What if Babbage’s Difference Engine spawned a “laptop”? It’s hard to find more desirable and satisfying (in a tactile sort of way) mechanical fetish item from the age of early computing… For years Curta calculators enjoyed a cult status among collectors, and as recently as in 2003 they were featured in William Gibson’s “Pattern Recognition” book. …
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Hicks on a Plane — Jet Blue Flight Cut Short After Fight Erupts
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=23627A JetBlue flight from Boston, Massachusetts, to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was diverted Saturday when a fight broke out after someone was smoking in the bathroom, federal officials said. One passenger aboard JetBlue Flight 455 was taken into custody at Raleigh-Durham International Airport in North Carolina after the plane landed about 5:45 p.m. …
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