{"id":483,"date":"2006-05-24T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T07:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2006\/05\/podulike\/"},"modified":"2006-05-24T07:25:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-24T07:25:00","slug":"podulike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2006\/05\/podulike\/","title":{"rendered":"Podulike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/nikeapple203.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/>Apple and Nike have <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/business\/5010832.stm\" target=\"_blank\">teamed up<\/a> to produce an audio running shoe, as the Nano meets the Trano. Now isn&#8217;t that an inspired pairing of two behemoth brands?<\/p>\n<p>Picking up on this excellent commercial initiative, I have approached potato-selling chain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spudulike.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spudulike<\/a> with a killer concept that can only be a certain high-street winner: Podulike \u00ae\u00a9, the pairing of potatoes and podcasts.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s why potatoes and podcasts are destined to be joined in eternal savoury bliss:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a spudulike potato provides about one third of the recommended daily dose of vitamin C <\/li>\n<li>there are only 25 calories per ounce in a spudulike potato <\/li>\n<li>spudulike potatoes provide B1, niacin and iron (93% of iron in potatoes is usable by the body) <\/li>\n<li>spudulike potatoes are low in sodium (that&#8217;s salt to you and me) and virtually fat free! <\/li>\n<li>the spudulike potato is high on fibre which is doubled when you eat the skin <\/li>\n<li>spudulike potatoes have value as a supplementary source of good quality protein <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the other hand:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a podcast provides about one third of the recommended daily dose of culture<\/li>\n<li>there are zero calories per ounce in a podcast <\/li>\n<li>podcasts provide music, review and commentary (93% of speech in podcasts is usable by the brain) <\/li>\n<li>podcasts are low in advertising (that&#8217;s time-shift time-wasting to you and me) and virtually commerce free! <\/li>\n<li>the podcast is high in fashionable technology which is doubled when you transfer it onto an iPod <\/li>\n<li>podcasts have value as a alternative source of uncensored information<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/Bakedpotato.jpg\" align=right\/>Obviously some technical R&#038;D is necessary, including developing digestible Wi-Fi, edible earbuds, and heat-resistant RSS, but it should be only a matter of time before we are able to taste many more audio flavours in our baked potato podcasts than just Curry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple and Nike have teamed up to produce an audio running shoe, as the Nano meets the Trano. Now isn&#8217;t that an inspired pairing of two behemoth brands? Picking up on this excellent commercial initiative, I have approached potato-selling chain Spudulike with a killer concept that can only be a certain high-street winner: Podulike \u00ae\u00a9, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}