Ever since I discoverd podcasts I haven’t bothered complaining about my commute. These are the ones to which I’m currently subscribed.

Entertaining

Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo’s Film Reviews

Mark Kermode discusses the latest film releases with Simon Mayo. Lively, controversial and unmissable movie discussion. Broadcast live on Fridays at 2pm on BBC Radio 5 live. link

Basically this is a movie review show, each week they go throught Britain’s top 10 at the box office and review the upcoming movies. This has “boring-as-hell” written all over it, except it isn’t. If you take anything away from this list, let it be this one. If you like movies and don’t mind and an opiniated reviewer (with big hands) bookmark this and enjoy it. And hello to Jason Isaacs.

The Bugle - Audio Newspaper For A Visual World

Great Britain and the United States of America, two countries divided by the once-mighty Atlantic Ocean. However, John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman, fully-qualified Grand Masters of Satirical Jabber, will bridge that watery rift through the healing medium of link

Satirical look at current events and politics. I stopped reading political news because the Bugle’s version is better.

Jonathan Ross

Weekly highlights from Jonathan’s Saturday morning show on BBC Radio 2: Top name TV, film and music guests, plus Jonathan’s unbridled wit. link

This one is going to stop in a few weeks, as Jonathan Ross is leaving the BBC, Jonathan might qualify as the worlds worst interviewers as he’s consistently talking more than his guests, but when you can talk like Jonathan that’s nothing to worry about.

The Pipeline

The Pipeline is an interview show hosted by Dan Benjamin, talking with people who create things. Guests include Zeldman, Kottke, Vaynerchuk, Coudal, Mann, Siracusa, and more. link

Dan Benjamin interviews internet-celebrities. Only listened to the Kottke one but I’m hooked.

Scott Mills Daily

A daily slice of Scott, with more silly features, crank calls and Oh! What’s Occurring?, taken from his show every day on Radio 1 from 4pm to 7pm. link

This is my backup-podcast. If all the other haven been listened to I can safely fall back on this one, mindless chatter and some games. I’m a fan.

The Film Programme

Interviews and analysis from the world of cinema. Francine Stock talks to directors, writers and critics about the latest film releases, classics on DVD and movies on television. link

This one I don’t follow religuously, depends on who the guests are.

Technical

The Ruby Show

Once known as Rails Envy, The Ruby Show is the most popular and longest running Ruby and Ruby on Rails podcast, bringing news and discussion about the latest topics in the Ruby community, hosted by Jason Seifer and Dan Benjamin. link

Quick way to keep up with things in Ruby land.

The Changelog

The Changelog is a blog & weekly podcast that profiles what’s fresh and new in Open Source (FLOSS). Open Source moves fast. Keep up. link

Some good technical shows.

Late Night Cocoa

Late Night Cocoa is a podcast for novice and experienced Cocoa Developers. Each episode we interview a Cocoa developer to discuss a specific aspect of Cocoa Development. link

I’ve been listening to this one since they first came out, don’t really like the new format but still recommended to learn a bit on Cocoa.

Pragmatic Podcasts

Guiding You From Journeyman to Master link

I mostly skip this but the manage to produce a few nuggets once in a while.

Hanselminutes

Hanselminutes is a weekly audio talk show with noted web developer and technologist Scott Hanselman and hosted by Carl Franklin. Scott discusses utilities and tools, gives practical how-to advice, and discusses ASP.NET or Windows issues and workarounds. link

Started listening to this when he had a mac developer on the show and somehow forgot to unsubscribe, topics mainly include .NET, windows and more shenanigans like these. The stackoverflow-episode was good though.

The freezer

Sadly these shows seem to have stopped.

The Talk Show

The Talk Show with John Gruber and Dan Benjamin. link Gruber vs Benjamin. Nuff said.

The Rissington Podcast

A podcast about the web and other stuff link

Lovely use of English language, very rarely any real technical content but I liked it.

Stephen Fry’s PODGRAMS (Audio & Visual)

Stephen Fry, British actor, writer and director presents Stephen Fry's Podgrams. link

Listening to Stephen Fry is always worth it.

Core Intuition

Daniel Jalkut and Manton Reece discuss Mac programming, independent development, Apple news, and more. link

Mac devving.

Russell Brand

The Russell Brand show has finished and there won’t be any more podcasts from this programme. Thanks for your subscription. To find more podcasts from Radio 2, go to bbc.co.uk/radio2. link

I hated this the first time I heard it, then had to listen to it a few times in a row and I was hooked. His last episode was a team effort with Jonathan Ross in which they managed to upset Britain and Russell was fired from the BBC and Jonathan had to issue public apology. It was epic.

After closing the Sun deal and winning the America’s Cup race, Oracle chief executive officer, Larry Ellison, has the smug turned up past 11 all the way to 13. “Every quarter we grab huge chunks of market share from SAP,” Ellison said in the statement accompanying Oracle’s financials. “SAP’s most recent quarter was the best quarter of their year, only down 15 per cent, while Oracle’s application sales were up 21 per cent. But SAP is well ahead of us in the number of CEOs for this year, announcing their third and fourth, while we only had one.”

“We really think that SAP has lost its way, and if they don’t want to be number one, we do,” Ellison said in the conference call. Ellison said that Oracle would deliver its Fusion applications both on premise and as a service over the Web this year, something the company can do because it is built on Java and has rich industry functionality. SAP, by contrast, said Ellison, is based on the ABAP language, a 25-year-old technology that is at the heart of its application software, and SAP is not keeping pace with industry-specific functions. “We think SAP is vulnerable and we can take them on in a number of industries,” Ellison said.

• source (Emphasis mine)

Ellison has a nack for delivering quotables.

I came accross this tweet

Today Dr tells me my “ideal” weight is 165lbs. I then laughed in his face. My son is rail thin and weighs that.

I have no idea how much a lbs weighs, get with the program and use the metric system already, it did remind me of a post I meant to write a year ago, yes dear reader; this is that post. (Don’t think too hard about that it won’t make sense).

Units

• Step 1

Open your Terminal

• Step 2

Launch units (== type units)

• Step 3

Enter what you have (lbs) and what you want (kg)

• Bliss

• The aftermath

Units knows a lot of units, I use it twice a month, at most, but it’s a timesaver. More info on units: man units.

I’m trying out something new: a ridiculously large font size in my editor. By ridiculous I mean a 16pt DejaVuSansMono and after using it for 1 day I can honestly say I’m smitten by it.

I can see less code but the code I do see I can read with much more ease, which in my humble opinion is the lesser tradeof. So without further ado:

If you want to see it basking in its full glory, go here.

And to finish with a quote ( by @atog):

It’s like Web 2.0 in your editor.

And for the Emacs users out there:

(set-default-font "-apple-DejaVu_Sans_Mono-medium-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-")

The themes that have been floated truly reflect what people have been looking for years and it will change the way people think about PCs and the way they use them. It is the future of PCs…

on why Windows 8 will blow your mind

Themes will never change the way you use your PC, it will only change its looks. Car stereos suck for that exact reason, they’ve changed the theme (blue bars to orange bars) but they have never even attempted to change its UI paradigms.

I refuse to believe only Apple is smart enough to get this stuff but where are the drop-dead-simple car stereos and TV’s of the future ?