[kleer001]

I submit that being a good designer (of software or hardware or 2d or 3d images) demands a well rounded education, a diverse set of interests, and a morbid sense of humor. To that end I submit these following podcasts to excite the weak connections in our brains:

www.howstuffworks.com/podcasts/stuff-you-should-know.rss

www.maximumfun.org/subscribe

and bonus, the excellent but extinct Word Nerds podcast:

http://thewordnerds.libsyn.com/

(you might need to add/dL them one at a time)