It’s almost the end of the year, so here’s what I’m listening to via podcast. (Audio or sometimes video programs downloaded directly and automagically onto your computer for later listening or viewing.) If you’re a new iPod owner, consider this a decent starting place for stuff to listen to yourself, assuming you and I have identical tastes. (And why wouldn’t you?)
All of these can be found in the iTunes podcast directory and most of them can be found via the magic of Google.
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I keep promising to make this list, but it hasn’t happened until now.
I have a lot of friends who have iPhones now, or iPod Touch units (my brother’s family has my old one, for instance). And while the media player is nice and the phone aspect is fine, to me, the units become most impressive when you unlock their potential as portable computers and start adding applications from the iTunes App Store.
While some apps can be pricy — $30 or more for some financial planning software, for instance — there’s a lot of free programs, too, either produced for the fun of it or as freeware previews of more fully featured paid apps. I haven’t paid more than $5 for any app, and I only actually use one that expensive. (The other two paid apps on my iPhone were $0.99 each, as I recall.)
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Grammar Girl has just released her annual list. I confess the number one peeve is a new one on me, but I’ve seen similar uses, and they’re plenty horrifying.
5. Carelessness
4. “Myself”
3. “Tap”
2. “Baby Bump”
1. “Slay”
She misses that “tap” is also slang for “to have sex with,” which makes a lot of those political headlines very amusing when you’re tired and punchy.
I love the From the Pages of the Washington Post podcast — and missed it when it was on an unexplained months-long hiatus that ended recently — but the staffer who reads most of the stories has been making me nuts, by pronouncing “anonymity” like “anonymous” with an “itty” grafted on as the last paragraph.
This is not an acceptable or variant pronunciation. I think the answer here is clear: The Post needs to hire me to read their daily podcasts.
I expect you all to e-mail Publisher Katharine Weymouth demanding I be hired. Ms. Weymouth, I await your telephone call.
One of the songs I listened to most this year. I have friends who refuse to listen to anything that sounds remotely like rap, and I think they’re missing out, as it’s going to be part of the musical landscape from now on, and it’ll inform lots of artists in the same way as country music informs artists that people might otherwise think of as rock and roll acts.
Atmosphere (Rap) |MTV Music
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