My new "Doing Things" album is the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo soundtrack. It's both energetic and weirdly calming.

I find that i generally work better with more instrumental type stuff, than standard tunes.   big fan of Thievery Corporation, Four Tet, Battles (if i'm looking for more frenetic stuff), Eno's soundscape music for more mellow stuff (Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks / or music for films), Medeski, Martin and Wood is a great jazz(ish) 3 piece, or maybe Whitest Boy Alive.

But then every now and then I'll work to Zappa...but that can be somewhat all consuming, so do that at your own risk.

Audiobooks tends to be my audio-listening of choice for the work that doesn't really need all my mental focus.

Roguelike Radio
Also, not a podcast, but I watch a lot of Jef Major's stuff. He does "Let's Plays" for various games, usually weird little games that don't get much attention because they're indie or really niche. He broadcasts every saturday for like 6 or 8 hours and just does random shit. Mostly playing games or generally fucking around, but he's funny as hell and I've discovered dozens of little awesome games because of him.

I've never really listened to many podcasts, tho. DiF has kinda gotten me into them, mostly thanks to The Intermission. I'd like to know about some more good ones, and not just limited to movies or games, either. Just good podcasts in general.

I tend to go with audiobooks as well fairly often.  In terms of other podcasts, Jake Lloyd turned me onto WTF with Marc Maron.  Lots of good interviews with comedians and actors.

Filmspotting just started a spin-off called Filmspotting SVU (Streaming Video Unit), and the first episode is on the Filmspotting iTunes feed right now. I highly recommend it. It's a nice change of pace from normal film review shows, and the hosts have great chemistry.

re: podcasts

The Nerdist
Stuff You Should Know
WTF
BS Report (Bill Simmons - espn)
The Hollywood Saloon (not very frequent, but when they dive into something, it's pretty detailed - whether or not you agree with them is something entirely different)
Pod F Tompkast
This American Life
Mike and Tom Eat Snacks  - what it sounds like (Michael Ian Black and Tom Cavanagh pick, eat, then rate snacks..pretty funny)