Tara's Random Musings (Free subscription) | yesterday
It has been three weeks already since my implant switch on! I cant believe how fast it has gone, but also how much I am getting used to the various ins and outs of the CI! As I mentioned in my last post, I was finding the programme a bit quiet, so I asked for another appointment, which I had today. It was decided to bring my “one month” appointment forward and have the full hearing test...
SPORTSbyBROOKS (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Here’s an interesting piece of video from the end of the LSU-Ole Miss game. If you don’t know how badly the Tigers botched the final minute of the game, go here and then come back. If you do, watch LSU Coach Les Miles‘ lips at the :19 mark: That was recorded as live video of Miles and [...]
China Hearsay (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
I was just reading a very good writeup of the Obama visit on China Beat when I noticed an odd reference there to a speech by US Ambassador Huntsman. Following the link, I found this interesting passage: “Don’t mistake me for being an expert, because I’ve been here for three months,” Huntsman said. “And I’ve [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Listening to the Queen reading her leisurely seven-minute speech from the throne, it was hard not to imagine ministers ransacking the attic, dusting off odd bits of legislative furniture with which to spruce up an empty room. Not even the first tentative steps towards the creation of a national care service – 61 years after the National Health Service – raised more than a one-handed clap...
Gadgets Network (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Samsung’s first ruggedized, push-to-talk phone for Verizon. This clamshell CDMA phone meets military specs for durability, and includes a memory card slot, stereo Bluetooth, music player with external controls. Hands-free features include a standard 2.5mm headset jack, speakerphone, voice-dialing, and text-to-speech for hands-free menu navigation and message reading. Read Original Post Here
The Independent (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Considering the hullabaloo created by the proposed changes in the televising of the crown jewels of sport, a proverb occurs. It is that you can take a horse to water but you cannot make him drink. One of the proposals is that home Ashes Test series are shown on free-to-air television. It is generally assumed that this means the BBC, home of all televised cricket until 1999. This presupposes, of course,...
Phi Beta Cons (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
So I started reading this story in today's Inside Higher Ed and immediately thought: "I know how this will end." A tenured librarian at Purdue writes an "anti-gay" blog post at Townhall.com that makes an "economic" argument against homosexual behavior, the post is discovered by activists on his campus, and then controversy erupts. Students write the school newspaper, making...
taxmanblog (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
I've already dubbed the Obamunists as the Junior Achievement administration. See in Junior Achievement, youth get a first hand view of how businesses actually work. Given that most of the people populating the White House, they're starting to learn things they could have learned weeks ago by just reading this blog. Case in point, the pay czar is starting to figure out that if you cut good executives...
Althouse (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
I. Also missing: me, my, mine. I heard the criticism — from my husband Meade who is reading the speech alongside me — that the Fort Hood speech needed another draft, because there was too much use of the passive voice. I suspected that a special effort had been made to eliminate the first person singular. Obama is often criticized for using the word "I" too much. There are Obama...
Tara's Random Musings (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Ok I know I should have posted earlier, but was exhausted and just sorting out how I feel about it etc. On Wednesday I went into Walton and walked around the shops, which was okay, nothing major to report, was just hearing various beeps and noises, heard the key in the door etc. Thursday I had my second lot of appointments, where the tuning was adjusted again, a little louder, and then more rehab....
oboeinsight (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
(Did I already post this at some point? My poor, poor brain! Sorry if this is a repeat!) Besides helping hear speech in noise, musical training correlates with higher reading scores. And Kraus and her team have found musicians are better able to catch the emotional content of sound. These aren’t just skills you pick [...]
Matrixsynth (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
YouTube via ComputerHistory "[Recorded July 13 2009] Ray Kurzweil is a 21st century polymath. He is a scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, author, visionary and futurist. As a scientist and inventor he has pioneered work in optical character recognition (OCR), speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. As an entrepreneur, Kurzweil has founded businesses in the fields of...
Last Left Turn Before Hooterville (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
The timing could not have been more fortuitous. I am, once again, here in Washington, DC with Americans United for Separation of Church and State - along with many of my favorite bloggers - for their annual conference. The West Coasters got in a day early, and I managed to do 3 live music broadcasts yesterday and got a good night's sleep in preparation for the festivities tonight. Little did I know...
SCI FI Wire (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Remember a while back when Star Trek 's William Shatner did a poetic reading of a Sarah Palin speech on The Tonight Show ? Well, he's back, this time with a dramatic reading of tweets from Palin's former future son-in-law and nemesis, Levi Johnston.
About Political Humor (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
During the summer, William Shatner created a sensation when he appeared on The Tonight Show to perform a dramatic reading of Sarah Palin's farewell speech . It proved so popular that Shatner followed it up with a poetic recitation of Palin's Tweets . Last night, Shatner gave the same treatment to Levi Johnston, the attention-whoring father of Palin's grandson, with whom Palin has been feuding. Both...
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