The World Around You

This is such a cool tool! I saw it on Chris Pirillo’s site and just had to try it out on mine. Just click on the Speak button under any post and the At&T Naturally Speaking tool will read the post to you. Two warnings:
1) It gives up when it gets to quote marks and stops.
2) It only reads the first 49 words.

Try it out!

The London Observer reports in their Sunday edition that a missile strike was conducted on a convoy that “firm” information indicated included Sadaam and one of his sons.

American specialists were carrying out DNA tests last night on human remains believed by US military sources to be those of Saddam Hussein and one of his sons, The Observer can reveal.
The remains were retrieved from a convoy of vehicles struck last week by US forces following ‘firm’ information that the former Iraqi leader and members of his family were travelling in the Western Desert near Syria.

Military sources told The Observer that the strikes, involving an undisclosed number of Hellfire missiles, were launched against the convoy last Wednesday after the interception of a satellite telephone conversation involving either Saddam or his sons.

The operation, which has not yet been disclosed by the Pentagon, involved the United States air force and ground troops of the Third Armoured Cavalry Regiment based around Ramadi, a major town 70 miles west of Baghdad.

Keep your eye on this one. Most likely a false alarm, but you can bet the President is holding his breath and praying hard.