A cool story on how a text-to-voice software company is giving Roger Ebert his voice back – after a fashion.
Here is an interview with the CTO of CereProc explaining his company’s product and plans.
Category Archives: Science & Nature & Technology
xkcd: Devotion to Duty
One day, if I try real hard, this could be me. Because I am positively obsessed about uptime.
Inside Obama’s Plan To Spend $8 Billion On High-Speed Rail
Some information on the President’s plans to give this nation a modern high speed rail system.
Also, Wired has a history of high speed rail plus a good map of the new US routes being proposed. For a nation this big, this just makes sense. And we’ve got a lot of catching up to do.
Plus, I love trains.
Computing For Dummies: Five Ways That N00bs Annoy Geeks | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Well, somebody finally made a list of things that really, really, really piss of their geek friends, relatives, and co-workers.
FRONTLINE/WORLD . Haiti Quake: Keeping Haiti’s Internet Alive | PBS
As the lead-in states, getting Haiti’s internet stable seems really low on the priority list when people still can’t get proper food and shelter after the quake.
That said, the nation needs to get it’s infrastructure back up if it wants to get out of the state of emergency. And these seem like the folks who can get it done.
Data Privacy Day is January 28 | GeekDad | Wired.com
I read about Data Privacy Day today over at GeekDad. I then went over to the main project site to read up on the whole thing.
Honestly, give it a look over and maybe check out your online settings.
Darpa: U.S. Geek Shortage Is National Security Risk | Danger Room | Wired.com
I mean, I already knew this nation was filled with people proud of their ignorance. Besides the random Oakland Raiders fans and folks who actually enjoyCeline Dion, you’ve got the risk of Tea Party Traitors who genuflect in orgasmic glee and supported – and voted for – a complete nitwit for Vice President.
What I did NOT know was that our lack of educated citizens – and geeky folks in particular – was a national security risk. So sayeth DARPA. Read about it here.
Yep, your birther/Talibangelical co-workers, neighbors, and family members are in league with the enemies of America. THEY are the problem.
As for you: go read and play with gadgets!
Why I Believe Printers Were Sent From Hell To Make Us Miserable – The Oatmeal
The rest of the funny here.
Resurrecting the Extinct
Here’s an ethical dilemma for you: we almost have the science to resurrect extinct animals. Where to begin? The dodo bird? Passenger pigeons? Woolly mammoths?
More importantly, where to end? Do we go so far as to bring back Neanderthals? I’m pretty sure it won’t go like Encino Man.
China’s 863 Program, a crash program for clean energy : The New Yorker
One of the worst crimes of the Bush years – indeed of any Luddite conservative policy – is that we basically turned off the spigot of new scientific learning through an active policy of fear and loathing of science. The genetic throwbacks ruining our education system are going to destroy a generation of young minds with their creationism and bullshit watered-down science as well.
The Chinese communist system may be lacking in a lot of things, but their ability to turn on their nation’s creative juices for researching green energy solutions is one of the reasons that their economy may eclipse our’s in the coming years.
And we’ll have the conservative’s fearful interference and our own spineless response to their anti-American stupidity to blame when it happens.