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Today s podictionary word brought to you by GoToMeeting. Try it free for 30 days by following the link www.gotomeeting.com/podcast Today we recognize quite a few things as litter that seem to have little to do with one another. The candy wrapper blowing around the school yard is litter. The bag of absorbent pellets that get poured into a litter box so you don t have to walk the cat is called kitty litter.  This one seems particularly strange since when the cat has babies that s called a litter too. Perhaps least frequently, but still recognizably, we hear the stretcher that is used to carry a wounded soldier off the battlefield called a litter. Although all these things are completely different from one another they do in fact come from the same word root. According to the American Heritage Dictionary way back in Indo-European there was a word legh that meant to lie down. Not too incredibly this is the root of lie. But from Indo-European the word roots of lie and litter took different routes to English. In Latin the word lectus is thought to have evolved from the same ancestor and lectus meant bed —the place you lie down in. We all know that before French was French is was Latin and so you won t be surprised to hear that the French word for bed is lit, which had earlier been litere in Old French. Suddenly that soldier s litter makes etymological sense. As an English word litter first shows up around 1300 meaning bed. It is a great example of the evolution of English as it was morphing between Old English and Middle English because Old English was based on Germanic words while Middle English absorbed so many French words. The first citation for litter is in something called Cursor Mundi.  This was a long, long, long poem that purported to tell the history of the world; hence the name: cursor meaning runner and mundi meaning world. Right there in the section of poem where litter first appears we also see the word bed.  But the poet needed something to rhyme with hool and fere (whole and fair) and since bed didn t rhyme he chose instead with thy litere. Since no older documents that we know of used this new French word for bed, we can assume that it was just beginning to be absorbed into English.  Bed on the other hand was already in the language from Old English. Once litter was in English it began to take on new meanings. The reason a cat has a litter of kittens is because she gives birth to them all in one bed. Before fancy mattresses with spring coils in individual pockets, people sacked out on a little pile of straw.  When you freshened up your bed you did so by spreading new straw. This explains both the kitty litter and the candy-wrapper litter as being, in the first case a bed of absorbent material for an animal s comfort, and in the second case a distribution of little pieces of stuff. Litter as bits of junk kicking around on the floor appeared in the early 1700s and kitty litter 1959.

A one-sided conversation on Robotech Continuities and fan types. Enjoy the rambles. | RDF Underground Episode 0015 "Fan Fights" | http://rdfug.com/node/773 | http://www.steelfalcon.com | http://rdfunderground.com/helpafan | justy@robobotechdefenseforce.us | 1-224-588-8030 | http://www.myspace.com/rdfunderground | http://www.facebook.com/people/Justy_Ueki/533259807 | http://www.twitter.com/RDFUG | http://www.rdfug.com/forums | http://www.rdfug.com/newsletter | http://www.rdfug.com/promote | http://www.rdfug.com/store | http://www.rdfug.com/support | http://www.rdfug.com/donate | http://www.justyueki.com | http://www.twitter.com/JustyUeki | http://www.pownce.com/JustyUeki | http://www.monstermovieshow.com | http://www.rdfug.com

Hey everyone it's the beginning of a brand new month and that means it's time for Router Bit of the Month!! For the entire month of October Woodcraft is featuring Whiteside's 1/2 diameter Round Nose Core Box Bit. A great grooving/veining profile for projects such as fluting, sign making, etc. If you're not today's lucky winner of this great bit you can still take advantage of the sale price and add one to your collection just click here Woodcraft.com . Also as mentioned in the show, is the SignPro Kit from Milescraft. If you'd like to enter for free schwag, have a comment, question or suggestion, drop me a line at mattsbasementworkshop@gmail.com or head over to the website. Or...leave a voicemail at 231 354-2338. To download directly to your computer Right Click on direct download, choose Save Target as

