Wednesday Burn

[Administrative update - the "RocketFuel" series is being renamed to "Burn."]

::: The Box
The BBC has painted an ordinary shipping container with its BBC logo, outfitted it with a GPS transmitter, and released it into the wilds of global shipping routes.
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::: The Speech Accent Archive

The speech accent archive uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed.

Link via kottke.org

::: How Wired is the Class of 2012?
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