Hooray!

Awesome!

BOOM

holy crap it's already on itunes, good job Will, now i don't have to be bored on the bus ride home

Minor nitpick: the Constitution doesn't say anything about the government funding the "useful arts." The clause Gary was referring to was probably Article I, Section 8: It gives Congress the power "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries"

That simply authorizes Congress to enact copyright and patent laws. There's nothing about funding there.

Not that I'm saying we shouldn't fund NPR. I love NPR.

Listening to Gary talk about business and corporations is like listening to a voice of reason.

I really enjoyed the business talk at the top of the show. I feel that it is a very complex and troubling issue that no simple solution exists for, and it has too often been broken down as if it is by mainstream media coverage.

I have a 32GB iphone 4 and all of the music on there is lossless. I have to swap out albums every week or two, but there is still enough music for me to listen to while driving to work all week and listening while I work. I'd rather have the hassle of swapping out tracks than having all of my music in shit quality. I also tend to listen to albums I like repeatedly throughout the day.

There needs to be a Tested politics podcast with Gary sometime.

@Th3_James: 8GB iphone4... I basically just stick with my three favorite albums and streaming music. Works well enough.

Ah it's kind of crazy but i just realised that i just watched groundhog day without being aware of the date (i'm from the UK so it's not too crazy that i was not aware of this).

There needs to be a Tested politics podcast with Gary sometime.

On the Media is a national treasure!

Also, Michael Biehn was in the movie Navy SEALs!

@norman You can get excel in separate windows, you just have to start a new session of excel (i.e. click the shortcut, not a doc). You'll only get read rights to the personal macro book, but you can now have a spreadsheet on each monitor. Bit of a pain and I wish they'd make it easier.

I'm the same way regarding Office; I don't care much about Word, but you'd have to take Excel from my cold dead hands. Working with 3000+ row spreadsheets daily I haven't seen a good alternative. And VBA/macros are invaluable to me. As far as I know these won't work in open source alternatives (?).

Google docs spreadsheets are pain to use. May be because I'm used to working so quickly in Excel, but it just feels cumbersome and sluggish. I honestly don't see how you can use any google doc for actual work.

I use open source software as much as I can, but I think I'll still continue to buy office (and Windows I guess)

Hey fuck you Will, you are encouraging people to read Gatsby but not Moby Dick? Wrong wrong wrong.

Lots of love for Google Docs on recent episodes. They should give the office web apps a go, Microsoft are pushing them pretty hard now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6O9J_EzmqE&feature=youtu.be

While google docs is really neat and convenient for sharing, the spreadsheet and presentation apps are terrible replacements for excel and powerpoint.