Books should be free is the title of a site that offers free audio books from the public domain.
I’ve downloaded From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne to try it out; if I like it, I’ll continue with Round the Moon, of course.
Link via Schockwellenreiter.
People on Ask MetaFilter ask about Radiolab Greatest Hits and longer podcasts worth listening to.
My daily commute is about one hour, and I like to listen to podcasts or audio books while driving. I subscribe to This American Life and Radiolab as well as The Quilted Cupcake, but I also like to listen to something else for a change. Did you know that the BBC offers 262 podcasts? I found them via the MetaFilter thread BBC World Service Documentaries:
“BBC World Service has over 500 audio documentaries you can download. The subject matter is incredibly wide ranging, for example, internet cafés, the influence of Islamic art on William Morris, South African female AIDS activist Thembi Ngubane, Yiddish, the importance of cows, novelist Chinua Achebe, financial risk management, Obama as an intellectual, the physical and emotional effects of a car crash and many, many more. If the quantity and variety are overwhelming, you can subscribe to a podcast, which delivers a new documentary to you every single day.”
I plan to listen to some of the documentaries for a start, but have also subscribed to A History of the World in 100 Objects – the first 30 objects/episodes are online so far, and the next set of programmes begins on 17 May.
Ten years ago I posted on my newly created weblog for the first time. Has it really been ten years already? It feels like a century in internet-time, but much shorter than a decade in real life. I must be getting old. ;-)
To celebrate, I give you a link to a site that was all the rage back then – turn your speakers on!
(More elaborate posting to come, have got to run to work.)
Google turns ten and brings back their oldest available index, which is from 2001. If you search for my first name now, Andrea Electronics is the first hit. A search for my first name back in 2001 shows that back then a little weblog apparently was more popular than the electronics company. Ah, the good old times, back when most people didn’t even know what weblogs were…
This reminds me of some of the old-timers who have since disappeared… remember Behind the Curtain? Hi Alwin Hawkins, John van Dyk, Mike Donellan, Jeff Cheney, Netdyslexen et al! Any of you guys still around?
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