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An article over at TechCrunch reviews a new company called vlingo who is developing a mobile API that developers can use to put speech recognition on mobile devices.
Their system starts with a basic statistical language model to make the best guess about what you say. It then improves upon that by taking into account context, [...]

The Everybody Go To blog hosted a giveaway of a signed USB Drink Cooler and a cool USB Desk Lamp back at the end of July. The winner was announced on July 29th… and it was me! I got the goods in and have finally gotten around to getting a few snapshots of them. Sorry [...]

If you haven’t checked out the site Worse Than Failure (yeah, we all know what WTF stands for), then you should go right now. Bookmark it or subscribe to their feed. Some of the stuff they post is absolutely hilarious… if you are a programmer / technical type. Anyway today’s post is about someone being [...]

Well, I only got two runs in last week, but it was the first week in a while (for exercise that is). I got my aging keister out of bed this morning at 5:15 AM CST and got out the ole running shoes and iPod. It was actually a decent run and felt really good. [...]

Tim Ferriss, author of the The 4-Hour Work Week, has published a great list of 9 Not-To-Do’s in an article titled The Not-To-Do List: 9 Habits to Stop Now. I thought this was a really great read for anyone trying to increase the productivity in their life. I’ve listed a few of my favorites below:
1. [...]

I heard this song on the classic rock station the other day and had to look it up. I thought it was kind of funny talking about “cutting my hair”. I guess back then it was kind of a big deal for guys to have long hair around corporate or conservative type folks. I like [...]

What a great time to be a geek! It seems that every time I turn around there is yet another reason the media gives us for being a geek. Napolean Dynamite took the world by storm. Now we have… Superbad, a coming-of-age cautionary tale about two socially inept teenage boys about to graduate high school. [...]

LyricWiki is a free site which is a source where anyone can go to get reliable lyrics for any song from any artist without being hammered by invasive ads.
The LyricWiki Search Widget is a WordPress plugin that provides a widget to place a search box right on the sidebar of your WordPress site so that [...]

Mashable.com just posted this list of Firefox Tools and had to give it some cred. I have to say, the folks at Mashable create some killer lists. Here are just a few to wet your appetite.
2 Pane Bookmark - Splits your bookmarks in to two panes, the top one showing the folders, the bottom one [...]

Sun Microsystems To Let More People Go
— Goldman Sachs predicted another restructuring at Sun last week amid the euphoria that a first look at Sun’s June numbers engendered with investors and, lo and behold, Sun Tuesday confided to the SEC that it’s anticipating throwing a unquantified number of its staff from ‘various geographies’ out on [...]