i've just discovered podcasts - awesome! :)
i've so far only been listening to matrixmasters.com
was happy to find some terence mckenna there that i havent heard before, and started listening to some new peeps. some interesting shit, some not so much, this one dude who alternated between sounding too stoned to answer questions, and eloquently explaining some other points. this was from burning man though, raising the probability of him being at the very least burnt out, to near-certainty. the second last speech that i listened to today was by the dude, Lorenzo who runs matrixmasters and who undertook the podcastage, and i was really pleasantly surprised by the quality of his speech, and its content. i recommend listening to it :)

i've recently started feeling that the environment is beyond "saving", and that we can now at best hope to just keep it as healthy for as long as possible, until we can start moving "off-world", so more should be now spent on space technology. mind you, it would probably be cheaper to send garbage off-world than to try and terra-form a whole new planet or moon. still, we have to be able to master traveling and living in space soon, because the earth wont have enough resources for a second go...