Some Podcasts I Have Sampled - Eight

Munchcast - one of the newer TWIT podcast devoted to junk food (or as they call it "geek food"). Very interesting, my favourite episodes so far are the ones on ice cream (Ice Cream, You Scream!) and the episode at Powell's Sweet Shoppe. They go into all variations on the foods they discuss and revel in the sugary fattiness of the foods the cover. It's an somewhat ambivalent revelling though, proud to eat junk but with an apologetic air. The Powell's Sweet Shoppe visit was preceded by Cammy Blackstone (the host along with Leo Laporte) telling us that she was eating a beet salad before she went on her sugar trip. The shop sounds like some kind of candy wonderland. I'm liking listening.

New York Times Video: Style | Dining & Wine is a Videocast usually featuring the New York Times columnist Mark Bittman who likes simple food. In one episode he says that he keeps telling people don't cook food, just eat it. But obviously there is cooking involved in these casts, but it's not elaborate, so I likey. Some of the outdoor cooking is done on a kind of terrace in front of a luscious green park/cemetery. Mark has a fairly deadpan humourous delivery which I appreciate. The link to the site I above seems only to work in some of my browsers, I'm not sure why, you can look for the cast on iTunes. The page on the website offers more videos than the RSS feed I'm subscribed to.


Frequencycast is a podcast on things digital media in the UK. They discuss things like Freeview, Sky Plus, BT Home Hub, DAB and things of that sort, though they are starting to diversify into other areas of tech. I'm not keen on the in-podcast banter the hosts do, but it's worth listening as it's a fountain of valuable information. New or changed digital TV channels? Find out here, I only wish the podcast was more frequent as the show is very interesting if you're into UK digital media.

Lumix DMCFZ5

Lumix DMCFZ5
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Here is a photo, an example of my new camera, from Flickr. Photo is of my old camera, the Lumix.

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At the bottom of the blog page there. Oh, I bought that Olympus camera I wrote about before, am very pleased with it. How does a duck use a camera? aaah-haa this is a secret.