Khoi Vinh on trying to hold onto (or worse, recapture) "the cool:"

Any time a media outlet publicly declares its intention to reach a younger demographic, chances are good that the results will make me cringe.

He's talking about NPR's Bryant Park Project, and how surprising it is that it doesn't include "jargon, zany sound effects or comedic narrative." He could be talking about newspapers, television or movies. I've read or seen too many horrible examples of 40-something suburban writing about 20-something urban trends.

Mostly, what (most) everyone comes up with is dumbing things down for a "younger" audience, adding a laugh track and calling it done. How insulting.

I don't really keep-up with podcasts, or lately, my RSS feeds and friends list, but when I have taken the time to catch up on a couple of podcasts, I find two music-related podcasts compelling tonics to the general pap of modern music:

NPR's All Songs Considered.

Bob Boilen directs All Things Considered. As part of the show, he's responsible for the bumps between stories NPR calls "Musical Interludes." He's also the host of the podcast/streaming only NPR show, All Songs Considered. The show has two sides. First, a generally weekly podcast that Boilen curates more than anything. In roughly half-an-hour, he'll run through six or seven songs, talk about what an artist is doing and why he's putting it in the show.

NPR had Glenn Reynolds, author of Outer Space: Problems of Law and Policy on.

Interestingly enough, if a crime is committed aboard the International Space Station, prosecution would depend on which module the crime occurred in, who committed it and whom it was committed against.

A spacewalking astronaut also qualifies as a "spacecraft" under maritime law. So, an attack on a U.S. spacewalking astronaut would fall under U.S. law.