Radio feeds
How to waste one's 'broadband' traffic quota: listen to radio feeds!
[Listening to: Concerto in C (in the style of Vivaldi): Andante doloroso -- Fritz Kreisler -- Fritz Kreisler Edition (04:07)]
[Listening to: Imagine Me Without You (LP Version) -- Jaci Velasquez -- Crystal Clear (04:10)]
[Listening to: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op 61: Wedding March -- Aaron Rosand -- The Story Of Mendelssohn (01:32)]
[Listening to: WFUV Stream]
[Listening to: God Of Wonders -- Rebecca St James -- Worship God (04:13)]
(Yes, I do have a QuickTime and RealAudio player installed somewhere, the latter for Humour Australia tracks primarily, and the former for some video clips from school, but it seems, alas or otherwise, Microsoft have the best feeds.)
[Listening to: Messiah Highlights: Hallelujah! -- Sir Thomas Beecham -- Händel: Messiah - Highlights (03:33)]
[Listening to: I Could Sing Of Your Love Forever -- Sonicflood -- Sonicpraise (04:47)]
[Listening to: You Are So Good To Me -- Third Day -- Offerings II: All I Have to Give (04:02)]
[Listening to: 50/50 -- Metal Urbain -- Anarchy In Paris (02:45)]
[Listening to: audioad9 -- Steven Curtis Chapman -- All Things New (00:11)]
[Listening to: Passenger Side (LP Version) -- Wilco -- Wilco A.M. (03:34)]
But, the best feed on the Microsoft list, of course, is...
[Listening to: BBC News -- Yahoo! Broadcast]
On the subject of wasting my broadband traffic and Telecom, their Rex & Molly site has me suspicious. It just doesn't seem right...
News wise, here's an afternoon roundup. Quite a lot of gender- and sexuality-related stories at the New York Times this week, it seems.
- Web attacks surge during school holidays: isn't that a bit obvious?
- Positive futures for young New Zealanders: more on the Youth Transition Services scheme.
- Where Popular Science Is Called Women's Work:
A private all-female institution for Grades 7 through 12 in Los Angeles is a forceful rejoinder to conventional assumptions about women and science.
- Christian College Secludes Students After Hate Letters:
Scores of African-American and Hispanic students at a small Evangelical Christian college were set to spend a second night in seclusion, after a series of threatening racist letters.
- A Group at Princeton Where 'No' Means 'Entirely No':
Yet another alternate sexual lifestyle is being promoted by a group of Princeton undergraduates: one of chastity and abstinence outside of marriage.
- Your Child Got Into an Ivy! Do You Have to Say Yes?
For many parents of high school seniors, it's the season of wondering where on earth the Fafsa gremlins got that bizarre "expected family contribution" number.
- For Women in Sciences, Slow Progress in Academia: now here's an interesting one, bearing out with what I've seen -- doctorates for women are up, but it's still mostly male university faculty out there.
- Intense Competition for Top Students Is Threatening Financial Aid Based on Need:
Universities' commitment to need-based financial aid is under siege, in part because of the sharp growth in the economic rewards of having a degree from an elite institution.
- School Pools, Now Dry Storage:
Of the 50 swimming pools inside New York City's 1,200 school buildings, 10 are in unusable shape.
Sounds like quite a few pools I know around here. - Pollutant affects sex chromosome:
An environmental pollutant can change the ratio of sperm carrying male and female chromosomes, a study says.
- Rare parrot receives special care:
The New Zealand kakapo is not out of danger, but its prospects are improved by a team of diligent volunteers.
- Utah Capitol building gets lift: I wonder if these are the same rubber bearings that Te Papa and Parliament Building in Wellington used in their earthquake protection installations?
[Listening to: Also Sprach Zarathustra (Sunrise) -- Saint Louis So/Walter Susskind -- 25 Thunderous Classics (01:43)]
[Listening to: Polonaise -- Moscow Symphony Orchestra -- Orchestral Works Volume 17 (05:02)]