By David McCandless
Mon 18 December 2006

• 8 Out of 10 Cats

  

  Audio podcast highlights from the popular comedy quiz show 8 Out of 10 Cats, starring amusing git Jimmy Carr as master of ceremonies. A bit like BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz, but funny.
  
  Contestants react semi-spontaneously to current events and score points, well, off each other really. In fact if you took all the game bits, questions and scoring out of this show, then this podcast is pretty much what you'd have left. All the funny bits, no kibble. Eight out of ten listeners said they preferred it this way.

  http://www.channel4radio.com/
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• SmallBizPod

  

  Do you want an unfair advantage over your competitors? You steely eyed entrepreneur, you.
  
  In the current SmallBizPod, the small business podcast no less, there's a ball-busting interview with the Canadian writer and marketing expert George Torok. George is one of those rich successful guys who chooses to share his success rather than rub it in your face.
  
  He gives away trade secrets and tells you how to make yourself into a brand you can sell. This podcast may sound boring, but the info is pure marketing gold dust. It will make you want to run out immediately and close a deal. Of some sort.

  http://smallbizpod.co.uk/
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• The Q Podcast

  

  Over the course of a decade, Q magazine has become a giant red and black monolithic slab of authority in music. You can't deny the huge amount of clout they have. Q readers know what they like. And this is what they'd listen to - the voice of Q.
  
  It's an amazingly slick, weekly ten-minute show, brimming over with incisive reviews like the ones you'd read in the magazine but, of course, accompanied by the music they are talking about. Perfect commutable mojo food.

  http://www.q4music.com/
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• Boing Boing

  

  Need some mental floss?
  
  After being a print magazine for years, Boing Boing became one of the first blogs, or online journals, and the ultimate guide to cool material goods and ideas of a geeky nature.
  
  So if you like weird Japanaria, pictures of strange toilets from around the world, and entire feature films made from Lego, this podcast is for you.
  
  The editors, writers and culture hounds Cory Doctorow and Mark Frauenfelder just use it as a opportunity to interview their heroes. This week they pump geek gods and authors Rudy Rucker and Steve Levy about their crazy visions of the future of technology and culture. Chew it a bit and blow a big bubble.

  http://boingboing.net/
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