I know a lot of folks are sensitive to copyright and IP rights, etc, but I had to share part of Obama's speech today in Louisiana. Instead of video or audio, I'd like to share this with you as I experienced it via CSPAN.org today while working. I use Spaces in Mac OS X (Snow Leopard, if you're keeping score at home), and have six spaces with various apps for work scattered among them. Firefox with cspan.org on the second space, me working diligently in Terminal and Entourage on the first, with an open mic on my headset for MacSpeech Dictate... Obama's words began to appear in my active window, well, some semblance of Obama's words. Into Terminal and a root CLI prompt. The software requires a bit of training to be accurate...so I really became concerned when it decided to highlight and edit huge chunks of texts at random, inserting subsequent words in their stead, and continuing on with some train of thought. Here's MacSpeech Dictate's untrained interpretation of Obama's speech:

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Thankfully, MacSpeech Dictate does a far better job with my voice than it does Obama's.