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A Derivative Podcast is Not a Financial Instrument Updated: 2006-06-23 21:18:56 Description: PlayThe word "derivative" sprung up on Delancey Place last week. Delancey Place is a brief daily email with an interesting excerpt or quote from a book or magazine article. Reading it is one of my favorite daily rituals. I am constantly impressed...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Happy Father's Day From Mark Twain Updated: 2006-06-18 15:02:30 Description: Happy Father's Day! PlayToday I would like to honor fathers and especially my father, Keith, with a quote from Mark Twain: When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD When will B.J. Fogg start a captology podcast? Updated: 2005-07-25 16:29:55 Description: Another neologism for today. The word is captology. Captology is an emerging field of study related to the design, theory, and analysis of persuasive, not pervasive, technologies. It is the study of technologies that change attitudes and encourag...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Getting to work proving podcasting is right Updated: 2005-07-27 15:44:41 Description: Today we have a quote sent in by a listener. It is a quote I really appreciate because I am guilty of the behavior described. The words are from John Kenneth Galbraith a Canadian economist just like me.Here is the quote:Faced with the choice between...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Potemkin podcast in the next elections Updated: 2005-08-01 08:00:21 Description: Today's word, Potemkin, is an entertaining political term. I have seen it on Boingboing.net many times. Recently it appeared in a post about the governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger.Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin was an 18th century Russi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Zoetrope Becomes a Movie Podcast Updated: 2005-08-08 03:33:39 Description: Zoetrope in motionOriginally uploaded by tempo.On a recommendation from Michael Geohegan I watched the Francis Ford Coppola movie the Conversation. Great movie.Frequent listeners of this podcast know I enjoy reading the credits. Well the credits fo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Heliotropes- Plants and Zonker podcast Updated: 2005-08-09 08:19:00 Description: While putting together yesterday's podcast on zoetrope I came across today's word- heliotrope.Heliotrope is a noun with several definitions. One is a purple or violet color. Another heliotrope is a surveying tool for civil engineers and map makers....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mea Culpa- Adam Curry's favorite bit of latin for podcasting Updated: 2005-10-20 07:25:07 Description: Welcome back. Today we have a celebrity inspired term, Mea Culpa.Recently Bill Gates used it when describing MS's failure to dominate the online music industry."Mea culpa" is a latin phrase uttered to accept guilt. It translates to "my fault." I ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Serendipity on the radio, soon in a podcast Updated: 2005-11-04 08:30:03 Description: Welcome to the 131st Today's Podcast. November 1st marked the one year anniversary of Today's Podcast. This year my goal is to produce over 200 shows. Much closer to my promise of a daily show.Today's word is serendipity. I was reminded of this w...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Equanimity in a Desperate Podcast Updated: 2006-02-15 23:50:03 Description: I heard Felicity Huffman use the word equanimity on NPR's All Things Considered. Felicity Huffman plays Lynette on Desperate Housewives and recently received an Oscar nomination for her staring role in Transamerica- the story of a man who becomes a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Happy Mardi Gras, Enjoy Ash Wednesday! Updated: 2006-02-28 13:35:43 Description: Happy Mardi Gras! Today I would take a little time to discuss Mardi Gras, Ash Wednesday, Carnival and Lent.Lent is the forty day Christian fasting season leading up to Easter. Christians, particularly Catholics, mark the period by giving up meat or...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Happy Millionth Wikipedia! Updated: 2006-03-02 00:36:11 Description: Today, March 1st, 2006, the one millionth English article was published at Wikipedia by Ewan Macdonald.From the Jordanhill Railway Station article:The Jordanhill Railway Station is a suburban railway station in the Jordanhill area on the west side of...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD No, I Have not Fallen into an Oubliette Updated: 2006-03-03 13:14:25 Description: Oubliette, this word popped up on two sites in one day so I had to include it in a podcast.Oubliette, as you can probably tell from the sound of oubliette is a French noun. An oubliette is a dungeon or cave with only an opening at the top. A hole i...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dell's Inanity Is Not Insanity, Just Frustrating Updated: 2006-03-15 07:45:34 Description: PlayI came across today's word in David Pogue's New York Times Circuits email newsletter. The word is inanity. When I first read it I suspected it was a typo; that Pogue meant insanity. As the author of many typos I was quite excited to find a typ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Great Poems on English Language Idiosyncrasies Updated: 2006-04-05 13:38:48 Description: PlayOver at Boing Boing, I came across a link to some great poems on the idiosyncracies of spelling and pronounciation in the English language. They don't make for a great podcast. The joy is in reading them.Here is my favorite:WHY ENGLISH IS SO HA...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcasting has a symbol but it is not as ubiquitous as the trefoil Updated: 2006-04-24 18:32:57 Description: I cannot apologize enough for the dearth of recent posts.Today I came across an interesting word in an editorial by Cory Doctorow at the New York Times. Cory's editorial draws our attention to cheap programmable microchips that allow nearly anybody...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD A copacetic podcast Updated: 2005-10-25 13:00:52 Description: Today's word, copacetic, is a favorite of mine. Although I too often forget to use it.Copacetic is an adjective meaning completely or entirely satisfactory. I think its connotation is much more positive then satisfactory. For example if a boss tol...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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