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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http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=23637Campaign Updates — Meanwhile McCain’s campaigners are trying to get Barr off the PA ballot although he followed the rules. Bob Barr. Troublemaker or last honest man? Last night, our campaign manager, Russell Verney, submitted a very clear letter to the Texas Secretary of State. …
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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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Mat's little world of pianos, theatre, and performance
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Randy M. Santa Ana: I Animate
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What’s the deal with Seinfeld doing ads for Microsoft? He’s a MAC User!! Dvorak Uncensored: General interest observations and true web-log.
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Non Sequitur
http://folloder.wordpress.comWhat happens when you have research grant money needing to be spent? You spend it on silly, but headline generating things. I was reading Dvorak Uncensored and found this story about a study conducted by the University of the West of Scotland in collaboration with colleagues in Belgium The sum of stride length and vertebral rotation was greater for the vaginally orgasmic women. Translated: you gotta shake it to break it.
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