I tried a bit of RadioLab (http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/) that they mention on This American Life, but they keep talking over each other all the time and its just confusing. Pretty interesting stories though if you haven't checked it out already.

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Yea, I love that show. Free itunes download each week. If you have an iPhone, they have a great app too--you get their entire back catalog. I'd also recommend the Moth podcast--it's true stories told to a live audience.

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Just listened to "Pool Of Money" from "This American Life" and it was great! Thanks for the suggestion, I'm totally addicted to this radio show, can't believe how good they are at telling interesting stories.

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The episodes they did on the financial meltdown are excellent.

Yea, I love that show. Free itunes download each week. If you have an iPhone, they have a great app too--you get their entire back catalog. I'd also recommend the Moth podcast--it's true stories told to a live audience.

In reply to this comment by chtierna:
Just listened to "Pool Of Money" from "This American Life" and it was great! Thanks for the suggestion, I'm totally addicted to this radio show, can't believe how good they are at telling interesting stories.

In reply to this comment by nach0s:
The episodes they did on the financial meltdown are excellent.

I'm sure a lot of these people would love for Obama to get another term, since their entire catalog of merchandise is based on the irrational hatred of him.

*Dead. Looks like Google Video has finally cut off access to their back catalog of content.

They're not illegal, just immoral. Here in Canada, a company recently got some bad press when it was revealed they were selling these kinds of books - catalogues of available government grants and low-interest loans. The kicker was, all of the information they packaged in the catalogs was publicly available for free.>> ^NordlichReiter:

Looks like bullshit.
A scam. Something about this seems illegal.

Blankfist, thanks for the definitions, I guess I have never come to terms with all the lingo; atheist, theist, religious, gnostic, agnostic etc.
I don't work well with labels. Maybe that's why I don't use them to define myself and they tend to pigeon hole me into one camp or the other.

I have an inner dislike for hierarchies of any kind, religious, political or social. To me they are all artificial archetypes and superficial. I have never been able to see past the equality of one person over another. Because of this, I can't bring myself to believe in the word "worship" which instantly relinquishes your independence and puts you under the dominance of another.

For me, I enjoy all the points of view. The possibility of creation but not by omnipotence. The possibility that we are a lost, abandoned or marooned colony. The possibility that we are spontaneous life.

SDGundamX, I still think creativity plays a role in spirituality. At the same time, I agree with you. All our life experiences are compared and refined to create our own personal dichotomy. I think we take the facts and creatively weave them together with abstract ideas and concepts in order to define them for ourselves.

In a church of 600 people, not everyone can believe that exact same thing. Some people will close off to some things, some with redefine certain meanings. Some will have certain beliefs that they keep to themselves. some parts will be believed whole-heartedly while some things will be dismissed outright.

Point being; Spirituality can be both a scientific dissection and cataloging of events in ones personal life and it can be a creative process of combining personal and world views in order to define and encompass one's own "theory of everything" however limiting or defining it may be.

It's incredibly simple. When somebody offers you money or offers to pay for something on your behalf, you are to respond with "are you sure?" At this point they will either say "forget about it" and nullify any debts on your part or say "you can get me back later." The debt to be repaid later need not be exact, just comparable.

The money is completely irrelevant. You're not returning money, you're returning FAVORS. If you're an uptight douchebag who feels the need to catalog every penny in and out then tell people ahead of time so they don't OFFER you monetary favors.

^I tend to agree with your sentiments. I mean I think a '90s channel would be good, but it would be more for cataloging purposes than for promoting new material. Still, I voted for it because I liked it better than the others.

Indigenous would be my second choice, and that would also need clarification. Take the history of France, for example. The Gauls were indigenous, but then the Romans came later, and they would have been considered indigenous to the invading Franks. But still, Indigenous has some potential.

>> ^kronosposeidon:

I dunno....to me it seems they edited this more to titillate than to educate, but then you are talking to a guy who gets off to the Sears catalog.


Boys underwear section. Zing!

I dunno....to me it seems they edited this more to titillate than to educate, but then you are talking to a guy who gets off to the Sears catalog.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

As far as I understand it, the whole tunnel from your PC to the VPN server in encrypted.

The problem though is that the "clean" IP addresses out the other end are re-used. Hulu knows about some VPN IP address ranges- and blocks them. But then you just have to disconnect and reconnect with a different location - say move from Texas to California.

Some business will be making a lot of money cataloging known VPN IP addresses and selling the blacklist to companies like Hulu.

The West Virginia coal mine where an explosion killed 25 workers and left another four unaccounted for in the worst mining disaster since 1984 had amassed scores of citations from mining safety officials, including 57 infractions just last month for violations that included repeatedly failing to develop and follow a ventilation plan.

The federal records catalog the problems at the Upper Big Bra More..nch mine, operated by the Performance Coal Company. They show the company was fighting many of the steepest fines, or simply refusing to pay them. Performance is a subsidiary of Massey Energy. Another Massey subsidiary agreed to pay $4.2 million in criminal and civil fines last year and admitted to willfully violating mandatory safety standards that led to the deaths of two miners. The fine was the largest penalty in the history of the coal industry.

