Lecture Me, Baby!
Because you really needed more evidence that I’m the world’s biggest
nerd, I have a deep, abiding love for lectures. Nothing makes me
happier than a long boring drive, the stale car air filled by an hour
of a really smart person telling me about string theory. Or their new essay collection that I’ll never read.
My moons ago I spotted a link to Listening to Words, a giant clearinghouse of free recorded lectures, on Jason Kottke’s site, forgot to bookmark it and hated myself. But this week I stumbled back across it again and saw that they’ve added rss feeds for the newest and featured lectures.
Still not as convenient as it could be. Still doesn’t let you create a
podcast of the lectures you want and have them downloaded without
having to seek them out. But its still a peek over the cliffs into my personal Brigadoon in the valley below: The voices of a thousand genius cooing "Kevin, listen. Let me teach you something."