This Week in Amateur Radio International (TWIARi) Edition #193 for the week beginning October 12, 2008, has been released. The program will be available shortly at our web site at www.twiar.org for direct download, or via podcast/RSS subscription. Program highlights include all the latest amateur radio news headlines, and this weeks special features: "The Random Access File" with Bill Baran, N2FNH presents Bill Continelli, W2XOY, as he looks at how much of a bargain todays radios are compared to costs a few decades ago. Our own eye on the sun, Steve Nichols, G0KYA will have the latest propagation forecast and DXpedition news during his segment "The Monthly Propagation Forecast". TWiTs Leo Laporte will have all the latest technology news effecting you , your shack computers, and the internet, plus a lot more! This Week in Amateur Radio International is distributed in full stereo. The program is available in both a high bandwidth (128/44) mp3 stereo file or a lower bandwidth (82/22) stereo mp3 file, and now also in a high and low bandwidth WMA/Windows Media File at our web site www.twiar.org. Be sure and listen for This Week in Amateur Radio International (TWIARi) on shortwave broadcast station WBCQ on 7.415 megahertz, Saturday afternoon at 4pm eastern time. The TWIARi podcast is now available via at Apple I-Tunes, OurMedia, and several other podcast sites. Links to archived programs are available at our web site www.twiar.org. This Week in Amateur Radio International is proud to be officially archived on "The Internet Archive" www.archive.org. TWIARi is also distributed on geostationary satellite Access America/Sky Scanner Satellite Networks. Our all volunteer staff and crew hope you enjoy our program. Please let us know if you do! For an official This Week in Amateur Radio QSL Card, (with asteroids!) Send an email to our QSL manager, n2fnh@capital.net, or better yet, write to us at This Week in Amateur Radio International, P.O. Box 30, Sand Lake, New York 12153. We would like to tell the world about your product or service too. If you would like to advertise on the next edition of This Week in Amateur Radio International, please send an email to w2xbs@twiar.org for details. If you would like to help support the program financially, visit our web site and click on the "PayPal" logo on the top right. All contributions go to offset program production and transmission expenses, and air time on WBCQ Radio and Access America, our satellite distribution network. Thanks for listening to us! Send us an e-mail, and let us know your out there! We'll see you next week! 73 - W2XBS (for the entire staff and crew) Executive Producer This Week in Amateur Radio International

Get out your spooky and macabre images folks, because today you're learning how to transfer them onto polymer clay to make one-of-a-kind, funky Halloween jewelry. Not just for the holiday, these designs will inspire the skull-lovin' crowd any day of the year. Now gather up your tools- you need Whipped Cream Studio by Sculpey for a super-fine transfer, or regular white of any other brand of polymer clay- and some magic transfer paper, and an image. Try Ken's images from www.craftedonline.com, that's what we used! Enjoy!

Dating is hell. Find out why in this fat-packed episode featuring 4 of the best relationship-themed short films in the world....including:"Frog Princess" Written/Directed by John Mckinney "Expiration Date" Written/Directed by Noah Pohl "Committed" Written/Directed by Erik Lundin "Double Standard" Written by Matt Pearl, Directed by Jesse ScaturroThis week's episode also features Jess Lane. View these films in their entirety at our blog. Don't forget to leave me a voicemail: 646-274-4625 andjoin our Facebook page here.

Bookbabble Episode 21: Judging a president by the cover.  The 2008 US Presidential Candidates' Reading Lists.Recorded 21 August 2008Babblers: Bjorn, Gem, DonnySynopsis:Listen to three non-Americans talk American politics based on their book picks!  It was tough staying on topic for this one, but the babblers talked about the 2008 US Presidential candidates' supposed reading lists.  Both Obama and McCain plus their VP picks get picked on (although I know you know who got picked on a little more than the others), while vociferously declaring our unbiased evaluations.  Also, Nobel Prize for Literature, and Bjorn's wildcard pick for this prestigious recognition.We're unbiased.  Really.Show Length: 65:25 minsLinks:McCain's Reading List in AmazonObama's Reading List in AmazonMichael Palin 'better running mate' than Sarah PalinMatt Damon Rips Sarah PalinTheOnion TV: Portrayal Of Obama As Elitist Hailed As Step Forward For African Americans

