Lip Gloss and Laptops

If you don't listen to the Lip Gloss and Laptops podcast, you should at least check out the current episode for a couple of reasons:

• The "Reality Check" section, which discusses this post on Miss 604's Vancouver Blog. Miss 604, a Canadian blogger and podcaster, discusses a very critical comment she got on a photo that accompanied a blog entry, and talks about the double standard that others have mentioned in comments here, and in the sequence of posts about my experience in the "Gossip Girl" sims.
  
• The closing song, Jonathan Coulton's "A Laptop Like You." Long ago, the classic magazine Creative Computing ran a cartoon in which, for the first few panels, a guy watches the scene from 2001 in which HAL 9000 is deactivated; as HAL haltingly sings "Daisy Bell" (honest, that's the title), he bursts into tears, two other guys walk by and one says "You can always tell the CS majors." Coulton's wonderfully clever love song to a Mac laptop reminded me of that; I was teary-eyed during the last verse.

Once you've heard one episode, I think you'll become a regular listener; Airdrie and Kerry Anne discuss cosmetics, beauty products in general, and other things as the urge strikes them. They're a delight to listen to.