Radio Lab and The Sound of Young America, together at last

Last summer I wrote about how great Radio Lab is. Earlier this month I called The Sound of Young America “my new favourite radio show.”

So imagine my delight when I heard Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich’s appearance on The Sound of Young America. If you’re at all a fan of either show, grab this episode. There’s some great radio-making insight here.

Me on GO! this weekend

Need a reason to wake up super-early on a Saturday morning, trudge out into Toronto’s frigid February cold, and visit the CBC Broadcast Centre for a taping of GO?

I’ll give you three:

• The kalimba stylings of Laura Barrett
• Something called a “Facebook Faceoff”
• Me

I’m on GO this weekend and next. Free tickets are still available for both shows.

Jim Dupree: Photography Enthusiast

Hands down, Jim Dupree: Photography Enthusiast (released yesterday) is the best episode released this season, and in my opinion, closest to “vintage Dupree.” If you’ve been holding out on watching the exciting fourth season, wait no longer:

What do you do with misdirected email?

For a few months now, I’ve been getting email addressed to my dmisener@gmail.com account from a guy named Keith. The emails haven’t been for me, but rather for someone named Diane Misener. Apparently we have very similar email addresses.

For months, I simply deleted Keith’s email. I know I shouldn’t have, but I deleted the first one because it was one of those joke email forwards that people send around, and I figured it was just a mistake. Then another one arrived, and another one, and I deleted those too. Eventually it got to the point where I couldn’t contact Keith to explain the mistake, because doing so would mean admitting I’d silently deleted all of his email to Diane.

Eventually, I started to feel pretty bad about all of this, so I phoned up Keith and Diane. The whole story is on this week’s episode of Spark.

Unlimited data from Rogers. Not.

It’s a few days old now, but Torontoist has a great post on how the new unlimited data plan from Rogers is actually very limited. My unlimited data through Fido should last another two months, but I have no idea what I’ll do when it expires, now that I’m addicted to their ubiquitous (though slow-as-molasses) EDGE network.