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We Made a One-Handed Keyboard HTX Studio I have been thinking about a One-Handed Keyboard off and on since college, some 45 years ago. I...

Qwerkywriter S Michigan Mike muses: I wrote a lot on manual typewriters. If this jammed and made too much noise it might be okay. ...

Awesome Christopher Walken Impressions Natalie Hubert Last week, or maybe the week before, we're watching the Olympics on TV, in pa...

An interesting story in the NY Times about some grass-roots techniques . Via Burro Hall.

I kind of think I have figured out how the world works, but putting it into words is another matter. Here is one more attempt. There are two...

Tonight's episode of CSI dealt with hoarding. Laurence Fishburne quoted Erich Fromm , which is a name I hadn't heard since high sc...

Watching one of those YouTube videos of a record playing on a turntable, I realized that if your eye can pick up 30 frames per second, and y...

My wife tells me that airfare for travel on September 11th is really cheap. Evidently even years after the event, people are still afraid to...

It just occurred to me that although the Republicans are generally accusing the Democrats of being bleeding hearts, they are ones wrapping t...

I've got a new theory as to why alcohol is our preferred drug: it makes people gregarious. Most of your other drugs like marijuana and o...

I found this on Sipsey Street Irregulars . As near as I can tell, the numbers are all conjecture, but they do sound reasonable. During the A...

I have come up with yet another excuse for a public works project to put all the unemployed to work: Civilization depends on it! Look at the...

My daughter cut up a watermelon for a fruit salad this afternoon. I have never seen anyone cut up a watermelon by cutting the rind off fi...

I just read a column by Leonard Pitts Jr . in our local paper, which prompted me to start writing this. At first I thought it was a column b...

There is nothing new under the sun. Tip of the ball cap to Roberta X .

At lunch today we are talking about traffic jams and Dennis suggests that we just haven't found the right music. With the right music, h...

This is an excerpt from a longer article written in 2005 by Glenn Harlan Reynolds , aka Instapundit . Mostly I don't care too much for ...

My wife and I went to see The Receptionist this afternoon. It was a play put on in the old Armory building. I didn't really know what t...

I just finished rereading Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein . I first read it a long time ago, probably when I was a teenage...

Took the family to see Mel Gibson in Edge of Darkness yesterday evening. Ross wanted to see Mel Gibson getting in people's faces, and h...