Podcasts
Here's a list of good podcasts that I like. Most of these are video podcasts, suitable for watching on your TV, but there's a handful you can listen to on the bus.
Food
The Minimalist. Mark Bitman is a charming, non-celebrity non-chef who is good at teaching other people how to cook.
Cooks Illustrated Test Kitchen. Strangely earnest and well-meaning folk try out kitchen recipes, equipment and techniques.
Music
Q TV. The incomparable Jian Ghomeshi hosts music and interviews. There's some rights weirdness that prevents the performances showing up in the podcast, but you can find them on YouTube.
All Songs Considered: Live Concerts. The NPR All Songs Considered show also broadcasts live concerts from various venues.
KEXP. Seattle-based radio station with a good library of performances by visiting artists.
Radio shows
Discourse. NZ's best seminerdy podcast, featuring the stylish and debonair Ben Gracewood and some other guy as well.
Car Talk. Weekly radio show where people call in with car problems. Tom and Ray Magliozzi try to diagnose them over the phone. Funnier than it sounds, even if you don't care about cars.
Brain food
TED Talks. You know what this is.
Put This On. How to dress like a grownup, for nerdy men.
Coffee Break Spanish. A quick and painless way to learn the most widely-spoken language in the world.
Coffee Break French. A quick and painless way to learn a slightly less useful language in about ten minutes a day.
News
Washington Post Documentary Videos. Pierre Kattar does video journalism in a compelling, non-commercial style.
Local affairs
Media 7. The only New Zealand current affairs TV show that isn't aimed at eight year olds.
Fair Go. A dilapidated, dorky icon of New Zealand TV that is as at least as old as me.
Eye candy
Dive Film HD. Exactly what it sounds like. A weekly dose of pretty.
Apple Keynotes. Two or three times a year, Apple spend 90 minutes showing you just how much your PowerPoint presentations suck.