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…fox, or crazy like a bedbug? NEW YORK – Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling was taken to a Manhattan hospital early Friday after several people called police saying he was pulling on their clothes and accusing them of being FBI (news – web sites) agents, a police source told The Associated Press. Maybe the FBI is following him everywhere, and deploying agents with wires and concealed weapons. Or maybe they’re not, and he’s nuts.

MAJORITY REPORT RADIO, the last live show of the day over at Air America Radio. I’m kind of glad I missed the fart machine, but I did get a kick out of “backwards day at the White House.” That’s “http://www.majorityreportradio.com/”, everyone, they don’t announce the URL of the weblog often enough. The comments for each day are the place to be just now, but someone named Dave at ISU started an IRC channel for easier chatting: For the IE users: irc://us.undernet.org/MajorityReport otherwise, in your IRC client /server us.undernet.org /j #MajorityReport Interesting note from the website provider, from today’s thread (601…

Chicago Tribune | :NPR’s replacement of host Edwards met with wide criticism Yep, and there’re at least two online petition drives. One of them is SaveBobEdwards.com I’m still hoping it’s an extremely elaborate April Fools’ joke, but it doesn’t look that way. I wonder if my cousin Bill will make good on his threat to rescind his :NPR pledge over the issue?

Woops, here’s a cool thing or three: MAJORITY REPORT RADIO, the night show on Air America with Janeane Garofalo and Sam Seder, has its own blog. They mentioned Atrios by name, but there was some confusion over whether Atrios or someone else was interviewed. More radio news – hey, WXRT has a live feed now!! I’ve been looking for this for a while – the last time I checked was a few months back. Maybe I missed it, buried as it was in the lower left corner under all the screen chaff. But they’re an AOL broadband partner, and I…

Google’s at it again… Search is Number Two Online Activity – Email is Number One; “Heck, Yeah,” Say Google Founders MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – April 1, 2004 UTC – Amidst rampant media speculation, Google Inc. today announced it is testing a preview release of Gmail – a free search-based webmail service with a storage capacity of up to eight billion bits of information, the equivalent of 500,000 pages of email. Per user. The New York Times has it, so it must be true… heck, yeah! Check that dateline, NYT?

I’ve enjoyed listening to Air America/Al Franken et. al. today… that is, when I can pull in a decent signal on my crappy AM radio upstairs, or when the streaming audio happens to be working, but for the most part it’s been fun listening to it (especially today, when they’ve had some high-powered guests lined up). Most of the callers sound extremely surprised to find themselves on the air (and sound like they’re talk-radio call-in newbies). They’re not quite up to the calibre of, say, callers to :NPR’s “Wait, Wait! Don’t Tell Me.” Maybe it’ll improve. On a quick survey,…

Well, the link is live at AirAmericaRadio.Com, but they’re apparently operating under radio silence. However, it requires RealPlayer (rats!1) and of course it’s nagging me to update my version of same. Ugh. And it’s NOT going to be the default player for anything. So now after updating my apparently totally useless former version of Real Player, I can hear commercials, but no talk once they’re finished. This is probably not a good sign. Somebody’s head will be rolling merrily along soon. Edited to add:It seems to be working now. Okay. Maybe I’ll listen now and then at work… but I’ll…

Air America Radio goes live tomorrow at noon, according to their website – and they’ll be streaming audio, so I’ll be able to listen at work… but tomorrow I’m home, so I’ll give it a try and see if it’s awful, good, or awful good. That is, if this crazy experiment to bring liberal/left of center views to talk radio takes off, eh? It’s certainly gotten plenty of press. And if it doesn’t work, I’ll go on being one of 3 people in America that listens occasionally to “Le Show.” Although when we were in Utah, it was pledge week…

The most comforting voice in morning radio,Bob Edwards is getting bounced as :NPR Host. I’m really sad to hear this news, because Bob’s voice in the morning has been a familiar part of my morning routine for so long. I’ve been a regular listener of Morning Edition since at least the early 80’s. I have to date that kind of memory by where I was living at the time and whether or not I had a pet. Such are the vagaries of memory. But through it all, Bob Edwards’ voice on the clock radio was one of the few constants…