but a) I'm not sure how much bandwidth they'll have and b) it looks like it's offered either as windows media video or through silverlight, so this may be tough if you're on Linux.

    I think that, aside from questions of capacity, C-SPAN is probably the best option because you can get the debate relatively unfiltered. Looking at analysis can be useful, but do it after you've had some time to digest it and come to your own conclusions. Then getting another view can add some insights you missed. Most networks want to rush on with the "analysts" and interviews from spin alley to tell you what to think before you have a chance to consider it yourself. This can color your whole perception of an event, framing the terms in which you think about, in a way that has little to do with logic or the issues.

    Now what seem really hard to find are audio podcasts of the debates. Often, when I miss a debate I just want to get an audio podcast to listen to while I'm going someplace or doing chores around the house, etc. I don't really need to see the debate, if anything that draws focus to irrelevant stuff and away from substantive issues. Unfortunately, these are hard to find, and in the past I've had to grab a video and then make the mp3 for myself.

  2. NPR by kevin_conaway · · Score: 1 · on Good Podcasts and Podcatchers?

    NPR and Marketplace post podcasts of some of their more popular shows.

    Check your local stations as well.

  3. Oops! by TheSync · · Score: 1 · on WETA Digital Operations Mgr. Talks Special Effects

    I thought you meant this WETA Digital.

  4. Could you fix the title? by david+duncan+scott · · Score: 2, Informative · on WETA Digital Operations Mgr. Talks Special Effects

    WETA is a public television station in DC. Weta is where this guy works.

  5. Hooray for Public Television! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1 · on WETA Digital Operations Mgr. Talks Special Effects

    Who knew that WETA-TV was making such great stuff? Pledge now!

  6. Re:Junk Mail by JThaddeus · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Pay Dirt in Scanned Driver's Licenses

    I stopped contributing to WETA, a Washington, DC public radio and TV station, some years ago when they admitted to selling my name and address to mailing lists. I knew they had done it before they told me because they had uniquely messed up my name on their labels and that same name kept cropping up time after time. They called me during their last fund-raiser and asked for a contribution. I told them that I would be happy to contribute but only after I went a year without getting any junk mail with that name on it!

  7. Weta by wiredog · · Score: 2 · on More on LoTR Special Effects

    I just love the work they do, so I send them money every year.

  8. I didn't realize by wiredog · · Score: 4, Funny · on Behind the Scenes

    that a PBS station was involved in the production of LoTR. Does this mean that I'll stop hearing them beg for money twice a year?

  9. If at first you don't succeed.. by Smitty · · Score: 1 · on Feature:Geek Jobs
    There are a large number of web sites specializing in job postings. If you don't find anything interesting on one, try another. A (not so) short list includes,
    * - my employer and a damn fine place to work (-plug -plug)