Slashdot Review podcast. Two new Kuiper-Belt objects.
Submitted by Robert Daeley on Sat, 2005-07-30 00:00.
OK, perhaps I’m missing something, but there’s this podcast, Slashdot Review, in which a guy by the name of Andrew McCaskey reads Slashdot article summaries. Granted, he’s got a good radio voice, but all he does is reads the front page of the site, then plays a song. Takes about 15 minutes for the whole thing.
Even assuming this is for folks on the go — grabbing a podcast feed for their pod — couldn’t you just snag the /. rss feed or even use their PDA interface? Visually scan the stories in a few seconds instead of waiting for someone to interpret the text for you (since McCaskey doesn’t exactly read the stories word-for-word).
I dunno — to each their own, I suppose.
Missed by me in the last couple of days (see 2005 07 29) is that there were actually two new Kuiper-Belt objects announced. The aforementioned 2003 EL61, and the other: 2003 UB313. Awesome!
Astronomy Picture of the day for 2005 07 31 is of 2003 UB313.
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