Stories of people trying to exorcize their inner demons.

Prologue.

Host Ira Glass talks about not being able to admit when he's wrong, as well as other traits he's not proud of, but can't seem to change. (3 minutes)

Act One. And So We Meet Again.

Sam Slaven is an Iraq War veteran who came home from the War plagued by feelings of hate and anger toward Muslims. TAL producer Lisa Pollak tells the story of the unusual action Sam took to change himself, and the Muslim students who helped him do it. (34 minutes)

Act Two. Vox Diaboli.

Sometimes the inner voice telling us to do the wrong thing actually sounds like a voice. TAL producer Nancy Updike talks to people about the voices in their heads that persuade them to go astray. (6 minutes)

Song: "Lexicon Devil," The Germs

Act Three. The Devil Wears Birkenstocks.

Some people battle inner demons, but contributor Dave Dickerson went one step further. Dave tells the story of the time he took on an actual demon in his college classroom. (10 and 1/2 minutes)

Song: "Jesus and the Devil," David Karsten Daniel

Good...

This American Life - 340: The Devil in Me

OMFG! This is must see...

BLEVE's (boiling liquid expanding vapour explosion) & PEPCON Video

Before starting Artic Technologies the founders worked together in the Research & Development group of VOTRAX, a pioneering company in speech synthesis since the early 1970s. Back then, speech synthesizers were built from scratch using hundreds of components and sometimes requiring several circuit boards in a case as big as a bread box. This size was eventually reduced down to a single 24 pin chip known as the SC02 (now called the 263) chip. While at Votrax the founders worked together on many ground breaking projects of the time including...

* Speech devices for computers of the day (including S100 bus ,TRS-80, Atari, etc.)
* The original Handi-Voice (the first portable communicator for non-verbal users)
* The SC01 and SC02 (renamed 263) phoneme synthesizer chips.
* Type N' Talk (external speech device, computer interfaceable)
* PSS - Personal Speech System (external speech device, computer interfaceable)
* Collaborated with various sound Artists such as:
o Sound Effects creator for the movie "TRON"
o German Electronic Music group "Kraftwerk"

Heh...

Artic History

Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar
Published September/October 1982 Byte Publications Inc.
by Steven A. Ciarcia, POB 582, Glastonbury, CT 06033 USA. All rights reserved

Build the Microvox Text-to-Speech Synthesiser Part 1. Hardware
The 6502 microprocessor in this intelligent peripheral device translates plain English text to phonemes to control a Votrax SC-01A.

Build the Microvox Text-to-Speech Synthesiser Part 2. Text-to-Speech
Rules for conversion of English plain text to phonemes govern the operation of this SC-01A-based device

I now have a serial Microvox and am going to place it up on the web. This was lent to me by a friend and I am wondering if anyone else remembers such a device.

I love old hardware and am thinking about sticking up a Perl script or whatever to allow people to send text to it via the web.... (record it ? )

hoary for old hardware ...

The Microvox 25 years later...

Hope it was a blast guys...

PRK the MUG...

ommunity Enhancement Grants Controversy: This year, state legislators set aside $20 million dollars for a program that supporters called “Community Enhancement Grants”, but critics termed “pork barrel spending”. So far, only $2 million has been awarded, but some legislators are reportedly upset because they’re afraid some of their pet projects won’t get funded. Our state capitol correspondent, Joe White came in to the studio to discuss the controversy with WPLN’s Morning Edition Host, Jacqueline Fellows. (10/25/07)

I think our local ham radio club filled out the application correctly but now we are probably getting turned down because we are "NOT a PET project."

This is not direct represenatation!

WTF!

Gavin

*update*

http://wpln.org/news/SOSAwardsSoFar.xls

TN Enhancement Grants Controversy(MP3)

Here’s one of my favorite quotes from my teacher in India, Nisargadatta Maharaj:

There is nothing to do. Just be. Do nothing. Be.
No climbing mountains and sitting in caves.
I do not even say “be yourself” since you do not know yourself.
Just be.

This idea may contradict everything you’ve been taught and how you’ve lived so far, but let it sink in anyway. If your lifetime inventory of ideas and rules has contributed to your being one of those 112 million who use medication to handle nonexistent stress, you can certainly afford to entertain this thought. As you begin practicing the principles to realign with a vibration that matches your desire for a tranquil, peaceful life, you’ll become more conscious of your thoughts. These thoughts of yours literally determine who you are. And the fact that you’re reading these words suggests that you’re interested in becoming more conscious of your thoughts.

Being and becoming are used synonymously here. In order to restore a sense of balance between your desire for tranquility and your desire to meet the requirements of your life, you must practice becoming, and being the vibration that you desire.

read past the cheesy title and you will find out it is a great read...

Realigning Your Point of Attraction: The Art of Becoming «

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# STMicroelectronics STR711FR0/1 ARM7 "crypto" processor Datasheet
# Soft-switch on power, controlled by crypto processor
# TTL serial port @38400 8N1

# The "Ironforge" production chumby runs Linux 2.6.16 kernel. *WOOT*

Here are the guts for my last post...

The Hardware of a Chumby

There are some dreams that we have to admit to ourselves will never come true. I'll most likely never get the chance to travel to another planet. And my chances of becoming a world famous rock star get smaller every year.

But I have finally gotten the chance to fulfill one of my long-held dreams.

I am now a character on The Simpsons.

I know what you're thinking. How did you pull that off?

Well, I am now a resident of the town of Springfield, thanks to a great new Web application called the Simpsonizer. Using this simple application I was able to upload a photo of myself and with the help of the aliens Kang and Kodos I was converted into a properly drawn cartoon character from the Simpsons.

The application itself is simple enough and it provides plenty of appearance and clothing options (plus the ability to put yourself in scenes, like going to the Kwik-E-Mart).

Couple of tips. The site is busy so if you can go at off hours that will probably work best. Also, try to use a pure headshot without a lot going on in the background.

With a little luck, in no time you will see yourself in the same way that Homer, Marge, Bart and Lisa would. I have to say, it is a very cool application.

haha try it...

Or to put it as famous Springfield news anchor Kent Brockman would, "Is the Simpsonizer the most important technology innovation of our time? This reporter says, Yes!"

http://simpsonizeme.com/
http://simpsonizeme.com/

SimpsonizeMe (Fun Flash Toy)

NSA@home is a fast FPGA-based SHA-1 and MD5 bruteforce cracker. It is capable of searching the full 8-character keyspace (from a 64-character set) in about a day in the current configuration for 800 hashes concurrently, using about 240W of power. This performance is equivalent to over 1500 Athlon FX-60 CPUs, which would take about 250kW.

Kick ass! and look at the hit map he has too...

Gavin

Junk Hacked... FPGA-based SHA-1 and MD5 bruteforce cracker...