Things I like currently that help me stay informed no matter where I am:
Podcasts! I totally dig free podcasts from national public radio and its affiliates. Its easy to download them using the iTunes search feature on my iPhone. You can also search for them on your regular iTunes on your PC. But just for kicks, I'll link some of my favorites.
NPR Podcast Directory has a variety of different podcasts.
Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me! is a hillarious and informative radio call-in game show/interview forum hosted by Peter Sagal.
Stuff You Missed in History Class from HowStuffWorks.com
Think Out Loud from Oregon Public Broadcasting
Audiobooks! It is SO easy to read Crime and Punishment when you can't escape it on your morning commute! Check out Marco Polo's hefty tome The Travels of Marco Polo from Audible.com. You have to create an account to purchase books from audible.com, but it's a good way to downoad digital audiobooks, especially if you go through a lot of them. Their website claims the average reader gets through only 5 books a year! I would be willing to guess that if they factored non-reading adults into that equation that it would be an even lower number.
HowStuffWorks.com! If you are addicted to surfing the internet, this should be on your RSS feed.
Hulu.com! Watch tv and movies for free online! And it's perfectly, undeniably legal, because the networks help fund it. Some of my favorites recently have been Crawford, a documentary of the town that our soon-to-be-ex-president Bush called home: it discusses the media, the place, and, most poignantly, the people (brought a tear to my eye! But then, so many things do) and The Times of Harvey Milk, an excellent Oscar-winning 1984 documentary about the first openly gay man to be elected to public office and his and mayor George Moscone's tragic assasinations.
Books! Good old-fashioned books. Right now I'm reading The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell.
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