This cool vid on Gizmodo (hmm… two links in two days to Gizmodo, will have to keep this under review) shows how to bundle iPod earbud headphones.

iPods, as you will probably know, have revolutionised many of those dull dull jobs you have to do as a Lib Dem – many of them leaflet related. I now have a small metal  box full of BBC podcasts to take around with me when I’m letterboxing and the time just flies past.

I’ve also been using them whilst printing leaflets recently – works fine whilst printing, but you have to couple ear buds with ear defenders in order to be able to hear anything over a noisy clacking folding machine.

And it’s using the ear defenders that is the only way I have ever managed to make the bud-style headphones actually stick in my ear for more than a few minutes. I don’t know if I have anatomically wrong ears or something, but for me, earbuds just fall out after a few minutes.  I have to use sports (oh, the irony!) headphones that loop around my ear or the sort on springs that go around your neck – but those are uncomfortable for anything longer than a single edition of the News Quiz.

And while we’re at it, here’s a quick plea for the Beeb:  more comedy podcasts please!