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chime9821: ALL HAIL ANGELA, FOR SHE IS FINALLY BACK FROM EUROPE!
Ashley (chime9821)
NPR. Last week on the night that Ben and I wer eon the phone really late...

David Levine (davelevine)
error. So now I'm thinking about getting an iPod, so I can download podcasts of NPR and other radio broadcasts that I enjoy listening to. If......
mystech: Modern-Day 'Slave Farms' in Florida
Mystech (mystech)
NPR Morning Edition) Florida lawmakers are looking into allegations that several of the state's farm labor...
solcita: good morning, good morning
anything but ordinary (solcita)
MRI on my ankle this morning. It went well enough; 30 minutes of listening to NPR through the headphones while the machine whirred and clunked, and I was done. There's ...
ernunnos: Misc.
everlastinggodstopper (ernunnos)
profiler to figure out who bears a little extra watching? I heard several people on NPR today use the interrogative "how come" instead of "why". I'm from the midwest and I...
atomshy (in possiblenines): tattooed lord love bird
atomshy (atomshy)
years just like keith and mick and the stones) - i heard this on an npr story about the bird, which is a brilliant story, and i recommend listening to ...
fanaf
fanaf (fanaf)
npr.org/worldopinion/20050708_worldopinion_london.html i thought this was pretty interesting......
silvrspazbubble: YES! *pump fist*
proud keeper of the One...Pocketwatch (silvrspazbubble)
Your Inner European? I always new I belonged there!! ^^ Ginny's here. (we got "interviewd" for NPR earlier; of course I would botch it...urgh) She'sa gonna a-help me put mah costume togetha!!...
brerandalopex: Priceless?
Brer & Alopex (brerandalopex)
orders to pontificate something I heard the other day while driving around listening to NPR... They had a story about the tendency of developers to buy up "old" houses in...
strange_cube: The guy's name is Ranald MacDonald.
John Tanzer (strange_cube)
London's Boisdale restaurant -- which specializes in Scottish-French cuisine -- responds to Chirac's comments." From NPR. There is an audio file of Mr. MacDonald's reply too. I can't get it to...
niemeyer06
niemeyer06 (niemeyer06)
showered. I came to the DM office to pimp the internet and I listened to NPR. Also, I defeated Great Tiger and a couple others on Punch-Out. Good times. So, ...
rringram: More Politics
rringram (rringram)
NPR (on "On the Media") someone interviewed the editor of an Ohio-based newspaper. The editor explained...
armoire_man: Chug! Chug! Chug!
Ricardo non-Montalban (armoire_man)
NPR story about the girl who bought the new Harry Potter book at one of the...
614south: finally here
614south (614south)
the beer being some sort of brown ale named after someone's dog. seinfeld has happened, npr has happened, and so have belated birthday wishes. what hasn't happened is sex, mail, ...
tangelina
Tangelina (tangelina)
bon magnet. I remember hearing a young soldier, recently returned from Iraq, tell an NPR reporter how much he loathed those magnets, especially when they were affixed to a ...
conndraka: A Post I Made on RPOL
Jason M. Bowles (conndraka)
the JFK assasination. And "miracle cure" snake oil sites are as frequent as legitimate information sites. http://www.npr.org/healthscience/aids2004/?sourceCode=gaw is over a year old but has some good information, espescially on the impact ...
internautte: perspektiv.
too young to fall asleep (internautte)
children, but goddammit, they're still fucking starving. thanks global fucking warming. this morning on NPR, i heard a two supposedly heart-warming human interest stories about: 1) arnold schwarzenegger's body gu...
espeoneefi: totem-gstreamer not ready for primetime
EspeonEefi (espeoneefi)
DLLs itself, a capability needed to play some proprietary formats like RealAudio (needed for NPR online clips). There is an experimental plugin for gstreamer that will load DLLs, but it...
gopunk: john g roberts jr
gopunky (gopunk)
supreme court justices will have graduated from HLS :D judging from what i've heard on NPR, he sounds like a good guy... on the conservative side of things, but not part...
krypton_35
krypton_35 (krypton_35)
NPR rocks my boat. I'm scared about my future academic goals.......
cephisus: improv comic
Reki (cephisus)
npr junkie. everyone likes to kick adam. hari says no. sarah is prettier than rob. nicole: 1 brooke: 0 danielle...
poohbear72579: A fond daydream of mine... feel free to ignore
poohbear72579 (poohbear72579)
but it could be the weekend, who knows. He's reached over and turned on NPR while simultaneously knocking the cat off the bed and we're listening to the news ...
divinetrinity: I wish I had text messaging.
Trinity (divinetrinity)
to make it even better, I'm going to fall asleep to the jazz playing on NPR, very soothing. Goodnight.......
caterwauling_ak
Anna (caterwauling_ak)
ing, though it's been a while for bothMovie ?boondock saintsTV Show ?family guyRadio Station ?89.9 NPR & 102.9 The PointType of Chocolate ?Dark!!Eye Color ?GreenDo you/Have you ever....Have any pets ...
drallil: i dont understand all of these, but on a whole i thought it was hilarious
drallil (drallil)
don't salure Bill O'Reilly at the beginning of "The O'Reilly Factor" [03] You listen to NPR (24/7 Geek Radio, oh yeah, that's awesome) [04] You think you may have once engaged in...
blusirena
choking on rose petals (blusirena)
it with you!!! this article is an update of how the unlikely friends are doing !!!!!http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4754996......
kmccabe17: I heart Ira Glass
Tron (kmccabe17)
NPR is the commentators identifying the station after each program it comes across the waves very...
dsrotj
dsrotj (dsrotj)
NPR's Talk of the Nation did a piece on Jimmy yesterday, and here's a link to...
alexallison: what do ya know?!
alexa priddy (alexallison)
Sooo...I have just been listening to Michael Feldman's "What do you know?" on NPR. I LOVE that show. It's the type of humor and exchange that I...
jackblackattack: Yeah I called in sick to work...what what bitches
Emily (jackblackattack)
pictures up but I can't figure out how. Tomorrow I'm goin to Crystals house in NPR! Should be some goos times there. Christina and Sarah are coming in August! Yet ...
scarlett723: lucky day
We were promised gratification!! (scarlett723)
I are both fans of public radio and actually our first conversations were about NPR). And if I win the lottery, I will be sure to make a donation...
designgirl: Things I have to keep track of and it's making my brain hurt.
designgirl (designgirl)
niques" 12. Rise in Terrorism 13. Judith Miller in Jail (mixed feelings) 14. That guy in charge of PBS/NPR 15. Expanded Drilling for Oil in Utah 16. Slacking off in the Meat Industry 17. GMOs 18. Pharmacist ...
mayica: Book recomendation
Jessica Maya (mayica)
NPR fame). It's set during the siege of Sarajevo in 1992; the main character,...
raskhusky: I'm mad.
