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Here is a really good Frontline on the cheap airline industry.

Interesting talk at Harvard with Steven Colbert.

So I've jumped on the podcast bandwagon. I figure bicycling to work I might as well listen to something more useful than music. One show I really like is Bill Moyers' Faith & Reason. I've always loved his interviews and this show always has the most interesting people. One moment he may be interviewing a devout Christian, and just a few minutes later a vocal atheist. It's all very interesting and insightful.

Back in FL I used to have satellite (Dish network) with HD channels. Nowadays cable is providing "HD" channels as well. I have Comcast in CA.

Here's my problem with cable HD: whenever there is alot of motion on the screen, the image becomes visibly pixellated, much worse than non-HD! I believe this must be some sort of bandwidth problem and cable TV. Looks great if you are looking at fairly still images, but any action and it's just crap.

Maybe it is the crappy Tivo-wannabe that is my cable box that's doing it. But anyway, if you are thinking of getting a HDTV, you really should go with satellite instead of cable unless you can accept sub-par image resolution.

It appears ABC World News will be broadcasting from Google tonight. Check your local listings.

Hah, can't believe I didn't catch this video.