Amazon touted Kindle's text-to-speech as an dedicated e-book reading feature, whereas Apple's VoiceOver, already included on the iPhone, is an accessibility software that can read the text of any screen. Still, by mentioning it in a ... Gizmodo: kindle - http://gizmodo.com/tag/kindle […]

TECH.BLORGE.com In effect, the organization wanted Amazon to pay extra for the audio rights to books. Which, as most people at the time agreed, is absolutely ludicrous. ... See all stories on this topic […]

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A great coastal storm is raging for mid-Atlantic and New England regions. New York City is getting the brunt. Many details can be found on the New York City discussion page. A 74 mph gust was recently reported at JKF. Western Long Island Sound is threatened by a monster storm surge. This is the most severe storm of a very turbulent season, though it is a war […]

When I was young, I often wished my quarrelsome parents would divorce, though I did not think clearly about the consequences. I was only hating the constant discord, the dread of the dinner table, the way I was exploited as a spoil of the war. I wanted it to be over. But maybe I was wrong. […]

(YouTube Link) If you don’t get a bellyful of laughs watching this new version of the Trololololo Guy, I’d be surprised. There’s just something about this meme that won’t stop the creativity of the masses.  (via BuzzFeed) […]

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Strong winds and heavy rain pounded parts of the Northeast on Saturday, knocking out power to more than a half-million homes and businesses and stranding about 500 passengers on a New York-bound train for more than five hours. The New Jersey Transit train became stuck on the tracks more than halfway through its trek from Trenton to New […]

“I would want to be free to attack the character of President Clinton — but this guy [Obama], he gives every indication of being a decent guy,” - Richard Land, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. […]

I have sought the secret for fifty years — never consulting a recipe. That’s me all over. But today I finally did it — I made the world’s best chicken soup. You know how horribly bland the stuff can be. Pouring on the tabasco sauce is no remedy. Then you get hot-bland. Dreadful. But I always thought there must be a way — and there is. If you are patient, you […]

now fully understands the meaning of "unreconciliable differences" and thinks they are two of the saddest words in the English language. […]

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