New Year's Resolution - Exercise those Records!

Thanks to the History Detectives broadcast last autumn, I had the good fortune of being interviewed on WNYC;s Soundcheck on January 6, as part of their week-long examination of exercising - one of the more popular New Years' resolutions out there.  The archives here includes what is purported to be a more extensive accumulation of early exercise records than can be found at the Library of Congress, which is a rather sad statement of my life in the Surreal City.  In any case, they were kind enough to provide me with a link, so I share it below!

Soundcheck Broadcast Friday 6 January 2012 (link now deactivated, alas!)

Now the task is to covert more than these few clips to complete mp3s.... hmmm... using digital technology to retain obsolete information from obscure documentation.  Isn't that what the internet is all about?!

Images That Make a Collector Cringe

This came from a Popular Science issue in 1936.  With the Great Depression in full force, and radio being free, those clunky useless phonographs had to be put to some use.  After all, who'd pay money for music when you could get anything in the world for FREE on the radio? 

Now, let's jump to today and the news that electronic books are outselling paper-based books.

Sorry, gang, I'm not going to rely on perpetual easy-access to the internet or digital media.  The books are staying!