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jgercken asks: "I recently survived a 16-hour drive solo thanks to having downloaded 10+ hours of old Off the Hook shows, a 2600 sponsored radio program. It is so refreshing to hear news from a technically cognizant perspective. Is anyone aware of any similar programs or maybe sources of recorded lectures?"
Of course there are other radio shows with a technical perspective! Just take a look at Coast to Coast with Art Bell (sometimes). The technical parts come in to play when UFO's are mentioned ....
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Geeks in Space - not exactly "Knowledge by Ear", but what could beat "slashdot by ear"? :)
Quirks & Quarks on CBC Radio One Join host Bob McDonald each week to find out the latest in science, technology, medicine and the environment. We cover the quirks of the expanding universe to the quarks within a single atom...and everything in between.
also, check out the websites of conference recording companies. That $300 seminar you missed at PC Expo is now probably a $10 tape or CD.
A good chunk of Discovery Channel programs don't need pictures to be able to understand. There are quite a few other places you can record from too.
Although Audible is a pay service, it has an enormous amount of diverse material.
I think my favorite so far has been "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman".
I signed up for two books per month and I'm WAAAY behind on listening to it all in the car (some books are as long as 24 hours).
Always very well presented and researched, this is probably the best speechbased radio station in the world.
http://bbc.co.uk/radio4
http://www.abc.net.au/newsradio
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Maybe not quite what you're looking for, but sattelite radio is an excellent alternative. You get to listen to what they pick on each channel, but there is lots of interesting content.
I picked up a Sirius radio a couple of months ago and I love it. 60 channels of commercial free music, and 40 channels of talk/news (including the Discovery channel). XM is a couple of dollars less per month, but XM is mostly owned by ClearChannel (aka Satan), and they have commercials. A friend of mine has XM, and she says it gets pretty repetitive. I haven't noticed any repetition with Sirius.
I just took a several hundred mile trip, and it's the first time I didn't bring any CD's with. I didn't need them, the satellite radio worked perfectly and had plenty of content to keep me happy.
Another cool thing you'll notice about it is that you hear music and find out about artists you otherwise wouldn't have heard of. I've purchased a lot of music from the iTunes music store because of this.
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They've got a pretty good set of presenters and topics. I've only listened to a couple, but I like what I've heard so far.
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My first pick was Off the Hook, then Off the Wall.
I searched for good free sources of MP3 talk radio content. If NPR wasn't solely Real format, I'd grab All Things Considered and Morning Edition. Ditto This American Life (damn, how I'd love to have this show in MP3 format!).
A decent, locally-produce show that I like is Radio West, a show dealing with issues local to Utah and the West in general. There's a few good recent shows about the Mountain Meadows Massacre, a horrific event in LDS history that Mormon officials rarely acknowledge (and have never formally apologized for). Quite a hot potato in local circles. ;-)
A somewhat less professional, but often entertaining show, is Ghostly Talk. Regardless of your opinion on ghost chasers and the supernatural, it's kinda interesting stuff. My only real gripe with the show is that there's a lot of chatter of the crew amongst themselves before the real meat of the program's main topic is presented.
More MP3 archives of good public radio shows would be most welcome. (I don't suppose there's a good Real Adio --> mp3 converter for Linux?)
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...Are available on tape at Amazon, and probably MP3 somewhere. ;)
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BiTD (Back in the day) we had RadioX in Houston, Texas. It was a radioshow put on by a lot of the big BBSers around 1996 and had a concurrent IRC chat going as well. It was a good mix of ascii/ansi and other various BBS related things. There may have even been a few juar0z people around too, if you can imagine that.
Sadly, a quick google of it only shows a bit from around 1996 and a dead website. I wonder if theres any of it still around...
The one thing I remember from it, oddly enough, was Mr. Man's comment about everyone complaining about internet lag since these were all modem days: "Lag? I use a 2400 baud modem so everything is lagged... I just can't tell the difference."
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Or have your computer read it to a CD or an audio device, so you can have your powerful stationary machine do the hard work and just play back the resulting audio.
Check out The Teaching Company. They have a nice catalog of high-quality college lecture courses available on cassette, CD, VHS, or DVD. Their selection leans toward the humanities, but they offer a little of everything. I know people who are addicted to these courses.
A lot of church pastors and other Christian speakers put their sermons online -
Dr. Daniel Harrell
Ravi Zacharias
Alister Begg
RC Sproul
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entertaining, if not educational is Pacifica's DemocracyNow! radio show. Archives of the show daily show (now 2 hours I believe) are available for download in mp3 or a RealAudio stream within a few days of the broadcast. I used to listen to this a lot but haven't much lately since I scored a bunch of audio books on tape. I'd probably be better off listening to DemocracyNow, but the audio stuff is entertaining. And I ripped about 15 hours of programming from BBC Radio4, which was mentioned previously.
FYI, AudioHijack for OSX will rip RealAudio streams to mp3 or aiff (for further transformation of your choice). I'm sure an equivalent exists for windows and perhaps linux users.
Etc, etc, ad nauseam, and so on and so forth.
Look for books on tape, or preferably, compact disc.
Rip them to mp3.
Listen at leisure.
Courtesy of my local library, I've recently picked up copies of an Allen Ginsburg album, Bill Cosby's "Himself", a Bill Maher audiobook, Cornel West's album, a Garrison Keillor sampler, James Mason reading "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" & Roy Dotrice reading "The Hunting of the Snark", and the audiobook version of "Minority Report", which also includes other Phillip K Dick stories. Just to name a few. And I haven't even been looking that long, just a few weeks.
I'm hoping I can get a copy of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio show, but so far I've ony found it on tape -- which to date I haven't yet figured out how to turn into mp3s. Suggestions for that would be eagerly welcomed... :-)
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