Rask (raskhusky)
NPR, I heard a story about a pharmacist who denied a woman a prescription for contraceptives...
nimbleasanoun
nimbleasanoun (nimbleasanoun)
yesterday afternoon and back again this morning. It was a wonderful trip. I listened to NPR on the road this morning -- to reports about the shuttle launch today, the war,...
misanisa
misanisa (misanisa)
July 27 was when Barack Obama gave his amazing speech. You can hear them here: http://www.npr.org/politics/convention2004/dnc_schedule.html This weather is ridiculous. 101 degrees Fahrenheit AND a heat index of 103. ...
walkerj
John Walker (walkerj)
hy not issue a policy statement? Do I really share everyone on the right's annoyance with NPR & "Public" TV. Well, sorta maybe. I mean, the where-they're-coming-from is obnoxious, ...
azraeel: The Manual Minority
the Black Star, Azraeel (azraeel)
not scare the living shit out of you? I heard about the Verichip first on NPR this morning, then the same story again this evening. And it scares me shitless. ...
lovelylost
Lovely Lost Girl (lovelylost)
will be reliable for at least 3 years (a lifespan of a computer, or so NPR told me). The first month I had my Compaq, which has now completely ...
berlinfire: Stuff on my mind
Brian Berlin (berlinfire)
has no religious inclination (present company excepted, of course) How do you feel about politically/religiously disagreeable people? 2. NPR and Labor It irks me to no end to hear NPR prattling on and on......
aisa0: union style
none of the above (aisa0)
npr. one of the quick news blurbs was on the recent issues with the afl/cio...
possumbane: Chucklebot gets stoic
Paul Mathers le momo (possumbane)
NPR with Werner Herzog. He's got a new documentary out (I'm throwing this out there...
byu_byme: Holy crap!!!
byu_byme (byu_byme)
NPR. It's a tenth planet, fools! We've got ten now! Holy crap!! http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4778110 And I...
bacca359: NEWSFLASH: nalgenes make you gay
Bacca (bacca359)
NPR. The Polycarbons that make the plastic really hard leak toxins. These same toxins...
versonic (in sarahvowellfans)
Marti (versonic)
NPR reading "Sarah's Dad's Cannon" and immediately fell in love with her writing. I've read...
_moleasskiss
in the end (_moleasskiss)
was thinning on the back of my head. thanks grandma. i made a joke about NPR and Fox......
lulubisou
lulubisou (lulubisou)
was shipped out to the old folks' home and left in a room with only NPR and those twittering thumbs they call "budgies." ABANDONED. a few times a ...
taerin: Thistle & Shamrock! Woo!
taerin (taerin)
NPR station: Thistle & Shamrock, starting August 13th at 7. I am delighted. :-D......
raesflamingo: twinkies
raesflamingo (raesflamingo)
my question about which has a longer shelf-life, a twinkie or a condom, but this NPR story is great anyhow: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4780900 ... it's about a science teacher who has had ...
thisisgoodkarma
-->Lauren<-- (thisisgoodkarma)
we went to get a milkshake and listened to one of my favorite programs on NPR/PRI/WUWF because we all know that "Swing Chronicles" is one of the most happening radio ...
nekton: Friday line-up
Sara spelled without an h (nekton)
NPR one, this is the "South Shore's Radio Station") to record my workplace's September gardening tip...
stwish: Bluzez
stwish (stwish)
NPR is playing a segment on Clifftop Appalacian Music Fest going on right now in West...
rowankline: :) Today, I spent money for the first time in MONTHS
Rowan (rowankline)
NPR had this great segment on Motown on so, I bought a motown double cd because...
conradina: "Bye-bye Illini"
false rosemary (conradina)
NPR lead off its story tonight on NCAA's decision to prohibit teams with "hostile or abusive"...
imightbejohn: The Game
un homard avec les oreilles du lapin (imightbejohn)
NPR story on the film thingy I was working on. Stream it here. Update: Here is the Orlando Weekly article on "The Game."......
gailg: Interests Meme
Gail Gurman (gailg)
ading (13) 13. they might be giants (8) 4. dogs (11) 14. npr (7) 5. travel (11) 15. chocolate (7) 6. writing (10) ...
worldtensor: Моя квартира, mon amor.
Случайный читатель (worldtensor)
годовщина бомбёжки Хиросимы. В качестве будильника я использую радио, настроенное на одну из станций NPR. У нас слушаются две станции NPR: из Альбукёрки, что в 100-а милях от нас, и...
pjem: Monday morning
pjem (pjem)
to SuperAmerica for a gallon of skim...the upside is getting points towards dinner at Applebees. NPR reports the mayhem of the previous day including the 80th murder in Milwaukee. Without seeming...
xvfui
xvfui (xvfui)
The trouble with public library computers is, they run out of time. I'm a big NPR fan. If you're lucky enough to live in Cincinnati (hard to beleieve that could ...
binaca33: Back in NPR...
Joe (binaca33)
NPR after my whirlwind month in Italy. I arrived back after a greuling 8 hour...
taraspikefan: Things that me go, "Huh?"
