Where your host records half of the program with his mike muted, then re-records an apology to his brother, spins two rockin’ blues tunes from garageband.com, and records some impressions of three independent film books he has begun reading.

The songs:

• Company Graveyard by B.B. Chung and the Buddaheads
• I Won’t Go Back by Joe White

Well, it’s still a couple of days till Halloween, but I thought I would to this special halloween themed podcast so that you could still have time to use some of the ideas and downloads that I present here in whatever spooky proceedings you may have planned. Here are some of the links I mentioned:

• Murnau’s classic Nosferatu, courtesy of archive.org
• Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, also courtesy of archive.org
• The Brain that Wouldn’t Die, courtesy of, you guessed it, archive.org
• Vintage Scary Music (from vinyl), courtesy of vinylorphanage.com
• Ghouls with Attitude, from oddiooverplay.com
• At Home With The Munsters, of questionable legality, but fun.
• Halloween Organ Music, specifically Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, translated from an unlabelled MIDI file into a wav via timidity and encoded via lame.

Where your host plugs the worthy record label Magnatune and their gracious use of Creative Commons licensing, plays a bit of American Baroque’s rendition of Vivaldi’s Concerto No.1 in D Major RV, better known as the Spring Concerto among us people who don’t know much about music, and lauds the 6th Court of appeals decision in the Lexmark case. You can read the court’s opinion here as a PDF file, provided by the EFF.

Bonus links:

• Gordon Smith recommended that I check out Crux Linux. I’ll have to give it a shot sometime soon.
• Russell Holliman’s Treocast — a podcast recorded entirely on a Treo cellphone.

Errata: I erroneously called Doug Kaye David Kaye. Sorry Doug! I don’t know what blip caused my brain to make this mistake.

Wherein your host is once again proven wrong and the Sox go on to fight another day.

Other items of interest:

• Curt Schilling — hero of the game. Ob. trivia: I believe that Schilling is the current major league player with the most at-bats without getting his first career home run.
• Stellarium — a realistic sky simulator
• Asterisk — an open source VOIP PBX
• Aftermath of Jon Stewart’s appearance on the reality show that is Crossfire.

To Tucker Carlson: you should thank Jon for breathing life into the corpse that is your show.

Where your disgruntled host lauds Jon Stewart’s appearance on Crossfire, including a short clip and further rants about the commercialization of the “podcast platform”.