MetaFilter posts tagged with today

John Humphrys on the move

nam3d — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:17:06 -0800

BBC Streams has rekindled my love of all things BBC Radio 4, now I can listen to The Today Programme on my iPhone whilst on my commute.

Today is the Day

Burhanistan — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:12:48 -0800

Today is the Day.

Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll

y2karl — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:45:15 -0800

Kids today. They have no sense of shame. They have no sense of privacy. They are show-offs, fame whores, pornographic little loons who post their diaries, their phone numbers, their stupid poetry—for God’s sake, their dirty photos!—online. They have virtual friends instead of real ones. They talk in illiterate instant messages. They are interested only in attention—and yet they have zero attention span, flitting like hummingbirds from one virtual stage to another.

So goes the common wisdom but things in fact are more complex.
Say Everything

blackbeltjones — Fri, 31 Aug 2001 02:41:49 -0800

Interview with crew of the International Space Station [realaudio] on BBC's "Today" programme. The crew describe their bird's eye impressions of the environmental damage that mankind is doing to it's biosphere. If Denis Tito can get there, surely we could get Dubya up there to take a look-see for himself...?