Jen (taraspikefan)
by Paul Anka. Enough said, and you can hear the horror of it all here. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4755657 I think I need to wash my brain.......
spaz7875: waiting for Czar Ivan to get hisself online...I could go for some Chipotle,,,or maybe IHOP
Jordan (spaz7875)
about me: -I hate the radio; but if I have to listen to it, it's always NPR or the classical music station -on the inside I'm only five years old -I dance like ...
inquisitor
Dirty American Devil (inquisitor)
NPR today as he blathered on about how the compound eye *proves* there is an intelligence...
spacecat2000: Music Fun...
spacecat2000 (spacecat2000)
here's a track from a well know artist, Sufjan Stevens, but only appeared on an NPR piece once, that I know of.......
karnkarankaur: august 11 2005
karnkarankaur (karnkarankaur)
NPR has given me a gift. bill maher and chris whitley. condenced, articulate sanity and liquid emotion i guess...
sparkle_eyez: You Keep Your Dreams Locked Down Inside...
Marie (sparkle_eyez)
NPR!!! I don't know how many times I can say it. It has just renewed my...
yarn_and_yoga: Trying to get back to my "normal" rhythms ...
yarn_and_yoga (yarn_and_yoga)
alarm for 6 this morning. I might hve gotten up sooner, but the local NPR station was broadcasting some deep political/international thing that I couldn't quite make my brain ...
greenecogeek: All the lonely people, where do they all belong?
Mitch (greenecogeek)
NPR yesterday that a Canada Goose produces as much fecal output in a 24 hour period as a human, it really gets you thinking.........
lucky20me05
lucky20me05 (lucky20me05)
NPR! Gosh, I'm excited. I've been having a blast this summer chillen with so...
sela21k: My Home Page
sela21k (sela21k)
been a 'news wonk', so to speak. I love the information services, CNN, NPR, PBS, CSPAN, PRI - I can listen to or watch that stuff for hours. ...
supernova333
supernova333 (supernova333)
for two movies, played on Dave matthews newest cd (some devil), and has been on NPR!!! ahhhh!! soo awesome!) haha..he said i was looking at him like a fiddler, and ...
_robot_heart_
Jacqui (_robot_heart_)
? Oh, wait, it's Kentucky. That explains everything. In much better news that is actual news, NPR has started podcasting, as their deal with Audible apparently got derailed somehow. Here is ...
nurabella
Jana Svobodova (nurabella)
never end at Seoul cafe Oh my god, the cuteness. You all probably heard this on NPR this morning, but here it is with photos. I want that schnauzer! On Saturday ...
nemesisn72: Gaza
Lori (nemesisn72)
NPR on my way in to work as usual, and today they were discussing the evacuation...
mushnelle: Funny music!
mushnelle (mushnelle)
npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4755657 Listen to a crooner's version of Black Hole Sun and Smells Like Teen Spirit! and also, this is quite good: http://tinyurl.com/cdf82 It's Snoop Dog's Drop it like it's hot mixed with Eddie Cochran!......
madame_kali: NPR Geek
madame_kali (madame_kali)
NPR today and I found it very amusing. The story was about John Roberts and...
audreehorne
Sarah (audreehorne)
find out where and how to do that. I've just heard blips on npr and have seem a sign or two. For being 14 years old, it wa...
freethenukes: ACLU
freethenukes (freethenukes)
NPR on my way home from work this afternoon. They were talking about how the...
geographypirate: Reflections on Truth
Jonathan (geographypirate)
lot below and I bring up many topics. As always, please feel free to comment:   --------------------------------------- REFLECTIONS ON TRUTH NPR recently ran a story about the loss of truth in our society, lamenting that, "Turbo-charged...
_vavavavooom
_vavavavooom (_vavavavooom)
i wish i wasnt so mean to him. i miss josh. hopefully ill see him tomorrow. npr is tomorrow. subway.... drivethrough... who woulda thunk.........
mhicaoidh: Brits have drinking problem?
mhicaoidh (mhicaoidh)
have open some pubs 24 hours a day in England. Read a blurb from NPR, and listen to the Morning Edition story, at the link here. Now there are those ...
lookitsmegs: Current Events: Gaza
lookitsmegs (lookitsmegs)
this one is any less random. Today's topic: Current Events: Israel Leaves Gaza I love NPR (National Public Radio), because I think it is important to keep abreast of the goings...
biglilgeorge: Since it's Friday I'll post...
biglilgeorge (biglilgeorge)
met her at a gas station. Her name is Janine and see just moved to NPR in April. She is really cool and I like her dog, Rebel. She works ...
lisalicious
Lisa (lisalicious)
NPR the other day, and they were talking about a giant Spy vs Spy watergun fight...
l_archivist: Tiny Houses!
Angelique (l_archivist)
NPR this morning: http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/index.htm Gosh, I want a tiny house.......
gov_moonbeam: The Hold Steady
Snufkin (gov_moonbeam)
NPR just got aired last night.......
owktree: Seething Pots of Contradiction
owktree (owktree)
drivers are either maniacs, or idiots. I think this concept applies much wider. Had NPR on this morning and there was a story about goings on in southern Thailand. (synopsi...
reddjenn: noncontroversial update
reddjenn (reddjenn)
and are meeting all my expectations so far.  Not one of them listens to NPR, so I am working on getting them hooked.  I keep making fun of them (i...
lauradi7: thought for the day (or for the rest of my life)
lauradi7 (lauradi7)
NPR "This I believe" series "In my humdrum life, the daily battle hasn't been good...
lensovet: BBC news
Paul / Павел / lensovet (lensovet)
e too, just finished now lol. anyway, i was listening to the BBC broadcast airing on NPR and two things bothered me.first off, they were interviewing some guy from the US ...
lizzymama
lizzymama (lizzymama)
NPR over the weekend and learned that Bush has broken the record for most days spent...
richgoth: New Orleans Warned of Worst...
dispater (richgoth)
NPR.org, August 31, 2005 How haunting it must be for a news organization to fulfill its core...
jg26: Saving a sinking ship.
