Posts tagged ‘entertainment’
BBC iPlayer site-specific browser
February 24th, 2010 at 10:00 am by Dr. Drang
As I’ve mentioned at great length in earlier posts, I use Audio Hijack Pro to record BBC Radio shows that are streamed over the internet but don’t come in podcast form. Until recently, I’d been using Safari to open the stream URL. Generally, this worked out fine, but if I wanted to browse while recording…
Unintended Consequences of Math
February 17th, 2010 at 11:30 pm by Dr. Drang
I thought last week’s episode of In Our Time was particularly good, even though I already knew most of the facts presented and disagreed with much of the discussion of those facts. Actually, maybe I liked it because I disagreed with it. It gave me a lot to think about, which thinking I will now…
All you need
January 18th, 2010 at 10:02 pm by Dr. Drang
This page has some huge Beatles nerdery charts. The authorship/collaboration timeline is probably the best1, but I also like the one that shows the song keys per album. Least interesting, I think, is the self-reference chart because it’s so heavily dominated by “Glass Onion.” There’s also a Charting the Beatles Flickr group, which I’ve just…
One-off recordings with Audio Hijack Pro
December 15th, 2009 at 7:05 pm by Dr. Drang
I’ve written once or twice about using Audio Hijack Pro to record a few weekly BBC radio shows from their internet streams. I use the BBC’s Listen Again feature to schedule the recordings not when the shows are running, but late at night when I’m not using my office computer. The BBC also runs irregular…
Shine on
December 8th, 2009 at 7:00 am by Dr. Drang
Yes, I remember where I was 29 years ago when I heard the news. Tags: lennon
Meatballs and arches
November 28th, 2009 at 11:59 pm by Dr. Drang
My sons and I saw Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs last night at a local second-run theater and enjoyed it thoroughly. Like all kids’ movies, it had Lessons For Us All (I think that’s a legal requirement), but it managed to keep them pretty well confined. And any movie able to use both James…
Adapting BBC Radio recording scripts
October 13th, 2009 at 5:06 pm by Dr. Drang
Reader Chris Nelms sent me a nice email over the weekend. He’s a fan of several BBC Radio 4 programs and had been recording them with Audio Hijack Pro for listening to in his car—similar to my time-shifting of Radio 2 shows, except that Chris’s recordings probably have more legitimacy, as he’s a UK resident…
Weak steel
October 7th, 2009 at 10:51 am by Dr. Drang
Because I wrote a post last week about the first episode of “British Steel: How British Heavy Metal Conquered The World,” a BBC Radio 2 documentary about the early history of heavy metal in England, I feel obligated to follow up with a post about the second episode, which aired this past weekend. But my…
Spinal Tap was real
October 1st, 2009 at 12:24 pm by Dr. Drang
This morning I listened to this show on my ride into work and I have never laughed so much. It’s a BBC Radio 2 documentary called “British Steel: How British Heavy Metal Conquered The World,” and it’s about the early days of heavy metal. Here’s the show’s description: Heavy metal fan Justin Lee Collins tells…
Political science
September 21st, 2009 at 9:50 pm by Dr. Drang
Over the weekend, Merlin Mann wrote a post praising Randy Newman. He included YouTube videos of two songs, “Sail Away” and “The Great Nations of Europe.” The latter is similar in style to my favorite Newman song, “Political Science,” which has been rolling through my mind ever since. There are several versions of it on…
