Even when Rethugs attempt to understand technology (“It’s a series of TUBES!!!!), they screw it up. Here is Bush’s former Director of National Intelligence (wow, talk about a heckuvajob kinda guy) still trying to turn somewhat valid fears into ways to spy on Americans and earn profits for his pals.
Seriously, where do these guys get off calling themselves patriots when they are all about trading freedom for profits?
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.
One day, if I try real hard, this could be me. Because I am positively obsessed about uptime.
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.
Well, somebody finally made a list of things that really, really, really piss of their geek friends, relatives, and co-workers.
The rest of the funny here.
Here’s an interesting chart of gadgets in recent years. I’d link you directly to the originating site but, well, firewall is blocking it at work.
Frankly, I love this story. It is about a Japanese fansub site that knows how much to abuse their customers and get away with it.
I’ve been working in IT or just technology for basically the past 13 years or so and you’ve got to understand that most of us view the rest of humanity as a pack of mouthbreathing dimwits. The things we say about you would make you cringe. I mean, in the main, you’re dealing with simple machines and the average user can find ways to cripple an application or bust a printer than ever an entire tribe of chimps on roid rage and ecstasy couldn’t if they really, really tried.
So to see a company actually embrace that antipathy just makes me smile.
I found this to be really indicative of how quickly technology has advanced in just my lifetime (so far! I’m not done yet!) The original is here and it covers more than just music.
I found this over at Geekologie.
Check out your broadband speed. Mine isn’t too bad considering I’m pulling down a lot of files to rebuild the box while running the test.
