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Interesting Tech-Related Online Talk Radio?

Posted by simoniker on from the yakity-yak dept.

kabrakan writes "Finding myself in an extremely boring tech job, I find the best way to pass the time is to listen to someone speak, specifically an interesting conversation about science, or a comedian. After exhausting NPR's database, could anyone recommend any online repositories of spoken word entertainment, especially talk in the technology world?"

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  1. Simple -- Art Bell by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Has all the latest in the high tech world

  2. npr is the problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    your work is not boring...it's npr

  3. The last time I listened to Live Radio by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    the friggin Martians invaded. That was it for me.

    1. Re:The last time I listened to Live Radio by kfg · · Score: 2, Funny

      On the other hand they destroyed New Jersey, so it wasn't all bad.

      KFG

  4. How about you do your job slacker by slash-tard · · Score: 5, Funny

    The next question from you will be:

    Dear slashdot, I got outsourced to India because I listened to the radio and didnt do any work. What should I do with all my free time?

    Love,

    Your favorite turd burglar?

    1. Re:How about you do your job slacker by praxim · · Score: 2, Funny

      But... but... they said I could... I could listen to the radio... at a reasonable volume... between 9 and 11 AM...

      Ok, but I'm going to burn the building down...

  5. man... really. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ever try piping man pages through a text->speech app?

    you know you want to. hours of, well not quite "radio", enjoyment for all!

  6. Wrong place to ask by xsupergr0verx · · Score: 5, Funny

    If slashdotters knew where to find interesting tech news, they wouldn't be slashdotters.

    I kid, I kid..... mostly

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  7. Use software for visually impaired by sdo1 · · Score: 4, Funny
    1) Buy some software designed to assist visually impaired people surf the web

    2) Point it here

    3) Sit back and enjoy.

    -S

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  8. Re:Kim Komando! by ChipMonk · · Score: 4, Funny

    Someone who beta-tested Unix games while in grade school, *and* she's, well, female... and you have no interest?

    Please don't take this the wrong way, but are you gay?

  9. I can hear it now by bonch · · Score: 4, Funny

    Taco: "First-time caller, you're on the air--"
    Caller: "Frist p0st!" *click*
    Taco: "Okay, caller #2, you're on--"
    Caller: "GNAA owns the radio waves--"
    Taco: "Moving right along. Caller #3, you're on the air with Slashdot radio. What's on your mind?"
    Caller: "I for one welcome our new GNAA overlords--"
    Taco: "Fucking hell. Is there a single sane individual out there?"

  10. Re:Air America Radio by Ziviyr · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nice to be able to tune in. Oops, no realplayer here...

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  11. A little later on in the broadcast.... by monkeyboy87 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Taco: " caller, you're on the air--" Caller: "In Soviet Russia, the Radio show calls you!"*click* followed by the closing caller: Taco: " caller, you're on the air--" Caller: "I think that goatse has a face perfect for radio..."*click*

  12. Re:Air America Radio by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "1) _you_ can do it. yourself. yes, you can. I believe in you" ... as long as you've got mass quantities of pharmaceuticals to help out.

    Also, it's probably a good attitude. He'll be doing it himself again, having divorced his third wife recently.