Slate’s noose loosens

Someone must have complained. I see on Slate’s home page that the wording on their gif headline for a story about New York Times executive editor Howell Raines (see below) has been changed, so that “noose” is now “leash”.

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Super-dub machine

This story out of Boston is making the rounds:

“At MIT, they can put words in our mouths”

From the article:

[…] the researchers taped a woman speaking into a camera, and then reprocessed the footage into a new video that showed her speaking entirely new sentences, and even mouthing words to a song in Japanese, a language she does not speak.

Where can I sign up?