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Speak to iTunes Audiobook Service

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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links for 2008-05-11

May 11th, 2008 | Daily Links | No Comments |

• brightkite.com
  “Brightkite is a location-based social network that enables people to take their online profiles with them into the real-world and make real-world friends.”
  (tags: brightkite mobile sms location socialnetworking community web2.0)

links for 2008-05-05

May 5th, 2008 | Daily Links | No Comments |

• TwitterSnooze! v0.13
  Hit the snooze button on your verbose Twitter friends… I can appreciate that it was inspired by Merlin Mann…
  (tags: twitter mashup api socialnetworking snooze funny)
• Summize Conversational Search
  Search Twitter in realtime. Create RSS feeds for searches…
  (tags: search mashup twitter api aggregator)

Test

May 4th, 2008 | Random | No Comments |

Test

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Chris Lehmann at Lewis

May 4th, 2008 | Random | No Comments |

Chris Lehmann at Lewis

Originally uploaded by timlauer

Chris Lehmann was on Portland last week and stopped by Lewis Friday
afternoon.

Lewis Butterfly Garden

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).

links for 2008-04-28

Apr 28th, 2008 | Daily Links | No Comments |

• Science Friday Archives: Michael Pollan - In Defense of Food
  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
  (tags: npr MichaelPollan books nutrition Media podcast food)
• OMNIVORACIOUS: Amazon’s books blog
  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.
  (tags: pollan michaelpollan food schools nutrition gardening)
• Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody
  Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herecomeseverybody.org%2F2008%2F04%2Flooking-for-the-mouse.html
  (tags: no_tag)
• Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 205057-1 : C-SPAN Video Library, Created by Cable. Offered as a Public Service.
  Coverage from the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on the campus of UCLA was shown. Segments are available separately.

  (tags: cspan booktalk brinkley dyson humes watson sager)