Podcasts

I've really gotten into podcasts lately, so I'd like to list a few of my favorites. I usually get them through iTunes or Podcast Alley. These are in no particular order.

- Pottercast, the podcast of www.the-leaky-cauldron.org. News and discussion on the Harry Potter books. The cast is mostly female, except for John Noe (who is hilarious, and likes Queen!).

- Mugglecast, the podcast of www.mugglenet.com. Also Harry Potter news and discussion. The cast is mostly male.

- Diggnation, the podcast of www.digg.com. Digg.com lets viewers post and vote for ("digg") interesting technology news stories on the web. The top ten stories of the week are covered in the podcast.

- Geeks On. Discussion from a group of California geeks about geek-centric topics.

- This Week In Tech. More technology news. Very professional - probably the most popular "independent" (i.e. not NPR) podcast out there.

I'll post more as I think of or discover them.

New Lemony Snicket book is released!

A Series of Unfortunate Events book the twelfth, The Penultimate Peril, was released yesterday. I went nuts trying to wait for work to get out so I could go buy it. I even went to the university bookstore hoping they had it (yeah right). The publishers and Mr. Snicket had a lot of fun with this release - they didn't even reveal the book's title until yesterday. I spent the last few months on www.thenamelessnovel.com trying to solve the mystery of its name. Of course there was no chance of figuring out the title before it was released, but I got to view some illustrations and a page from the book. I finished reading the book this morning. What can I say? Apparently there's still one more book to go, so there are still a lot of questions to be answered. Hopefully the 13th book will be released next fall, and there will be some sort of resolution to the Baudelaire's tale.