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It sounds too good to be true, but here's a website where you can get business cards and other stationery printed for next to nothing. In most cases all you pay is the postage (usually $8 an order for me).

There is a wide selection of designs you can choose from, and the end result looks very professional. The only drawback is that once you sign up, you will receive frequent e-mails touting their next special, but it's not that intrusive.

Try it.

After 25 years on air, Australia's favorite Sunday night broadcasters still cling to their motto "You're only young once but anyone can be immature." Their unique mix of reportage, music and tongue-in-cheek humor makes for a fun end to the weekend.

And during the southern Summer months, they also have their Saturday night show "The Idlers" which concentrates more on travel and lifestyle.

Give it a listen!

The AccuRadio story [from their website]

AccuRadio is a multichannel Internet radio station specifically designed to showcase the potential of the exciting new medium of Internet radio!

AccuRadio is also the first multichannel Internet radio station desgined specifically for adults with sophisticated musical tastes.

We currently reach over 1,000,000 unique listeners per month (as many as a large New York City radio station), with an audience of as many 20,000 simultaneous listeners on weekdays during business hours (Internet radio's "prime time").

Based on Arbitron data and other sources, we believe we are one of the five largest multichannel webcasters in the world.

AccuRadio's audience is approximately 60/40 male/female and almost equally divided between the 25-34, 35-44, and 45-54 age groups, with an average age of 41.



AccuRadio has been carefully constructed to help record companies and
recording artists sell records:
(1) We give exposure and airplay to numerous genres of music and
hundreds of artists that virtually never receive broadcast radio
airplay.
(2) We constantly display the title and artist and album name for the
song that's playing.

(3) We display the CD covers of the last three songs we've played, with
each cover linking to the appropriate Amazon page for purchasing that
CD.

(4) We sell almost $40,000 worth of CDs per month via our Amazon links,
and, according to our listener surveys, directly influence the sales of
$200,000 to $400,000 more from other retailers.

Listen to today's show or any for the last week. Free registration may be necessary.

After a brief hiatus, the show is now streamed over the Internet again, with Greg Bell in the chair to present all your old favorites from the heyday of radio. Always worth checking to see what's on this week.

Here's a fan site for my favorite late-night radio show. You can even hear it in streaming audio over the Internet or get a podcast of the best interviews.

Another free site for e-book texts. I like this one because it has quite a few pre-war pulp novels.

The only problem is that the site is only indexed by the title of the book, not by author or series.

Still, if you know the name of the story you're looking for, that's not a problem.

We’re online 24 hours a day and our hosts are here to bring you the best in traditional and contemporary bluegrass. Because our bluegrass hosts are musicians, ethnomusicologists, historians, producers and festival-goers people all over the world have discovered that bluegrass is one of the most interesting, honest and heart-felt musical formats. And because we grew out of the American tradition of public broadcasting we don’t make you pay to listen - all we ask is that if you like what you hear you become a member and help support the music.

At the age of eight, Jim French knew what he wanted to do with his life: he wanted to be a radio announcer. With this seemingly impossible goal tucked in the back of his mind, he turned a room over the family garage into a make-believe radio studio. His pretending paid off six years later. It was 1943, most radio announcers were fighting in WW2, and Jim got a job playing piano and announcing on KPAS in Pasadena, California, a mile away from his home. From that time on, Jim was seldom without some connection to radio.

It was at KVI Seattle that he began producing radio dramas on a weekly basis. Moving back to KIRO in 1980, he continued writing and directing dramas for a weekly series called "KIRO Mystery Playhouse", and in in 1995, TransMedia, the syndicating company, began sending his radio plays around the country under the title of "Imagination Theatre".

Jim has written and produced nearly 500 original shows, including the popular "Harry Nile" and "The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" series, which are now broadcast on over 120 stations in the U.S. and Canada, and are also heard on the XM Satellite Radio system all over North America.

Every week he offers the weekly Imagination Theater radio broadcast to listeners via a streaming webcast.

One of the websites that I tend to check every day. Lots of interesting people talking about old time radio shows and (mostly) associated topics. And so helpful -- this is a good place to find that elusive episode of _______ you've always regretted missing.

Escape and Suspense are the two favorite shows of this fan of old-time radio drama. Individual shows are posted and discussed on this nice little website.

This is the radio station that I listen to. First thing in the morning and last thing at night, this is the sound that's in my ears.

17,000 free e-books (available in 17 different formats) of all genres ranging from pulp space opera to classics of philosophy. Matthew McClintock maintains manybooks.net as a service to the internet community at large. All of the eBooks from manybooks.net are free, however donations toward the maintenance of the site are welcome.

Recommended for your reading pleasure.

The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in the Presidio of San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections.

If you absolutely definitely need to have the very best quality recordings of vintage radio programmes, this is the place for you. These high-quality CDs sound as though they were recorded last week instead of 60 years ago.