redefining “podcast”

From 37signals: Creative tries to redefine “Podcast”: Can you hear it? Can you hear that whirring sound? That’s the spin over at Creative ZENcast. According to them… Podcasts, short for Personal On Demand broadCast, are audio files you can download into any MP3 player or computer. A for effort, F for give me a fucking …

pilot dumps drunk man on island

don’t piss off monarch air: The unidentified man swore at crew and passengers after being refused a bottle of wine on the four-hour flight from Manchester to Tenerife. He became so abusive the fed-up pilot diverted the Monarch Airlines Airbus to Porto Santo island off West Africa. After the plane touched down, the man was …

Bill Gates’ predictions about speech recognition

Bill Gates’ predictions about speech recognition: a historical review Bill Gates, 1 October 1997: “In this 10-year time frame, I believe that we’ll not only be using the keyboard and the mouse to interact, but during that time we will have perfected speech recognition and speech output well enough that those will become a standard …