Click here to view this media Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry Thursday responded to criticism from people like former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Karl Rove by attacking the city that he wants to make his new home. “With all due respect to anybody that’s out there either directly or indirectly criticizing me because I speak plainly, I call it like I see it,” Perry told conservative radio host Laura Ingraham. “Look, I am not an establishment figure, never have been and frankly I don’t want to be. I dislike Washington; I think it’s a seedy place.” He continued: “Our country is in trouble and I don’t have the privilege to sit on the sideline and watch our country be destroyed economically by a president who has been conducting an experiment on the American economy for the last two and half years. My wife told it like it was when she looked me in the eye and said listen, you have to do your duty. And that’s what I’m doing”
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Friday’s links talk weather, style and painting to get you through the last day of the week. Weather Menace: El Niño is blamed for a rash of weather problems. But does it cause civil wars, too? (Ecocentric) In-Flight Fail: A folk singer says he was removed from a United Airlines flight for reading a book
Continue reading …Hurricanes and Melissa Cook just don’t get along. Last August, she and her boyfriend, Jason Archbell, got engaged on a trip to the Outer Banks of North Carolina; the celebratory week at the beach was cut short when Hurricane Earl prompted mandatory evacuations. This August, the happy couple from Philadelphia made a return trip to
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All eleven Atlantic City casinos will be closed for only the third time in 33 years as Hurricane Irene moves up the East Coast and closer to New Jersey. (Aug. 26)
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All eleven Atlantic City casinos will be closed for only the third time in 33 years as Hurricane Irene moves up the East Coast and closer to New Jersey. (Aug. 26)
Continue reading …Apple patent application imagines iPhones that learn the sweet sound of your voice
August 26, 2011 No Comment
Button-loathing Apple really wants people to stop dirtying its devices with sticky fingerprints . That’s why it’s applied for a patent that should improve the frustrating experience of using iOS’s voice control — precisely the kind of update we’ve been awaiting since Apple bought Siri last year. With the help of a technology billed as “User profiling for voice input processing,” your device would identify your voice, check against a library of words associated with you without having to trawl through its entire dictionary. We just hope Apple doesn’t do away with physical inputs entirely — we’d hate to broadcast to the world all the guilty pleasures we have loaded on our iPods. Apple patent application imagines iPhones that learn the sweet sound of your voice originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …It’s not a good week for celebrity relationships: After three years together, New York Yankee Derek Jeter and actress Minka Kelly are splitting up. “The split was amicable,” sources tell Just Jared . “But they remain friends. They still really care for each other.” Kelly’s rep confirmed the break-up to Popsugar…
Continue reading …Tens of thousands protested across Syria today, and in many places they met with security forces using live ammunition to disperse them. The theme of the demonstrations was “patience and determination,” according to the AP . “We are here to tell the regime that nothing is finished, nothing will finish, and…
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