Friend of the show (and writer of our favourite ditty) Mel Campbell is now a co-host of the Rereaders Podcast. Check it out http://www.therereaders.com/2016/the-rereaders-on-the-family-law-carol-and-lee-lin-chins-lambgate/

Happy birthday everybody!

Here’s duolinguo: https://en.duolingo.com 

Doesn’t look like they do Turkish. 

Ukrainian? Portuguese? Esperanto? Stupidly Big Language Challenge: will it happen? Mais oui!

See you tomorrow for the 300th episode. Woot!

Last week Lorin gave someone $125,000. 

Here’s the play you should all see when it comes to town: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-29/darwin-playwright-mary-anne-butler-wins-victorian-literary-prize/7125180

Also: send us photos of where you’re listening…

Pretty frivolous What’s In My Phone today: http://distractify.com/humor/2016/01/16/jake-political-dino-debate

Here’s the Ballad of Lidl & Aldi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL7jyXCQ2Zc

What’s in our phone?

Thanks to Thomas Caldwell for BOSTON ACCENT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLwbzGyC6t4

The tides are turning on Australia Day. Not a moment too soon. Here’s Google:

https://newmatilda.com/2016/01/26/the-worlds-most-popular-website-just-ripped-the-rug-out-from-under-australia-day/ 

Fat Shame on You!

http://jennyojoy.tumblr.com/post/137909377571/fat-shame-on-you

Freelancing and why it should make us happy

http://www.deskmag.com/en/the-origin-of-the-word-freelance-and-why-it-should-make-us-happy-freelancers-doing-what-you-love 

Are you taking the day off? TAKE THE DAY OFF! Screw the business lobby!

Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed is here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_and_Dimed

And here is where it’s mentioned in the context of Zach Galifianakis’s (erhem) new comedy show, Baskets: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/no-clowning-around

New Yorker Fiction podcast: http://www.newyorker.com/series/fiction-podcast 

Send us your poems and see you tomorrow x 

First impressions often last. So do photos. 

Contemporary rabbit ears, demonstrated here in the Tom Hanks photobomb discussed this morning, can be seen in this collection:

http://www.ranker.com/list/the-funniest-celebrity-photobombs/marc-cuenco?format=SLIDESHOW&page=20

Also, one of the many interesting things about ants: they write their architectural plans into the walls of their buildings: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/18/ants-write-architectural-plans-into-the-walls-of-their-buildings/