Thursday, 28 March 2013

The best fact I heard today


From an email thread complaining about stores measuring the unit of price-per-unit in grams, ounces, and units for different items, making it harder to compare prices:

Wednesday, 27 March 2013

Assuming direct control

A few days ago, I was messing around with the OS X `say` command. While browsing the man pages, I noticed that you could pass an argument to change the voice. And then, well, this happened.

My shell-fu is weak, so please, feel free to speak up if you have any improvements!

I'm told that Linux users can use `espeak` as a replacement for `say`, but I can't promise that you will have Harbinger-like creepy whispers.