He who shall remain nameless (jg26)
can really talk about anything but Katrina? I've been listening to on-point this morning on npr. The point of the show was how and if New Orleans should be rebuilt....
beckyzoole: Newspeak
Becky (beckyzoole)
NPR this morning, George W. Bush said "I don't think anybody anticipated a breach in the...
zalix: This American Life Live!!
zalix (zalix)
the show since it's inception and of Ira Glass for year before that On NPR. I've never been to the live show before and the performers list isn't up ...
kowboy
Mister Curtis if you're Nasty (kowboy)
Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff stated yesterday in an interview with Mike Siegel on NPR's Talk of the Nation that a report by another NPR staffer with regards to the...
az_tashtego: J.G. Ballard in New Orleans
az_tashtego (az_tashtego)
wound for the world to see. It is not a pretty thing. A reporter from NPR that visited the Superdome Wednesday described a scene directly out of J.G. Ballard's......
awninged_emu: really quick
maude newgin (awninged_emu)
everything that isn't happening directly to me on campus. Right now I'm listening to NPR, because the dining hall TVs are always on baseball and we don't really have newspa...
raygunzzzap: mindless tasks
raygun (raygunzzzap)
last night i wandered around my apartment, re-straightening piles of stuff while listening to npr and muttering whenever they played a clip from bush. it doesn't help that i'm currently rea...
teep
teep (teep)
i haven't been able to think about anything else. yesterday i listened to npr nonstop. when i heard about the situation in the convention center, i almost ...
rayvenwahine: Pissed-Off American
rayvenwahine (rayvenwahine)
in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. I've looked at the Washington Post, the New York Times, NPR, and these sites: http://www.americablog.org/ http://www.crooksandliars.com/ (which from the title is obviously going to present a biased ...
dominiknet: Reflections of Katrina as Heard on NPR
Dominik (dominiknet)
NPR the other day and even after reading it as opposed to hearing it, I'm still...
surethinglady: hurricane news...sad
nina. (surethinglady)
said the Marshal Guard was coming...so hopefully they brought resources. But, a news reporter with NPR that was at the Houston Astrodome on Friday said the......
nw1: This Marie Antionette Moment brought to you by the letter B
Brendan (nw1)
NPR about the Katrina refugees, former first lady Barbara Bush said: What I'm hearing which is sort...
joliet2: What do you expect from a pig but a grunt, part deux
Billy (joliet2)
most everyone I’ve talked to says we're going to move to Houston," Barbara Bush told NPR. "What I’m hearing is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed ...
skepticpirate: man's best friend
Kate (skepticpirate)
NPR called up and asked what they could do to help the animals stranded in NO,...
mykul527: TGIF
mykul527 (mykul527)
Podcasts. I had downloaded a few of them before Tim suggested it. NPR has some, and I have found a few others that interest me. Work ou...
eighthblackbird: in the words of one former ssn member:
me (eighthblackbird)
NPR turned into Fox News." seeing as i'm probably sworn to legal silence for the rest of...
carleton97: Katrina
carleton97 (carleton97)
if they were above question. Yesterday in the car, and I were listening to NPR and a local actor/artist was......
dibl: BBC NPR update
dibl (dibl)
NPR Morning edition (less than 30) rtsp://real.npr.na-central.speedera.net:80/real.npr.na-central/me/20050909_me_01.rm Day2day (less than 20) rtsp://real.npr.na-central.speedera.net:80/real.npr.na-central/day/20050909_day_01.rm ATC (use nettransport) (less than 30) rtsp://real.npr.na-central.speedera.net:80/real.npr.na-central/atc/20050911_atc_01.rm......
hazelkate: dubya on the storm
hazelkate (hazelkate)
npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4843134 I'm going to go throwup now. Hazel......
sosayssarah
sosayssarah (sosayssarah)
I say that I CAN'T STAND Sandra Tsing Loh?! She is a commentator on NPR and she is aggravatingly obnoxious! She is under the impression that the more ...
wayfinding (in tourdefrancis): Leaving Britain
wayfinding (wayfinding)
supuesto). I started thinking about how much I couldn't wait to start listening to NPR again, but then I realised how much I have grown to love the BBC. I...
polywogsys: Sister Gertrude Morgan
polywogsys (polywogsys)
the city paper. I read this article yesterday, but I forwarded it on, because NPR had a story about it and her (Sister Gertrude Morgan) this morning and they ...
astrollama: beginning
astrollama (astrollama)
eaching science to middle school kiddos (what a blast!), I spend lots of time with NPR, The Nation, and assorted other news media. My brain spins with thoughts, but I ...
hauntednapkin
hauntednapkin (hauntednapkin)
would be for your listenership, let alone your resources. I faced an identical problem with NPR affiliates 89.5 FM WSCL, for whom you once worked, & 91.3 FM WESM back home on...
lilaneyj: sigh
lilaneyj (lilaneyj)
it. and i am excited! Because it allows me to sit and listen to talk radio NPR. They had a wonderful book review about "Lord of the Flies" it was wonderful! i ...
catiepos365: Robert's Confirmation Hearing
catiepos365 (catiepos365)
are bias not in what they present but how they present it. According to NPR, Roberts "avoids direct answers" and is "stoic". In the article from Sept. 13, ...
nolongersleepin: not to be cynical
Dana (nolongersleepin)
NPR yesterday (all things considered) and they were talking about hurricane rita and how fema and...
eyeofodin: You! Obey the Fist!
eyeofodin (eyeofodin)
Teaching experiment 5 today: Organic vapor sampling. Hurray! I need to stop listening to NPR at work. It always reminds me that were all doomed doomed doomed etc. *bell rings*...
loco_toro: More geeky-happiness
loco_toro (loco_toro)
pics of a giant squid in its natural habitate, 3000 feet deep in the northern Pacific. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4867933 To some, this is nothing more than all-you-can-eat calamari, but for me, it's "wicked cool, ...
yaa_coub: Letter to My Great Uncle
yaa_coub (yaa_coub)
nearly every day now, although I don't have good fortune to hear it on an NPR affiliate. For Kalamazoo, access to DN! falls to my side of the digital ...