Bookbabble Episode 21: Judging a president by the cover.  The 2008 US Presidential Candidates' Reading Lists. Recorded 21 August 2008 Babblers: Bjorn, Gem, Donny Synopsis: Listen to three non-Americans talk American politics based on their book picks!  It was tough staying on topic for this one, but the babblers talked about the 2008 US Presidential candidates' supposed reading lists.  Both Obama and McCain plus their VP picks get picked on (although I know you know who got picked on a little more than the others), while vociferously declaring our unbiased evaluations.  Also, Nobel Prize for Literature, and Bjorn's wildcard pick for this prestigious recognition. We're unbiased.  Really. Show Length: 65:25 mins Links: McCain's Reading List in AmazonObama's Reading List in AmazonMichael Palin 'better running mate' than Sarah PalinMatt Damon Rips Sarah PalinTheOnion TV: Portrayal Of Obama As Elitist Hailed As Step Forward For African Americans

In this video, I glue the back panel strips to the shelves, add an extra ebony adornment with a slot-cutting bit, and give a relatively lengthy tutorial on chopping the resulting mortise nice and square. I finish up by creating the ebony strips for the front of the top and bottom case pieces and I finish up by gluing the case together.

P { MARGIN: 0px } In this edition of Word Balloon we turn the show over to UK podcasters David Montieth and Barry Nugent, The Geek Syndicate. For a one of a kind comics forum they were proud to... WORDBALLOON features one on one interviews with the writers and artists behind today's pop culture favorites. The creative minds behind today's hottest comics, films, and Television , tell behind the scene stories providing a DVD like commentary on their works, without spoiling the stories. Hosted by Chicago Radio Host John Siuntres, Wordballoon covers the cult entertainment scene , like no other podcast.

The financial markets of late might be seen as a place where pandemonium rules. I see from a few homespun definitions that pandemonium is when all hell breaks loose. In actual fact things are a little more hopeful than that for two etymological reasons. First of all the word pandemonium was invented by that old poet John Milton in his poem Paradise Lost.  It is one of those rare words we can trace back to a single person who spun it seemingly out of thin air. Of course words are the ultimate democratic instruments and so even though John Milton invented this one, he couldn t keep perfect control over its meaning. Today we likely do mean that all hell is breaking loose on the financial markets, but when Milton came up with the word he meant it as a place name, not a condition of disorder. To Milton Pandemonium was the capital city of hell. It was the place of all the demons. You can see the word demon right there in pandemonium.  So although pandemonium had to do with hell, it wasn t hell breaking loose, it was hell gathering together. The second hopeful element wrapped up in pandemonium s etymology lies in the fact that John Milton didn t actually spin this word out of thin air.  He assembled it from components. Pan- is a standard Greek prefix.  It means all or together. There it is in pandemic where all of us get sick, and in panacea the medicine we can take that will make all our ills better. Then Milton added demonium which was more Latin than Greek. In Latin demon meant evil spirit. So he meant pandemonium to mean the place of all the demons. Now for the second hopeful part.  I ve said many times on podictionary that the Latin we ultimately got from the Romans was in a good measure based on Greek, since Greek civilization predated Roman dominance. Demon was one of those Latin words that had been Greek beforehand. The Greeks must have had a more optimistic outlook because in Greek diamon didn t mean evil spirit, but divine. The deeper root of this Greek meaning is (according to the American Heritage Dictionary) Indo-European where da meant to divide.   It was the supreme beings who divided up the good things in life and handed them out to all of the people.

