Seen here, at the bottom of the thread. Not sure where it’s originally from though.

Intravenous Starbucks

Yes please

ashlaf:

Can I have one of these? Stat!

microwalrus:

andi-b:

dukkha:

(via jennaaaa) (via helloimrachel) (via pie0)

Hah! Where can I get one of these?

“The Limits of control” Official trailer in HIGH DEFINITION (via SonrisTrailers)

– oh hell yes, need moar existential hitmen movies with Bill Murray!

(Source: http://youtube.com/)

Forget DRML, you don’t need it: think Google Translate. There exists a corpus of audiobooks, with intonation (thanks to professional readers). There exists speech-to-text software. It should be possible to build a corpus of spoken phrases, correlated with the reader’s intonation, and then match text from a new work against the corpus to take a “best guess” approach to how to emphasize it. (Google is apparently doing something similar, using the UN’s gigantic corpus of multilingual translations of documents to build a database of phrase-level translations into multiple languages, which can then be applied to web pages. It’s effectively a non realtime mechanical turk, leveraging the historic work of an army of translators.

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Posted by: Charlie Stross | February 27, 2009 2:39 PM

Open the Future: John Henry was an Audiobook-Readin’ Man

TERMINATOR SALVATION New Official Trailer 3 (HD 720p) (via AEmovieguy)

– i am ridiculously excited about this movie.. which looks to change the franchise from ‘kill the machines’ to ‘co-evolution is our real future’ (just as it always haz been). plus, SHINY!

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)