afuckingjournal: I guess this is my Beat journal now
afuckingjournal (afuckingjournal)
50th anniversary of the first reading of "Howl," by Allen Ginsberg. I listened to NPR this morning before school and there was a segment about it, which included clips ...
ssandv: This week's sign of the apocalypse...
ssandv (ssandv)
NPR on the way home from work this evening, and they were playing an interview with...
roeberscheide: the comparaison doesn't match up...
roeberscheide (roeberscheide)
Lately I have had a lot of time to read the newspapers, and listen to NPR and I am tired of all the fucking politicians comparing disasters in third world nations ...
numb_boy
the collapsing jester (numb_boy)
npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4934043 A second opinion: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4860692......
shecountscrows: uhhh....
shecountscrows (shecountscrows)
just me...or is this the year of Natural Disasters? This morning I wake up, turn on NPR, and I'm told that the giant earthquake in Pakistan--the death toll is over 70,000 ...
patrickwonders: Using Irony For Financial Gain
Patrick (patrickwonders)
NPR pledge-week... I've been listening to other stations in the car rather than be being lambasted...
bossydude: I'm your Dam Guide
bossydude (bossydude)
With a dam in Massachusetts that is threatening to break, there was a story on NPR about the issue of dam safety. Now I spent the whole time snickering "Don't have a ...
stld: note to self
Sandra (stld)
npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4627437 Go home and record all these concerts then convert them to mp3s. I've decided to read files...
wilderabbit: plate, shrimp, plate of shrimp
white rabbit (wilderabbit)
fact about how Joe DiMaggio used to help sell Mr. Coffee. Within the half hour, NPR aired an interview with......
indiefan13
indiefan13 (indiefan13)
radio recording of a full "Death Cab For Cutie" concert from their current tour at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4963560 I Figured that I'd try to......
greysom: Read and Listen
greysom (greysom)
npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4988550 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4986776 This is a sampling of Today in the world I live in. It's not a...
runamyrun
runamyrun (runamyrun)
surprise because he's backed by people from all parties, I heard a woman on NPR from the Green Party yesterday who said she voted for him. Very odd but if...
crazyjenn18: 5 days left
crazyjenn18 (crazyjenn18)
in cathcing up on sleep and i've stuck to that :-D perhaps tomorrow i'll call my npr friends??..LMAO or NOT hahaha i enjoy doing nothing I've decided i'm calling everyone from leo tomorrow ...
cookie_fan1: niko ne misli na mene????????????????? a ja bolesna,,,,,, SMRC!
mia (cookie_fan1)
svi posli doma, osim dva prijatelja,,, pa eto, pravo vrijeme za pravit final projects i, npr. vjezbat cello (imam audiciju u pon...) eto, pozdrav domovini :}}}}}}}} pusica***********......
tallytoad7
Madmoiselle Natalie of Dafodillia (tallytoad7)
Austen's time. I give it five bright shiny stars. Go see it! Here is a great NPR recording about the film: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5009022 Hope you all had a......
summer_cumulus: Seriously.
summer_cumulus (summer_cumulus)
NPR tonight and feeling like utter dogshit (and that's an insult to the dog), UGH. Here's an...
meredythshea: I've gone crackers for cheese!
merryberry (meredythshea)
NPR today on the way to work and they were interviewing people about torture and the...
guaponose: An NPR piece that I enjoyed.
guaponose (guaponose)
NPR. It's like my favorite thing, ever. Right up there next to music. ...
shnowzr_lvr: Oy
calvin&hobbesrules (shnowzr_lvr)
feeling well for a few days. Right now I'm listening to WUNC (it's an NPR station) and they're talking about the "new" acoustic rock. Yeah, ok. New? ...
drkuro: Stubborn
creature, wolverine, god, etc. (drkuro)
the crummy things going on in the world, it’s kind of soothing to have NPR on in the background. It kind of reminds me of being at my grandmom and...
theprimeeights
Mark and Angie Prime Eight (theprimeeights)
NPR only to hear that Richard Pryor had died. I didn't know how to feel because...
hippo_takeover: out of sight
Parker X Transplant (hippo_takeover)
so dad and i were stuck with top 40 for the drive, with a little npr in there to keep us sane from hearing the same song 4 times an ...
miss_elaineous: iTunes
elaine (miss_elaineous)
Mouse 0:09 Longest Song: Goa Mix Silver - Paul Oakenfold 29:31 (and lots of comedy and NPR but that doesn't count) Sort by album First Album: D'Nell - 1st Magic Last Album: Matchbox 20 ...
aparigraha (in gradschool_hell)
aparigraha (aparigraha)
npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5053416......
chrisfs: Got this in the mail today
Chris (chrisfs)
nprofit organization if... * Your holiday parties are held in the board room ...
iwantedtobereal: secrets
iwantedtobereal (iwantedtobereal)
half wanted him to die so i could hear if his death was announced on npr. i have ugly ugly stretch marks on my stomach. my fantasy of the moment: wrapping ...
tawnygnosis: New Things
Pallas (tawnygnosis)
what I'm doing right now and live in the moment. I think I'll attend the NPR career/intern fair in January. I would love to be a newswriter or a radio ...
angeltemptress9
youngatheartgirl (angeltemptress9)
to listen to "Rudolph" in Latin--his name even sounds strange when sung during the piece. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5062519......
corsetra: Politics
corsetra (corsetra)
I wake up to good news on the radio today. My husband's alarm gos off to NPR (National Public Radio)in the morning. The story was the government asking that all court cases ...
carol_da_queen: Lost a few days there
carol_da_queen (carol_da_queen)
my sorrows in the pleasures of the Food Channel, napping, eating chicken soup, weak tea, NPR and cherry cough drops. Woo hoo...can I possibly handle any more excitement? Truthfully...I feel ...
medbsbraid
Righteous Babe (medbsbraid)
fried, with stirfried broccoli. I feel so healthy it's almost sickening. Homework is my nemesis. But NPR is my friend. First Iron and Wine, the Thea Gilmore, now KT Tunstall. I love...
whytechocolate: What I Managed To Remember from Today and Yesterday
whytechocolate (whytechocolate)
to go if you want to have an illegal sex change operation. Heard this on NPR. Note to self: stop listening to NPR. I'm sure its a very profitable business, ...
femonky: The Cosmos is talking to me?
