Just curious: how do you feel about post Had&Robert Radiolab?

Five to Four : "a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks" with Peter from If Books Could Kill which got quite a few mentions

Embedded.fm : best tech podcast I know, nominally about embedded programming, but also a lot of peripheral topics, origami comes to mind. Few tech podcasts manage to discuss deeply technical issues in an interesting manner.

Conversations with Tyler: general interest podcast with long conversations with a diverse cast of sometimes very high profile guests. Just came across it a couple of days ago and was surprised I never heard of it. Tyler has had folks like Daniel Kahnemann, Noam Chomsky, Neil Stephenson but also has great lesser known people. A recent podcast was about the history of Chinese cuisine...

Doesn't that argument apply to any instance of ignoring intellectual property. Books, records and movies will also be cheaper in countries that let companies do what they want. Medicine would be more accessible, ignoring patients will greatly accelerate innovation in countries where permitted...

... or they sue you for using their API ... or doing something similarly impertinent.

:P

For some reason, I wouldn't touch "free" from Oracle with a barge pole...

Sunk subs can also be an environmental hazard.

Just out of curiosity... how do you figure that a tiny sunken submersible would become a hazard, much less an environmental one?