I respond to listener email, talk about the absurdity of Maryland state police using night vision goggles to spot nighttime drivers not wearing their seat belts, play three new podcast promos, and play a couple of songs by the jazz group Simpatico. The links for today's show are:

http://www.theponderplace.com -- A listener's own podcast

http://www.truckerdoc.com -- Website for an interesting trucker radio show

www.catholicinsider.com -- Father Roderick's really cool Catholic Insider podcast -- really well-produced and I'm always excited when I see a new episode has appeared on my hard drive!!!

http://www.typicalpcuser.com/ -- Victor Cajiao's Typical PC User Podcast website and blog

http://podsafeaudio.com/jamroom/bands/19/ -- "Simpatico's" downloadable CD jazz audio tracks -- this is REALLY excellent, high-quality jazz music!!! "Simpatico" is Victor Cajiao and Joe Cristina

http://www.truckerjim.net/ -- another driver's website

http://mcbyrdbell.com/ohotr/ohotr.xml -- Ken and Karen's trucker podcast

http://desktop.yahoo.com -- Get the excellent Yahoo Desktop Search Beta tool

http://search.yahoo.com -- Yahoo's new slimmed-down Google-like search page that makes Internet searching quick and painless -- I've already personally made the switch

http://www.curry.com -- Adam Curry links directly to Digital Off Ramp podcast No. 2 on his blog

http://warman.hwyblogs.com -- Warren Lark's blog at http://www.hwyblogs.com

Here's the Sony IDC-ST25 flash voice recorder (along with an optional Sony ECM-DS70P external stereo microphone) I use for walk-around sound scene tours and get excellent results:

http://www.catholicinsider.com -- This is an extremely well-produced podcast absolutely worth spending the time listening to

I bought a new Toshiba A75-S211 laptop computer I'm now producing the show with -- this is a VERY FAST machine!!!!!!

http://www.truckflix.com -- trucking career information and driver recruiting site

I'm using the Plantronics DSP-500 USB microphone/headset and I'm loving it! Here's a link for more information about it. For the price, it's an absolutely excellent value and also will work directly with Mixcast Live in conjunction with your existing sound card.

www.downloadradio.org -- Bittorrent downloads of podcasts, including Trucker Tom's!!!

tom@truckerphoto.com and tomwiles@mailblocks.com Tom's email addresses

Finally, send your pod-safe non-RIAA music download recommendation links to tom@truckerphoto.com.

Be safe!

TOM

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