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Radio Free Burrito Episode 5

15118203_32335060cf_m I issued myself a challenge a few weeks ago: do one ten-minute podcast a day for a week. Then I went and got sick, and wasn't in any shape to do begin the challenge . . . until tonight.

I thought that it would be very manageable to commit ten minutes per day to do a show, but don't know if I like the format; ten minutes is hardly enough time to get started, let alone do an entire show, so I will thank in advance those of you who endure this little experiment with me over the next few days. I am nearly positive that by the end of the week, I'll be back to 37 minutes at a time.

Oh, and before I get into the show notes: does someone want to do a Radio Free Burrito logo? I am thinking something simple that is inspired by the old RKO logo (a radio tower on top of the earth) or something similar like that. I'm a big fan of simple, 1940s-looking radio design, if you know what I'm talking about.

If any of you guys with crazy Photoshop or GIMP skills want to send me something, I'd love to see it. If I pick your design, I'll give you credit by name and with a link to your website or blog, and I'll send you an autographed book. I should probably put in some legal language, like, uh, anything you send me becomes my property, and I can do whatever I want with it, even put it into a shotgun wedding with the Crushinator. You can put "Wil Wheaton's Radio Free Burrito" and use the tagline ". . . an interesting podcast" if you want.

Here are a few show notes for this very brief episode:

  • The music comes from Mike Doughty's "Down on the River by the Sugar Plant," which is on Skittish and Rockity Roll. I just realized that I used a song which you can't download from his site by mistake, so I hope he doesn't sue me or kick my ass. In any case, I encourage you to buy his albums, because they totally fucking rule.
  • Comments can be sent to podcast at wil wheaton dot net, questions can be sent to ask at wil wheaton dot net. Please use a descriptive subject line.
  • Radio Free Burrito is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
  • This episode is 10:16 and weighs in at 4.1 MB.

Okay, that's it for today. I hope you enjoy the abbreviated Radio Free Burrito. Thanks for listening. 

Download radio_free_burrito_episode_five.mp3

(photo via flickr user Eris23)

Update - Thank to to everyone who sent in (or linked to) logos. There are so many cool logos, I will probably use several of them this week before I settle on an "official" RFB logo. I appreciate your time and creative efforts, everyone!

Also, WWdN:iX reader and Head Torrent Monkey Brian has your high and low torrent needs covered:

High (orig):
http://athena.unearthed.org/torrents/radio_free_burrito_episode_five.mp3.torrent

Low (mono, VBR bit rate range 0-24, 1.8 megs):
http://athena.unearthed.org/torrents/radio_free_burrito_episode_five-low.mp3.torrent

Mirror for the Low..
http://www.badmonkies.com/rfb/radio_free_burrito_episode_five-low.mp3

Thanks, Brian!

Posted by Wil on March 6, 2006 09:15 PM |

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Comments

Hi Wil, Thank you for your compliments on my blog! I sent you an email to your WWdN email address.
-Don

Posted by: Don Shank | March 6, 2006 09:36 PM

I will totally get working on your logo. Do you want it emailed or linked in a comment?

But now, I need sleep. It's 12:44 AM here in EST

Posted by: starshine_diva | March 6, 2006 09:44 PM

maybe an minimal RKO logo with the waves heavily inspired by the Firefox live bookmark icon, "RFB" on the left and "... an interesting podcast" on the right.

if only i could draw.

Posted by: mick129 | March 6, 2006 10:02 PM

Excellent! Loved it!

Err, sent an email and hope you get it. It expands on my thought above.

Looking forward to the rest of the week. :D

Posted by: akashik | March 6, 2006 11:11 PM

I was thinking something simple such as this, just a little nicer.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/Fuhrio/RFB.jpg

Posted by: Philip | March 7, 2006 12:01 AM

Torrent up at http://www.mininova.org/tor/245044

Not that a 10-minute episode really needs it, but what the heck. I'll gladly donate some bandwidth to help spread teh word.

Posted by: wolfger | March 7, 2006 02:17 AM

jagette227:
Now if you could just replace that radio tower with a burrito...

Posted by: wolfger | March 7, 2006 02:53 AM

I use PSP and I'll see what I can do. LOL. I'll save a few of the logos and work from there.

Posted by: morgan | March 7, 2006 05:33 AM

Jagette:

I like it. Good work.

Posted by: Kenyon | March 7, 2006 06:38 AM

I like Philip's ;)

As soon as I get out of class... Imma be your man. Woman. Whatever.
lol

Posted by: starshine_diva | March 7, 2006 07:19 AM

Hopefully this little "contest" of yours is still going on when I get home from work today ;)

I'll work on it between the time I get home and when the tourney starts tonight...better check my balance lol

Posted by: psycoma | March 7, 2006 07:20 AM

A pretty obvious attempt...

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d55/Zerbet/RFB.png

Colors, etc., are all easily modified - I know, the purple looks a little Brokeback, not that there's anything wrong with that...

