It has been a while since I made a post that was actually a log of things I'd found online lately.  Not nearly as long as it has been since that act coined the term "weblog".  But here are cool things!  And questions!

• I'm looking for podcasts about game design and the game industry.  Recommendations go far with me-- my flist is the editorial board of the firehose of internet content.  I've found the Gamasutra podcast, the Indie Game Developer's Podcast, The DigiPen Podclass, The Bungie Studios Podcast.  Any others?  Are any of those worthless?
• This movie about Prince Vladimir looks awesome, and I need to get my hands on it, even if it does turn out to be a Russian Orthodox proselytization tool.
• My alma mater has a new president, who has written quite an essay on meaning, purpose, and holistic education.  It's quite dense, but parts of it are very eloquent about some points that I think very salient for current discussion of good pedagogy, civic education, and our current educational institutions.
• Have you played my new game yet?  You should, if you're into game design. (And if you can run Flash 10, sorry N.) It's fun.
• The Harry Potter Septet ... not quite wizard rock.  I've got to check this out, and poke my high school friend, the pianist, about it.
• A rant about digital comics, as a digital comic.  Much has been made of this in a few places, but I think he's missed the point. I unfortunately can't rant about this myself, here, because it's getting late, but since it has been sitting on my desktop for a week, I'd better get it out.  The core of my frustration: no one discussing digital comics, including this guy, seems to me to have stepped back to think about what it is that computers really do that print media don't.  Folks have considered "interaction", and that's valid, but the conclusion seems to be that anything that incorporates interaction meaningfully starts to feel more like a game than a comic. (Penny Arcade Adventures...?)  Another answer is "process" or "procedural response", which is a way of burrowing into "interaction" as a term.  This guy considers neither of those very well, and so seems to me to be beating a dead horse, or a straw man.
• Video game developers don't get racism any more than Hollywood does.  Seriously, the arguments happening in both places on both sides, are SHOCKINGLY similar.  I am embarrassed for my industry, AND glad that some people are doing what they can to open eyes and minds.  Those links are to really, really good and clear arguments about what the problem is.