Great Podcasts - 4/29/08

If you listen to a single podcast all year, make it this Thomas Friedman speech, "Green Is The New Red, White & Blue" (the talk itself seems to only be available through iTuned here). I don't think Friedman needs any introduction (if he does), but this talk is a good introduction to his ideas on the complex issues (and context) surrounding the "green movement" and the dire state of the globe as we plunge towards a global warming tipping point. It can be chilling (paraphrasing: if we were to, say, want to shift towards nuclear power to offset US carbon emissions by the year 2050 [which is the, predictions say, "point of no return" for CO2 levels at current emission levels], we could have to bring on line 1 plant per day for the next 30 years)...but there is also a sense of hope in his reasoning and holistic understanding of a mind-numbing problem.

(via OpenCulture)

Miles On The Deck

One of my new favorite pictures:



Miles On The Deck (Early Morning) - 01 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Good Podcasts (4/14/08 - 4/18/08)

• ReadWriteTalk's first Semantic Web Gang panel (mp3) - "This new Semantic Web Gang will be a regular monthly show, tapping into insights on the news of the moment from some of those at the forefront in bringing the Semantic Web vision to reality."
• Lunar Design talks "Design of Future Things" with Don Norman (mp3).
• For some reason, i've recently been drawn to the writing of Richard Price...in this discussion from the Commonwealth Club, Price reads from his latest book, Lush Life, and discusses the myriad issues that arise in a changing city (mp3). Never having read any of his work, I am excited to read the copy of "Clockers" I picked up from Paperbackswap...and he's a great speaker. I highly recommend this. And I need to start watching The Wire...which has been languishing on our Netflix queue for ages.
  

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When it is request that he smile for the camera, Miles responds with a toothy "deeeeeee!"

Invisible Clam - The Betahouse In Absentia Muxtape

Celebrating it's first birthday, the mighty Betahouse threw a big party...and graciously, I was asked to put together a mix for the event. Unfortunately, I could not attend, instead opting to sit in the drizzle to watch Chien Ming Wang 2-hit the Red Sox at Fenway.

Still, I was able to piece together a nice "in absentia" mix for the shindig...which bubbles up from some slurpy underwater dub (and another Black Ghosts remix that makes it way to my top-of-the-current-year list) through to some mildly offensive club tracks (nothing says "Betahouse" like bee oh oh tee ah why!).

1 - One-Two - Anne Mall (Radioclit RMX)
2 - Pinch - Brighter Day
3 - The Black Ghosts - Some Way Through This (Plastician & Skream Remix)
4 - Burial - Archangel (Boy 8-Bits Simple Re-mix)
5 - Miss Kittin & The Hacker - Sweet Dreams
6 - Boy 8-Bit - Fog Bank (Jack Beats Remix)
7 - Crystal Castles - Cry Babies (Crystal Castles VS Comic Book Fever)
8 - Dizzee Rascal - Sirens (Black Lights Remix)
9 - Spank Rock - B-O-O-T-A-Y ft. Santogold & Betty Black (Leif Remix)
10 - Squincy Jones - 3 Kings (Nintendub Edit)
11 - Pinch - Lazarus
12 - HudMo - Ooops (Oh My)

It's up on Muxtape...give it a listen.

(and also give a listen to the mixes from Aurgasm and Sooz...quality, those)

Good Podcast (3/31/08 - 4/4/08)

This week was shortened by the fact that one of my dogs rifled through my bag (no joke) and broke my trusty ole iTrip...so I had to wait until my new (circa 2006...which I am not convinced works as well as my older one did) model arrived.

• Clay Shirky @ Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, discussing his new book "Here Comes Everybody" (video...I actually can't seem to find the audio archive, but you can listen to a lecture he gave at the RSA here). You may have also seen him on The Colbert Report.

Styge

Listening to the latest Electronic Explorations show is pure madness...such great tunes, all unknowns to me...I beseech you to check it out.

My highlight is Ed Chamberlain's "Styge," which is a haunting, lilting, cut-up dirge. Bad.

Sort of relatedly, I just uncovered The Mr. Henry Von Podcast...which looks heavy.