May 11th, 2008 | Web Tools | No Comments |
Michael Tyson, a Computer Science PhD student, living in Melbourne, Australia, has created a service (Speak to iTunes Audiobook Service) running on Mac OS X that converts any text to an iTunes compatible audio file. Select some text, invoke the service, and his tool converts the text into a spoken file using the Mac OS X text to speech tool. The file is placed in the Audiobooks section of your iTunes collection.
I installed the service and converted a few articles. I found the result to be pretty good. Not the same as having had it read by a person, but useful none the less.
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May 11th, 2008 | Daily Links | No Comments |
May 4th, 2008 | Random | No Comments |

Test
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May 4th, 2008 | Random | No Comments |

Chris Lehmann at Lewis
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Chris Lehmann was on Portland last week and stopped by Lewis Friday
afternoon.
May 3rd, 2008 | Random | 1 Comment |
On Thursday we began construction of a butterfly garden around the SW entrance to my school, Lewis Elementary. This garden was made possible through the $3,700 WISE Owl Grant and PSU. The design is by our Americorp Volunteer, Julia Hamlin
We are in need of volunteers to help on the following days:
Thursday, May 1st 3-6 (cut trenching for pathway),
- Thursday May 15th 3-6 (load sod in a trailer & spread compost),
- Sunday May 18th 9-12 (planting)
- Thursday May 22nd 3-6 (finishing touches and bird bath installation).

Apr 28th, 2008 | Daily Links | No Comments |
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Interview with Michale Pollan, author of In Defense of Food, and The Omnivore’s Dilemma: Searching for the Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World
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Michale Pollan’s posts, “Today’s food movement has many faces, some of them more prominent in certain places than others. There is the movement to reform school lunch. There is the effort to regulate or ban the marketing of food to children.
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Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herecomeseverybody.org%2F2008%2F04%2Flooking-for-the-mouse.html
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Coverage from the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on the campus of UCLA was shown. Segments are available separately.