I spent five wonderful years in Austin, Texas, in the late 80’s and early 90’s. While life there was mighty fine, just imagine if I could have been a contented resident of Austin, Minnesota. Instead, I’m left to dream about a potential vacation to Austin, MN, to see … the Hormel Spam Museum. Wired has… Read More: My Dream Vacation »
John Eisenhower | Why I Will Vote for John Kerry for President John Eisenhower is the son of the late Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower. John served on the White House staff and had been a lifelong Republican until the last few years. In addition to his disapproval of the way the current leadership initiated… Read More: John Eisenhower to Vote for… Kerry »
VoIP Market Leaders Declare a Price War – Voxilla.com The recent drops in monthly rates for AT&T CallVantage, Vonage, and Broadvox Direct suggest that the consumer VoIP market is heating up and that these companies all expect adoption rates to take off at a much quicker pace soon. When the inflection point occurs, you don’t… Read More: VoIP on the Cheap »
A beta version of Sphinx-4, an open source speech recognition engine implemented in Java, was recently released. Sphinx development is centered out of Carnegie-Mellon University, with major contributions from employees at Sun, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, and HP and smaller contributions from individuals at UC Santa Cruz and MIT. Ideas that are unlikely to come… Read More: Sphinx-4 Beta »
Okay, maybe not. But if Linux isn’t involved, why the heck are these penguins fondling a toilet on a studio set for Laugh-In? The rest of the page at the Toto site has many other fascinating photos that reveal more about Japanese culture than I thought possible in a set of marketing photos from a… Read More: Linux Powered Toilet »