the speech accent archive

This accent archive is right up Joseph's alley. I recognize the phonetic symbols from his time spent editing a Mayan linguistic book. Basically, the site hosts recordings of a passage of English, read by people all over the world.

Got some time to spare? Go to this site and click on "browse," then on "atlas/regions." It's kind-of cool. My only beef is that it's hard to tell where each little flag is before you click, so when you want to hear specific regions, you have to do some guesswork.