In your review of Aperture 2.0.1, you note:

(Incidentally, the two videos on that page use Apple’s Victoria text-to-speech voice for the narration instead of a human voiceover, a practice I’ve not noticed before. It took a few seconds to pick out what was “wrong” – the occasional clipped words and odd pronunciations that indicated an artificial voice.)

This is a reference to the computer game Portal, the main antagonist in that game is a computer named GlaDOS, who has a voice somewhat similar to the victoria voice and that’s also the reason that there are some grammatical irregularities in the dialogue as well. (“Aperture [Noun]“, which is said several times alludes to how the computer in that game says “Aperture Science,” the name of the company.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TluRVBhmf8w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0PDGp1hL4w

Thanks,

–Corprew

Not relevant to anything in particular, but funny.