Ask MeFi are comparing listening lists (okay, maybe not) of their favourite "creative talk" podcasts. 

Hawk Wings has a guide to setting Gmail as your default mail app in OS X. 

Mabber looks cool. But I can't tell you how cool it is, because it's a closed, exclusive Beta defying the whole point of Web 2.0 (yes, we're radically decentralizing the web and empowering the small, select group of elite geeks who've got invite codes!). 

Ophelia wraps up on Incitement. Paul Goggins was totally idiotic on the Today interview. Again. Will he ever learn?! 

This is a neat script. I might customise it so that you can get a daily printing of what's going on with my blog. It's RSS for old people! 

A social network to list which books you should read first. 

macosxhints.com has a guide on how to make OPML from Safari's Bookmarks.plist file. 

Christine Rosen describes her fundamentalist education. 

What an idiot. My iPod's too damn quiet. I can still hear the world around me, and if I turn it up too high it starts crackling. Of course, Mr Patterson has a simple solution: move his finger around the click wheel in a counter-clockwise direction to turn the volume down. But of course, lawsuits are more profitable than actually learning how to use your devices. What a dipshit. 

Nice pretty words. 

This Wikipedia "six degrees" tool is very cool. 

Kerry Howley: "I think we can take the integration of glitter into any academic endeavor as evidence that public schools suck equally for men, woman, and anyone in between" 

You know what it's like when you get in to a place where the wifi is overloaded? It's a bit like that with GPRS here...  

Ooh, there's an OPML logo font which you can get here. (Thanks, Frank) 

Hmm, my NewsRiver is acting very strangely. 

Om Malik is talking about Mr Bush's latest crazy scheme. 

Nerds camping guide 

In the spirit of John Gould's How to Camp Out, I present to you some things you may require if you ever find yourself on a nerdy expedition to, say, What! The! Hack! or something similar.

DECT phones. These are stunningly useful.

Lots of ethernet cable. You'll never know when Ethernet cable will be handy. Wrap the cable itself with gaffer tape (duct tape for you Yankees) and cover the ends and it can double up as a poor man's belt.

"Programming Ruby". If you get stuck on public transport, you might as well use the time to learn a new programming language. And why not a really sexy object-oriented language like Ruby?

Spare batteries. You'll find plenty of uses for them.

Wireless gear: routers, hubs, Bluetooth crap. All of it can be used for neat stuff. Especially useful if you've got lots of money and access to the 'net on your phone.

USB extension cables. You'll always need them.

Recordable CD's and DVD's. Do I need to spell out why these are useful?

Friends outside. Getting your data out can be an arseache when in the field. Make sure you've got a buddy with skills, a decent connection and some hosting space, as well as a degree of trustworthiness. Just in case, you know, you bump in to the living, breathing Elvis working on a wifi mesh network.

Google via SMS. If you're in Europe, you can text Google queries to 6GOOG (64664) for your standard network charge. This can get you out of some sticky situations. For more advanced stuff, have a friend a text away with Google-fu. Similarly, if you need good advice, know some online places to go where you can get advice without big bandwidth or cost.

If you've got advice, blog it and send me an email.