• I'm not supposed to link to this column by Bill O'Reilly--here's why.

• Today's earworm: Scent of a Robot

• First, The Gates. Now, The Crackers.

• About Podcasts, Bill Seitz rants:

  alternative idea for filling your dead passive-listening time - have software to generate speech from RSS and make that into an MP3 file

  This makes me giggle because, well, it's one of the hacks I wrote up for my book, last week. I probably need to edit things, but I hope the goofiness and sheer hack value comes through.

• Speaking of Podcasts: Check out the Battlestar Galactica Podcast. It's like getting the DVD commentary track, but about a year early. Finally, my hunch is confirmed that Battlestar Galactica's opening sequence with episode preview is "an homage to Space 1999".

• Lately, my favorite thing to toss back at Podcast naysayers: Dismissing Podcasts because of issues of quality or amateurism is like dismissing eBay because people try selling their used sneakers there.

Meanwhile, I've just about got a full commute to and from work filled with pretty good quality content--or at least decently entertaining content (to me)--to the point that I've almost stopped listening to NPR. Also, it's becoming a rapidly heating issue at work--not sure if it will go where I hope it does, but I've started getting drafted to educate some co-workers in other departments.