Xander V. (femonky)
20 minutes. The lighting techs we bad-ass... I'm in the wrong damn bidness.. then Frekaing NPR is interview Robert Redford about the 25th aniv of the Sundance Institute! So... I'm goin...
nitasee
Molly B. Damned (nitasee)
NPR mostly. CNN secondly. Generally I'm pretty underwhelmed with most U.S. news media. ...
rach1983: (No) Coffee and Donuts
rach1983 (rach1983)
for me, two chocolate-frosted for him) and retreated to the car. We listened to NPR and licked our fingers and played "guess-what-kind-he's-getting" for each construction worker that arrived for ...
troyworks: Local: SRL returns to Los Angeles to rape your iPod on Jan. 21
TroyToy (troyworks)
PM. Info, more info. BYOE (bring your own earplugs). Previously on Boing Boing: Xeni Tech on NPR: SRL's robotic mayhemMore old BB posts about SRL Update: The SRL team......
jrydin: Couldn't you?
Jen Rydin (jrydin)
nails (after quitting for a year) eating Mexican Pile* (I've been working late this week) Listening to NPR eating chocolate covered coffee beans watching old episodes of Lost feeling cold 24/7 and wearing my coat ...
russkiypenguin: CNN with Nancy Grace
Russkiy Penguin (russkiypenguin)
n something. Now you guys let any idiot on the airwaves. Thank god NPR picked up your slack so I can at least get some real news without ...
amberfi: geek squad membership application form.
Amber (amberfi)
Channel. Now it's the Art section of the Times (i read like, every article) and NPR. I fucking......
radiation88: Rich people should walk, or how I found my flash drive
funded entirely by parking-ticket revenues (radiation88)
NPR story about Tibetian buddhism and the ritual of circumventing sacred mountains. In the backseat of...
pointedview: The cheese course
Banshee (pointedview)
NPR article about cheese by the author of the Chocolate and Zucchini blog. I've...
lotusmantra
deva (lotusmantra)
npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5163806......
walrusbeppy
The closet hopeless romantic (walrusbeppy)
gave me morhpine (wheee) and that tamaflu stuff I keep hearing about on the NPR. I haven't been this sick in at least 10 years. I'm getting back...
merorganizat975: Ivf Grants, Herbs For Infertility, Crosurgery And
merorganizat975 (merorganizat975)
TPMCafe Fertility Coverage In Connecticut ... reader blogs fertility coverage in connecticut by calguy npr ran a story today on the new connecticut law there is. More info on Ivf...
volvocowgirl
Demi (volvocowgirl)
is long. The speaker is right over my desk too. Thank god for NPR and headphones at least. 3) people get really excited about "jeans days". Bizarre. ...
l_aurens: depressing news and then... an ego boost!
l_aurens (l_aurens)
two very depressing things. Before you tell me that dude, I was listening to NPR, of course I'm depressed (is it a cause or a symptom?), let me tell you...
madame_liscious: ho-hum
cunt a liscious, Momma, Slut-Puppy #7, Girl (madame_liscious)
NPR. it makes me sad. we had such an amazing time. ho-hum.......
dethlark
The Anti-Pope Jon Paul II (dethlark)
backing off would have homosexual connotations. No hard feelings?" This certainly won't lead to anything bad either:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5165530......
ttocsland: 57 degrees...
TTocs (ttocsland)
s to the effects to my hard core cautious rebel approach to motobikin'! I listened to NPR in my left ear. Egad! My right ear was the usual multi-colored foam ear plug! But ...
sunjun
SunJ (sunjun)
(hanzi/hanja/kanji... whatever flavor you prefer) by the Western world. http://www.hanzismatter.com/ (I heard it on NPR) Some of them are just simple cases......
ommkarja: c'est ne pas une pipe
Artemis (ommkarja)
NPR on my way to work this morning I heard part of a discussion about the...
jetgrrl01
Jet (jetgrrl01)
NPR about Jens Lekman, I downloaded some of his music from iTunes. I'm finding it like...
siriuswitter: wow, things have been a real pile of suck lately
rochelle (siriuswitter)
npr that january 24th was the most depressing day of the year. all i have to...
beyondtherain: something NOT on ebay or in my local library
sarah (beyondtherain)
npr this morning about an upcoming movie: "Tristam Shandy: a cock and bull story" The...
kb4wyr: Moments of Shared Trust
kb4wyr (kb4wyr)
npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5165229 The link above is to Warren Christopher's contribution to NPRs "This I Believe" series. I like his take on moments of shared trust versus moment of fear. Now if I can only practice.......
5secondstoholdu: homeless people have cell phones and laptops
L O R I (5secondstoholdu)
npr. anywho, the thing is the fact that i'm asian is like just a technicality....
theshaggyfreak: I went to NPR and all I got was this lousy
Shaggy (theshaggyfreak)
So, from a tip that I got in class yesterday, I found out that NPR was having an internship career fair today. I decided to go down and ...
jasoneppink: Did Mozart invent aleatoric music? Not a chance!