Posted by: Zerbet | March 7, 2006 07:55 AM

I've given this a shot as well using Inkscape and SVG.

You can see the results here:
http://www.glitchnyc.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=6104

And if anyone would like to tweak it and / or build on it, you can get the SVG file here:

http://www.glitchnyc.com/RFB_logo.svg

Posted by: glitchnyc.com | March 7, 2006 08:03 AM

Thrown together in the GIMP from random images found with Google images:

http://photobucket.com/albums/d86/drsingle2/RFB/?action=view¤t=ww_rfb2.png

Posted by: drsingle | March 7, 2006 08:49 AM

Here is my contribution to the logo!

http://static.v20software.com/rfb_logo.jpg (jpg format)

http://static.v20software.com/rfb_logo.png (png format)

Posted by: jedifreeman | March 7, 2006 08:56 AM

Wil: If you've not had the chance to do so as of yet, I recommend Warren Ellis' Transmetropolitan for some drinking/fighting/flirting. Plus, you get posthumanist dialogue on the state of reality.

http://www.transmetropolitan.com/

Posted by: Zonk | March 7, 2006 08:58 AM

Is it sad that when you said RKO, that I started doing Rocky Horror audience participation lines in my head? ;)

Posted by: Kelly | March 7, 2006 09:00 AM

Kelly--No, it's not, because then I'd be sad, too. For some reason (that has to do with crazy college years, probably) RHPS makes me feel very happy.

Posted by: SeeJane | March 7, 2006 09:16 AM

I like glitchnyc's rfb_Color_rings_white and jedifreeman's.

I must say I'm definitely excited for these 10 min episodes.

Posted by: June | March 7, 2006 09:34 AM

Hey Wil,
I really want that autographed book ;)

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/7255/radiofreeburrito8mz.jpg

Posted by: Just a Swede | March 7, 2006 09:36 AM

OMG! Jedifreeman stole my idea!!!

Posted by: starshine_diva | March 7, 2006 09:41 AM

What type of format do you want the logo in?? I'll have to think about it but I really like the one Jedifreeman has already done - so topping that is going to be hard

Posted by: Reddy | March 7, 2006 09:47 AM

It's a direct ripoff of the old RKO logo, so I'm not sure how usable it is, but I had fun with it, and source files are available.

http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/5049/rfbrkofinal0ub.png

Posted by: Danno | March 7, 2006 10:19 AM

Wil, is that the little garden you almost got killed for falling in, that time on the show?

/making logo, prolly too late

Posted by: stace | March 7, 2006 10:33 AM

I could totally see myself designing this brilliant logo for you. But, alas I am too lazy.

Posted by: Cheri Bomb | March 7, 2006 10:46 AM

Well. There appears to be a little too much talent out there for hacks like me. Here's something a little more 'graphicky'. Let's go large or go home.

View the lameness

I pretty much have to go with Philip's shot at it...it's teh bomb.

Posted by: Grondzilla | March 7, 2006 10:55 AM

my kick at the can, wherein i decided to rebuild the rko logo instead of photohacking it.

http://www.pilgrimomega.com/downloadables/rfb_logo.jpg

Posted by: stace | March 7, 2006 11:44 AM

I am an idiot.

http://www.pilgrimomega.com/downloadables/rfb_logo.jpg

copy paste as you will....:|

Posted by: stace | March 7, 2006 11:46 AM

Tossing mine into the ring --

http://pics.livejournal.com/nentwined/pic/0008kxzz

My votes so far would be for Philip and Danno

Maybe you should pick a couple to rotate through ;) No point in limiting yourself, right?

Posted by: Kaolin Fire | March 7, 2006 12:16 PM

Here's mine!!

Hope you at least get a good laugh out of it ;)

http://ca.geocities.com/starshine_diva/radiofreeburrito.jpg

Posted by: starshine_diva | March 7, 2006 12:19 PM

I have put a logo on my website at http://www.7designpro.com/rfb

I would love the autographed book, so here's hoping that you like it.

Shay

Posted by: Shay | March 7, 2006 12:38 PM

Damn. I guess mine looks too much like an ad. But that can be remedied, if you like the concept. :)

Posted by: starshine_diva | March 7, 2006 01:02 PM

Hey Wil, here's my take on a RFB logo:
RFB Logo Large
RFB Logo Small
RFB Logo Icon Only

Posted by: FriedGeek | March 7, 2006 01:55 PM

I think this captures a bit of the old time feeling with a futuristic update.

RFB Planetary edition

Posted by: Shawn Herrin | March 7, 2006 02:54 PM

Has anyone found a large, good quality copy version of the RKO picture? I've got an idea I want to try, but it needs a better quality picture to work with than what I've currently got.

Mostly after the quality on the broadcasting bit, although detailed earth below it would also be nice.

Posted by: Draxar | March 7, 2006 05:19 PM

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