Palladium and MMO Updates, Y.A.M.M. (Yet Another Macross Movie), Wil Wheaton is a geek and a Robotech Fan?, and some bad news about a fellow fan. | RDF Underground Episode 0014 "Beaten up by Wesley Crusher" | http://palladiumbooks.com/press/press2008-10a.html | http://www.robotechmmo.com | http://www.activeanime.com/html/content/view/3964/36/ | http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2008/09/i-worked-on-nar.html | http://rdfunderground.com/helpafan | justy@robobotechdefenseforce.us | 1-224-588-8030 | http://www.myspace.com/rdfunderground | http://www.facebook.com/people/Justy_Ueki/533259807 | http://www.twitter.com/RDFUG | http://www.rdfug.com/forums | http://www.rdfug.com/newsletter | http://www.rdfug.com/promote | http://www.rdfug.com/store | http://www.rdfug.com/support | http://www.rdfug.com/donate | http://www.justyueki.com | http://www.twitter.com/JustyUeki | http://www.pownce.com/JustyUeki | http://www.monstermovieshow.com | http://www.rdfug.com

Download audio file (ScrapbookClubPodcast9.mp3) My husband and I took a trip back to the beautiful state of New Hampshire this past week. If that didn’t get us ready for fall, then nothing could. It was breathtaking! They told us that we missed the “peak” foliage season by about a week. If that wasn’t the peak, then I can’t imagine how beautiful the “peak” season is. The leaves were so vibrant and the air was so crisp. It rained and drizzled a lot, but that did not dampen our spirits. In fact, the rain made everything shine and glow even more. Well, enough about our trip, and onto scrapbook topics. I have been a part of a Scrapbook Club for over 13 years and each year myself and the other 10-11 ladies in the club take a weekend and head up to Lisa’s family cabin in the beautiful mountains of Utah. We went up the 2nd weekend in September and so I did our next podcast with some of the members of our club. I hope you enjoy this podcast. It was fun for me and the ladies were nervous at first, but then they were able to see how easy it really is and they had fun too. In a future podcast I will go into more depth concerning Scrapbook Clubs and how to get started and the rules that we have used over the years. So sit back and enjoy a short interview with a few of my friends from my Scrapbook Club.

Download the Show Running time 32:19 mins Feedback from the Listeners Blog comment from Ascii Adam (kevchino, pandora)Facebook comments from Julie Fuzzybottom Email comment from Jesse Chettle (http://dtvconverterboxes.blogspot.com)Clip from Ken Radio from Sept 17th 2008 Topics: Digital Charities and Digital Rights Charity Navigator Charity Navigator from wikipedia 1.Wikimedia Foundation Not on Charity Navigator. I submitted this charity for reviewWikimedia Foundation from Wikipedia 2.Creative Commons Not on Charity Navigator. I submitted this charity for reviewCreative Commons from Wikipedia 3.Electronic Frontier Foundation Electronic Frontier Foundation from Wikipedia 4.Free Software Foundation Free Software Foundation from Wikipedia Free Software Definition from Wikipedia GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Software I use with the GNU LICENSE Open Office : Office SuiteAudacity : Digital Audio Editor GIMP : Image EditorFIREFOX : Web Browser Nvu & KompoZer : Web Editor Notepad++ : Notepad replacementVLC media player : Multimedia player Pnotes : sticky notes manager PDFTK : tool for manipulating PDF Bit Pim : view and manipulate data on cell phones7-Zip : file archiver for Windows Podcasts FLOSS Weekly ,Valid Syntax DIGITAL DAN HOOKSHOW+DAN@GMAIL.COM The music featured in this podcast: Intro Buddha Chill by Joe DJ- trancentral Make sure to check out the Hook Show podcast main site.

We ve got a great show on the way! SciFi Surplus is just like radio for geeks except without the need for a radio. We geeky topics not just from SciFi, fantasy and genre fiction but also anything geek that comes to mind, assuming that we didn t plan ahead. We also try to work fun in [...]

Learn how to make yogurt and a solar oven inside a cardboard box. This is a great project for kids to learn about solar energy. Watch and learn on Gardenfork and visit our viewer forum www.green-house.tv Distributed by Tubemogul.