Jason Eppink (jasoneppink)
no one came. Why does no one come to my dead composer birthday parties? Anyway, NPR couldn't contain its collective excitement. One of their stories discussed Mozart's love of ...
thejenturner
Jen! (thejenturner)
npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5165365 I LOVE MY JOB!......
lochan
Lochan (lochan)
smith probably won't find this funny. norton vs. clean access! also, carl castle this moring on npr: President Bush has said he's going to campaign for Republicans this election season, but the...
yavicleus: Democratic Leadership, or lack thereof
Aaron Smith (yavicleus)
NPR about Nancy Pelosy's pre-State of the Union rebuttal to Bush. I can't remember it...
langston: Babies Are For Eating
Chris (langston)
delve too much into national politics. This morning the first thing to pop up on NPR was about Alito's confirmation to the Supreme Court. Flash to reading the SLOG and ...
sugottopua: bull crap
cunted creature (sugottopua)
stand him; but i need to be aware of the nonsense he's spewing. i don't think npr should air it because they advertise "...intelligent talk..." i can't imagine anything coming out of ...
ian_gunn: politics
ian_gunn (ian_gunn)
NPR this morning was, paraphrasing here, "The president says we can not shirk our international obligations"....
wowtheworm: REALITY CHECK
amy barf (wowtheworm)
NPR, they were talking about how they can't find Osama Bin Laden, and I said, out...
shades0077: This is my two hundred twenty-fifth entry.
Hutch (shades0077)
really cool. He also has excellent taste in music. He directed me to NPR's website, where they apparently have live concerts available for download/streaming purposes. Bands like ...
shagbark: Congress vandalizes Wikipedia
shagbark (shagbark)
NPR says that Wikipedia, which has always been open to changes from anyone, today barred computers...
rfrancis: One more thing...
R. Francis Smith (rfrancis)
NPR story, you know. It's here. -R......
innocenteexpres: i tried really hard, but i couldn't find a connection between these two things.
your girl, she's a renegade (innocenteexpres)
NPR after all things considered. market place? i was like, uh....travis? my boobs are getting bigger. i'm...
duodecimo: welcome to agrabah, city of mystery! of enchantment!
phil (duodecimo)
NPR.com(org?) and downloading the colin meloy concert. it's free! and it's an hour and a half...
imfinite: Metal Song Desk Calendar
erin (imfinite)
minor things at work. It's kind of fun! I'm not complaining! So, NPR confirmed my fears this morning: megadoses of Vitamin C do nothing but make you ...
zincandcopper: news flash
zincandcopper (zincandcopper)
NPR with Owen Bennett Jones. There's something about hearing world news spoken with a British accent that makes it all seem so civil.......
floyd: Sunday sunday sunday
Floyd (floyd)
got through filing about half of my inbox while playing WoW and listening to NPR - probably not the most efficient way to get things done, but it worked. I...
knastymike: I was born to be adored by women.
Knasty Mike (knastymike)
regular music stations that I like on the air, I've taken to listening to NPR as much as I listen to anything else in the Honda. This led me...
atthis: Sept. 11
Dissonant Counterpoint (atthis)
in my room in a house in Thornton (or was it Westminster) listening to NPR and after the first plane hit I wandered out to the kitchen and told ...
option686: get your spriograph and other such instraments ready...
option686 (option686)
NPR this morning listen to the last 15 seconds of this clip: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5193566 worlds of messed up.......
ajmcoqui: We are family
ajmcoqui (ajmcoqui)
NPR this morning that was really fascinating to me: while previous medical conventions suggested that...
montanajen: Oh my God. Oh my...
Fun with Numbers (montanajen)
I just can't. This is something about which I'm becoming a bit more knowledgable. NPR did a radio documentary on this sort of behavior a while back, and I've read...
vampromero: Foghorns aplenty.
vampromero (vampromero)
NPR (AR, I think) that a foghorn in Monterey is malfunctioning, and cannot be turned off. That's...
cervrok: old-skool funnage
Juliet (cervrok)
give you a laugh, my poor stressed out f-list. ;) ********** The 'Car Talk' show (on NPR) with Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers have a feature called the 'Puzzler', and t...
kater_hater: Live Stuff
k (kater_hater)
loads to listen to but here is the KoL live set from Washington DC's 9.30 Club: NPR-KoL (live) It sounds like the arrival of Christ at the start. And gee, Caleb sounds quite ...
antimatter: jazz anyone?
antimatter (antimatter)
weekly archived show in mp3 is here: http://www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=12497 KPFA is a Pacifica station. Non profit, non NPR-- since they do not take......
memeurgy: EverTax
memeurgy (memeurgy)
NPR about a guy who was figuring out his taxes, which included income for selling virtual...
nyartist25: TV and Pills
Digital Halide (nyartist25)
a good episode, and it happened to tie in with a story I heard on NPR during the drive home. Both had to do with the sale and trade of ...
rapha: New England and snow.
raphaela (rapha)
NPR just used the word "blizzard". *sigh* I like that http://weather.boston.com/extended.html hasn't put down storm totals,...
silverthief2: What I'm goan do with all that junk, all that junk inside my trunk.
jonathan (silverthief2)
NPR, Please do not play 50 Cent during transitions between news segments. It does not make...
schoolisover
basil... yes dear? (schoolisover)
NPR on the way home from work today and Danica McKellar (Winnie Cooper from the Wonder...
theinfinitew: OMGROTFLMAORIMOD
David Nance (theinfinitew)
and their GRADMA has seen that they even talk about it on the news and NPR? Well here ya go! MySpace, The Movie! From, yes, the same site that has a link ...
flyswatter: Twisted Trailers!
A Human-Animal Hybrid (flyswatter)
This is actually Taxi Driver and is therefore quite Granny-Unsafe. Article on trailer spoofs on today's NPR Weekend Edition The article is dial-up friendly. The trailers are not.......
erinubear: Rest in Peace, Dr. Norman Shumway
ErinBear (erinubear)
NPR that pioneering surgeon, Dr. Norman Shumway, had passed away this week after a bout with...
nariposa: New olympic sport -- pair blogging!
nariposa (nariposa)
apartment -- and still using IM as the primary mode of communication. That and grunts. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5204627 (courtesy of nationelectric)......
john_arundel: So, in the news today
Peter Taylor (john_arundel)
NPR* this morning - and was horrified to hear – in quick succession, that 50% of...
razrangel: I'd like to kiss this man
razrangel (razrangel)
NPR this morning and it immediately brought down a storm of tears. THAT is sportsmanship. Compassion Rules!......