The nation's sixth biggest mining company by production, Massey Energy took in $24 million in net income in the fourth quarter of 2009. The company paid what was then the largest financial settlement in the history of the coal industry for the 2006 fire at the Aracoma mine, also in West Virginia. The fire trapped 12 miners. Two suffocated as they looked for a way to escape. Aracoma later admitted in a plea agreement that two permanent ventilation controls had been removed in 2005 and not replaced, according to published reports.

The two widows of the miners killed in Aracoma were unsatisfied by the plea agreement, telling the judge they believed the company cared more about profits then safety. After the deal, the Massey subsidiary pledged a renewed focus on safety after the fines were levied.

But Bruce Stanley, the attorney who tried the Aracoma Mine accident case, had doubts. He told ABC News Monday there are a lot of similarities between the Aracoma mine and the one involved in this week's tragedy, and he has concerns about Massey's checkered track record on safety issues. Data kept by the Mine Safety and Health Administration show the Upper Big Branch mine has suffered three worker fatalities in last 12 years.

"One can only hope that the level of criminal neglect evident at the Aracoma accident was not repeated at the Upper Big Branch mine," Stanley said Monday night.

After the Aracoma accident, Massey Energy released a statement that said the company "is a recognized leader in safety innovation and performance and remains committed to working with federal and state agencies to fully understand the causes of the accident and to prevent a similar occurrence at Massey Energy or elsewhere in the future."

Monday night, Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship released a statement saying, "Our top priority is the safety of our miners and the well-being of their families. We are working diligently on rescue efforts and continue to partner with all of the appropriate agencies."

The company is well known in West Virginia, in part because CEO Don Blankenship grew to become a fixture in state politics, doling out thousands of dollars to candidates he favored – most of them Republicans. In 2004, he spent millions on advertising that attacked a West Virginia state Supreme Court justice, leading to the election of challenger Brent Benjamin.

Massey had a $70 million case before the state Supreme Court and, once elected, Benjamin made the controversial decision not to recuse himself because of Blankenship's support of him and to hear arguments anyway. Another member of the court hearing the case was Chief Justice Elliott "Spike" Maynard. He later recused himself after photographs surfaced showing that he vacationed with Blankenship in the French Riviera.

When an ABC News reporter tried to interview Blankenship about the possible conflicts in the parking lot of a Massey Energy office in Belfry, Ky., Blankenship became agitated.

"If you're going to start taking pictures of me, you're liable to get shot," Blankenship told the reporter before grabbing his camera.


Blankenship later told the Charleston Daily Mail he couldn't recall making any threats. "Quite frankly, I don't know what I said except that I know I'm never loud, vulgar or rude to strangers," he said.

The conflicts surrounding the state Supreme Court saga triggered a cascade of changes, including a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that called on judges to recuse themselves when major donors come before them in court, and a vote by the West Virginia legislature to adopt public financing of judicial campaigns.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/west-va-coal-company-deadly-explosion-fined-millions/story?id=10293691&page=2

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ab4_1270570649

>> ^EDD:

I'm sorry, mate, but... seriously? (this goes out to dag as well, because he authorized it, while I was advised less than a year ago that my channel considerations, culture (admittedly, non-feasible because of cult anyway), education or water might be too niche)
Did we really need a channel this specific that it will probably end up having <100 videos in it? Couldn't you've gone with Audio or something, at the very least? And I won't even start debating the relevance of the scream as a 2-second special effect in, let's say, a movie clip that lasts minutes. I'm really sorry, but I honestly don't think this was a channel we needed.

I can see why it's a bit of a snub (and i really want to see a *water channel as well), but i don't think it has to be about need, just want - a meta-gag for a gag concept, to keep some levity in the channel catalog.

Chrome tracks every browser uniquely. Google wants to catalog every thing you have or will ever do.

Also, why are you using IE8?/? I can understand if you were at work maybe.... I just can't understand how stupid some people can be using IE8...

Now is the time for somebody with a half decent micro-pay model to walk up to viacom and offer them a sweeter deal than running their own half assed web-streaming servers.

I would happily pay $0.10 - $0.25 for 3-5 day, ad free, viewing rights to an episode of a show, and $0.05 - $0.15 for back catalog shows, I'm willing to wager that viacom makes much less than that in ad revenue per view/episode.

Hulu, is a beach front in the internet IP wars, it made watching stuff easy, and the experience was pleasant enough that we watched ads, and figured it was a fair deal, when we could just be torrenting this stuff for free.

I think Hulu understands that it is competing with free, I don't think viacom got the memo yet.

Unfortunately viacom is holding all the cards, I'll be watching on their site, but I would wager that they will not get even half the traffic hulu got, and will end up with less money in their pockets at the end of the day. Unless viacom intends to try to compete with a broad hulu like service, I think they will find that they just shot themselves in the foot.