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Category Archives: Radio

Radionomics and lard

Radionomics is only my fancy portmonteau of radio and economics, of course. The following has more to do with the radio of economics than the economics of radio. Given that I’ve just tried my hand — and failed — at freely distributing podcasts via Podcast Generator, this will make perfect sense: chmod 777 does not [...]

The pleasures of radio, linguistic analysis, and old TV

First, radio. I could perhaps use the term podcast, because here I mean recorded internet radio, but I’ll use radio because that is the continuity. In the car, I prefer the FM wireless version of my local NPR/classical station (funny to qualify FM as wireless now). Online, though, is where the wide wealth really abounds. [...]

Torture's long shadow

Third day in a row, hark, what madness? Seriously, I thought it worthwhile to post a note on torture and why it is the wrong policy, but not for any original reasons of my own. First, this piece from 2005 by Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky ought to stir some minds. And how did I come [...]

The meme reinforced

How memes are reinforced in little ways. Here, In 1995, she released the suicide note of former White House aide Vincent Foster, acting on litigation brought by the Wall Street Journal under the Freedom of Information Act. Whereas here, No single item connected to the Foster death has aroused as much controversy as the so-called [...]