str8ontilmornin
str8ontilmornin (str8ontilmornin)
awesome!" at my car stereo and in turn, Cheek after I heard the story on NPR.  Sometimes we all actually do share this world.......
rayde: *sigh*-kic
Scott (rayde)
ability or there's some wierd coincidence. but how random is this. i'm listening to NPR, which i've been doing quite a lot lately, as I've found I get much more...
xljisretardedx
hedwig the hedgehog (xljisretardedx)
his from ? Who lives in Baltimore! Not Boston! Why did it have to be an NPR story from Friday to tell me that students at the college at which I ...
riotgrrlscout
The Sensational She-Nerd (riotgrrlscout)
NPR is about the science (especially physics) of comic book heroes. Awwwwwwww GEEK OUT!......
gacktshrimp
Jacqueline (gacktshrimp)
NPR about "snakes on a plane" XD an (aproximate) quote from Samuel: "Some people are afraid of...
beautyisanimate: By way of an answer...
beautyisanimate (beautyisanimate)
NPR.org, December 20, 2005 · Wiretapping is as old as the telephone itself. Yet the laws...
beccacheese
Rebecca Chase (beccacheese)
of burning cds from the library. Today's picks include Bill Frisell Abdullah Ibrahim/Dollar Brand Robert Johnson Bob Dylan Bootlegs an NPR biography of Malcom X and a CD of Kurdish music produced by french sympathizers, who happen...
imitari: New 'Awlins
imitari (imitari)
curious, New Orleans. Big city. Running errands is an all day affair involving NPR, yelling at NPR, yelling at other drivers (Nobody down here can drive), trying to ...
sbudominatrix: Intolerant of Intolerance
sbudominatrix (sbudominatrix)
NPR. Yes, I listen to NPR. Shut up. Anyway, I was late and they weren't playing...
satakieli: Holiday? What Holiday?
satakieli (satakieli)
early in the morning anyway; this is probably a good thing. Thank goodness for NPR, though, or I might have only found out by wondering why......
oftheeye: healthful
oftheeye (oftheeye)
npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5053576 I had heard this on one of Science Friday's podcasts where the man from Mars was...
autochef
autochef (autochef)
NPR on the way home from work, listeners heard Mississippi governor Haley Barbour talking about some...
p_cimorene: Just you wait, 'Enry 'Iggins.
the fool on the hill (p_cimorene)
NPR Show About Speech and Accents.......
trevacious: Huh?
Trevor (trevacious)
NPR News over the weekend. In short, Cheney was greeted back in his home state of Wyoming...
thassalia: Sending out an SOS
Thea (thassalia)
from home. Stop. The telegraph is officially dead. Stop. No Really. I heard it on NPR. Stop. Still trapped. Stop. Send Porn. Stop. And cat wranglers. Stop. Nothing says ...
the_swordsman: How we change.
The Swordsman (the_swordsman)
NPR stations here in Michigan. It was on a Saturday night. My God. Have you EVER...
sun_in_splendor: I agree to with President Bush....does that make me a bad person?
Kreed (sun_in_splendor)
security is put on place. The problem isn't foreign control of port operations. On NPR yesterday they were saying that 80% of US ports are already operated by foreign c...
frozenstrawberi
Angela (frozenstrawberi)
NPR in the morning while I drive, and yesterday they did a story on this amazing...
unreverently306: Fostimon focused info all about fertility
unreverently306 (unreverently306)
npr ran a story today on the new connecticut law there is an estimate of 7080,000...
chefchip: Anti Gay people are amazing
rubber biscuit (chefchip)
NPR and they were discussing how many states are trying to ban adoption by gay parents....
sweet_gardenia: the magnolia fatback folk hour, your host Gardenia...
sweet_gardenia (sweet_gardenia)
some dinner from Mickey's D's. While I was riding down the road I had NPR on and it was the Magnolia Fatback Folk Hour which has got to be the...
stufey: oh yeah this is here :P
stephanie (stufey)
running your own business papers and 3 more news articles and 3 business reports from NPR for business. 3-4 more quizes too.. -1 paper and 1 quiz left for health Job situation? Applied......
socioecoboy: Isn't it great?
socioecoboy (socioecoboy)
NPR). I was way to consumed by what's been going on in the U.S. since 9/11/01....
twinkletoze: Slow start
Twinkletoze (twinkletoze)
on my couch listening to stuff about public transportation and Russia on the Washington NPR station and noodling online for 2.5 hours. I need to shower and get out...
snk1414
just keep on walking (snk1414)
while, of course that rarely happens here anyway. I took the radio and listened to NPR pretty much all morning. On Point featured a straight white new england woman who ...
papa_john: 'Misirlou,' from Klezmer to Surf Guitar
Papa John (papa_john)
on Lionel Ziprin's efforts to preserve the recordings of his grandfather, Rabbi Nuftali Zvi Margolies Abulafia. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5134530......
mrfellow: Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated.
T. J. O'Pootertoot (mrfellow)
NPR, like all good pseudo-intellectuals these days. Anyhoo, Michael Krasny was interviewing Sandra Gilbert about...
kmo: Rule of Threes
KMO (kmo)
npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5249942......
midwinter
Emily (midwinter)
NPR just called Pompeii "a chilling reminder of how deadly volcanoes can be." Because I was going...
calbaer: Exodus
calbaer (calbaer)
NPR had a show about the little-discussed decline of Christians in the Middle East. ...
kari_sucks
maddernhell (kari_sucks)
t read on Talk of the Nation! Oohhh I got so excited! I listen to npr all day, but I'd never written in before. yay!......
acrylicevening: one hundred words, twice.
alexaµdre (acrylicevening)
ouldn't be any different because if i had a shortwave radio i could pick up npr from america and perhaps i'd feel the same thing, except it would not be ...
renefrost
renefrost (renefrost)
a class and discussion on writing personal belief statements like the ones they read on NPR.  the project started long ago and has a fine history.  a number of famous ...
meakerc: Music
meakerc (meakerc)
NPR and could be pretty good.......