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Ocean research ship is doing a survey of some sort just outside of the backyard. I think they have divers on board. Maybe they are Nazi frogmen coming to get me…. just a bit paranoid I guess]]>

Podcast directory, and have gone to another level with some neat audio capturing software to grab President Bush’s radio address and turn it into a White House Podcast. Basically it scrapes a streaming media file and creates an mp3 file of the content (don’t worry–there is no copyright problems on something like this). I’ve also done it with Prime Ministers Question time in England, creating a podcast for #10 (I think the BBC will eventually get around to do this). I hope as the bandwidth will really kill me in the end.]]>

I was on the Radio this weekend. ]]>

story in the NYTimes today about Shakespeare behind bars, a program designed to teach some inmates something about the world. When they asked if anyone had some acting experience, one wrote a pretty good reply: “As for acting experience, one man had played Simon Legree in a Milwaukee prison production of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” while another was in “Three Billy Goats Gruff” back in kindergarten. William White, who is halfway through a 32-year stretch for burglary, wrote on his application that for 15 years he had “acted like I didn’t have a drug problem.””]]>

The Space Shuttle is going up on my birthday. ]]>

BBC has video. UPDATE: Ratzinger from Germany]]>

ABC and others are reporting on a detective shot by a suspect in a police station. After he killed the detective, he jumped out a window to escape. CNN just showed a picture of him wearing a Hanibal Lector outfit (face guard). His eyes are black and blue, and his skin is all cut up. CNN said “jumping out of the window may explain the bruising.” “May?” How about “shooting a cop is probably the reason for the bruising, as he got the snot kicked out of him after he was arrested.” CNN needs to be more accurate.]]>

Maryland Gas Prices has become a regular website for me of late. Lately I’ve been looking at a new car, possibly a Land Rover. No, I’m not a soccer mom–it’s just that the Land Rover has one of the few engines that can handle LPG fuel instead of gasoline. I’m thinking of switching to an LPG/Propane vehicle for my next car, but we’ll see how a lot of other things go before we get around to that.]]>