PBS launched a major new website for parents. It features an activity search tool that correlates games, booklists, stories and fun projects with kids' skills and interests.

"Luckily I hadn't had anything to eat or drink; if I'd had a cup of coffee I might have actually been sweating steam and the little recording booth might have exploded," says Ftrain's Paul Ford of a recent taping for NPR's Rewind. (The bit about Rewind is after the bit about Paul falling off a truck, which relates not a whit to public broadcasting but amuses nonetheless.)