There seem to be only two words these days that refer to one of those things that one spends time on while observing, in rotation, short segments of several different channels on TV. One term is sofa, the other couch. There used to be lots more, for example divan chesterfield davenport lounge, and settee The word couch appeared in English before sofa did. At first a couch was a bed, not an elongated, padded chair. This is because the French word that it came from meant to lie down.   The Latin ancestor of the French word was collocare and this Latin word in turn was built on two parts that meant to place together. It certainly wasn t the intention as the word developed, but since more than one person can occupy a couch, having evolved from being placed together, the name is appropriate. By 1450 a couch was a couch in English but a sofa was still unheard of. The first citation for sofa came in 1625.  It seems that other European countries that had been dealing with Arabic speakers had been using the word for a little longer since in Arabic a sofa wasn t so much an article of furniture as a raised part of the floor intended to make sitting more convenient. These built in benches must have been covered in something to make them more comfortable because not only does the first English citation for sofa talk of a rich carpet covering it, the etymology of sofa itself meant carpet or mat, running back through Arabic and Aramaic. It was 1717 when sofa first meant couch according to the Oxford English Dictionary. The New Oxford American Dictionary includes chesterfield as a synonym for couch and sofa but points out that this is principally a Canadian usage. I see from an analysis of Canadians, and their use of this word, that you can roughly predict the age of a Canadian by how familiar they are with the term. Evidently over the past century we Canadians have been adopting couch at about the same rate we have been forgetting chesterfield. Why would anyone have ever called a sofa a chesterfield? There was once an Earldom of Chesterfield but in the 1950s the last Earl died without any kids and so the line came to an end.  During the 1800s though at least one of the Earls must have been quite the swanky guy because (before the days when one could license their name for enormous profit) a style of overcoat appeared called a chesterfield, and then a style of cushy furniture. Today s episode brought to you by Grammar Girl s New York Times bestselling book. Look for the link at grammar.quickanddirtytips.com

What happens when a Ninja Yakuza gang cuts off a young girl's arm and murders her Tamagotchi? She builds a gatling gun arm attachment and seeks revenge of course! Please enjoy this action packed "Super Test Film". It doesn't make a lot of sense, but it sure is flashy!  Remember you can find out all the details on how we built the "Gatling Gun Arm" by checking out  the episode below. Special thanks to Carlen Altmen of http://www.jewishrosaries.com for starring as Mikiko!Don't forget to subscribe!

Its Halloween Time and Rob's takin a look back at last years Halloweeny Wednesdays and a look forward into this years Halloweeny How-to's.Fairy WingsPirate CostumeMummyJedi RobeSteam PunkIndy Mogul: ZombiesIndy Mogul: Swamp MonsterIndy Mogul: Werewolf

It's been quite awhile since we've done a con report, so here we are live from our hotel room at the Providence Anime Conference. PAC took place October 3 - 5, 2008 at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, RI. This was the first ever 21 and over anime convention, and we were there to witness it first hand. If you want to see the photos from the con be sure to check out Diana's Flickr page. It was a great convention and we had a blast. I really hope to see more cons like this in the future. Thanks for listening!

P { MARGIN: 0px } On this edition of the Word Balloon podcast , we talk about all things Watchmen, with the legendary co-creator, artist Dave Gibbons. We discuss the Watchmen Motion Comic, which... WORDBALLOON features one on one interviews with the writers and artists behind today's pop culture favorites. The creative minds behind today's hottest comics, films, and Television , tell behind the scene stories providing a DVD like commentary on their works, without spoiling the stories. Hosted by Chicago Radio Host John Siuntres, Wordballoon covers the cult entertainment scene , like no other podcast.

Show #158-Get Happy! Tonight -Stressed? Tired? Need inspiration? This is the show for you! Tips for getting reenergized, getting more volunteers, inspiration and some fun. Tonight’s show sponsored by Badge Magic

