Category Archives: Sample Podcasts

Podcast Sample: Idyllic Music

Like the Dave’s Lounge podcast that kicked off the Enfranchised Mind podcast feed, the Idyllic Music Podcast is a great podcast for coding tunes (even if the intro music does bass-out my headphones). It’s shorter than most other music podcasts, but the whole backlog is available, which is nice. The episode featured in the Enfranchised [...]

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Podcast Sample: Wil Wheaton and Penny Arcade playing Dungeons & Dragons

[Administrivia: I'm going to formalize the process a bit and place out sample podcasts once a month on the 1st. The the normal podcast feed will carry all the podcasts, including the samples. If your soul is wracked with suffering because of podcast samples, you can subscribe to this feed, which will only give you [...]

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Podcast Sample: Alan Watts Podcast

Alan Watts is a fascinating figure, and on the short list of role models for my aspiring career as an academic1. He groks the eastern sensibility of religion, but comes from a decidedly western context. Combining that with an apparently natural ease of conversation, he really makes the wider field of comparative religion accessible, engaging, [...]

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Podcast Sample: Berkeley course — PACS 164A

Berkeley podcasts/webcasts a lot of things (see here), including their classes. A life-changing podcast I picked up was PACS 164A: Introduction to Nonviolence. It was taught by Professor Michael Nagler, and goes over the theory and practice behind nonviolence. This podcast kicked off my interest in the Nonviolent Peaceforce, because it demonstrated a way to [...]

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NFJS Austin, or, Why I’ve Been Gunning for NFJS for Years

I’m going to be speaking at the No Fluff Just Stuff (NFJS) tour this weekend in Austin, Texas. Here are my sessions: two on concurrency, two on GORM/Grails. This is my first “full load” conference—I’m basically talking all day Sunday! Should be a blast. I’ve been positioning myself and my career to join the NFJS [...]

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