Today s podictionary word brought to you by GoToMeeting. Try it free for 30 days by following the link www.gotomeeting.com/podcast I guess dregs is an appropriate word against which to set some pessimistic poetry.  Here are a few lines from John Dryden: None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give. I take issue with his sad outlook. I for one have enjoyed my past years and if I don t want to live them again it is precisely because I expect more of the same.  Why relive the past when you can have fresh adventures. And I don t think John Dryden really meant it either because he wrote it during a period when he was near the height of his powers and fame. When he mentions the dregs of life he s talking about the time remaining and with an understood meaning that those last years are worth less than the rest. Dregs mean leftovers and etymologically they should be worth less than the rest. Often the last swishy gulp left in a glass is referred to as the dregs, although these days it s unlikely that it actually does contain any dregs since the dregs were the lees or the sediment that fell to the bottom of a fermented drink. A glass of beer or wine might have some little bits in the bottom or a cloud of dead yeast that settles when the glass is left standing still. Most of our beverages these days are filtered and sold without these sediments. The word dregs came to English from Old Norse and appears first in 1300. Already though the lowly nature of dregs had extended the meaning of the word to include other undesirable things.  There in the same document—a religious poem—dregs shows up both meaning the muck at the bottom of your drink, and also feces. Today we might refer to drug addicts, muggers and bag ladies as the dregs of society both because we value them less and also because they seem to have sunk to the bottom of the social mix. John Dryden had some rough times during the dregs of his life but for most of it he was at the top of the social mix. Like most of us he learned as he went. His very first play was called The Wild Gallant and was supposed to be about a gallant—a fancy dressing, high living sophisticate—who lives the wild life. But evidently Dryden himself had never lived a wild life and so didn t know enough about sin to portray it on stage. Samuel Pepys saw the play and wrote that he couldn t figure out which character was supposed to be the wild one.

Last workshop of the year and first audio show in quite a while! Let s talk about Photokina, workshops, theater light design, performance photography and more with our international group of workshop participants. » Download the MP3 for this episode Show Links: Chris s Photokina coverage John Miller s The Rest of Everest Want to know what Chris is planning for workshops in 2009? Check out Discoverthetopfloor.com Newest modern dance theater in Denmark: Archauz Be sure to check out Chris on the Experts Tour in Germany. » Get the show for free in iTunes » Get the show for free using RSS Godaddy coupon code / promo codes: Use code TIPS1 and save 10%! Use code TIPS2 and save 20% *

I've included this Wood Talk Online episode in the feed because it contains a great giveaway announcement for a Lee Valley Plane. Enter at http://www.woodtalkonline.com

It's time to wig out, as several cute dogs and cats sport fashionable and outrageous wigs in the latest episode of Ultra Kawaii. Be sure to comment about your favorite pet and tell your friends.Thanks to all the cute puppies and funny cats featured in this episode: Tonka, Floyd, Otis, Pepe, Fuzzy, Britney, Jarvis, Budster, Bamse, Ivan, Bangs, Chilali, Stanley, Montague, Teddy & Heidi, Honey, Bug, Moxie, Cocolo, Charlie, Parade, Alameda, Hank, Kiki, Steve, Stella, Ninja, Ginger, Sake, Punkinhead, Scrappy, Abby, Hobo, Whisky, and Tabatha

October 2008 edition of Yog Radio. New Aeon: Take 1, not with your usual hosts! Featuring Paul, Bret Kramer and Helen... This edition marks the beginning of series 2 and we start off in fine fashion by forgetting to switch the mics on (twice), so apologies for the sound quality, it harkens back to the earliest days of the show. For Show Notes & comments see Yog Radio #31 - New Aeon: Take 1 forum topic. Recorded at Innsmouth House, Bradford, UK (Friday, 3rd October, 2008). Run Time: 01:18:46 36 MB MP3 file.

Nikonian podcaster Martin Joergensen experimenting with wireless flash in the darkness. Just for fun, nothing big, and no great results - creatively at least. Click here to download Nikonians On Location Podcast #36 (NPC-OL-2008-10-06; 22:46; 21MB, MP3 format). Video supplement available here (NPC-OLV-2008-10-06; 4:39; flash format).

Backyard FX is back just in time for Mogulween and we aren't pulling any punches. This week we show you how to replace your best friend's arm with a motorized gatling gun! Make a cool movie or the best Halloween costume in town! All for less then $35 dollars. We are back!!!