Digital Wanderer

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Keyboard

As always, there are plenty of ideas, but implementing them takes too long, costs too much, and there’s no one to do it.
via a_kuzin
An excellent keyboard was conceived by the studio of Artemy Lebedev, the best-known and most hated designer on the Russian internet. Of course, science fiction writers came up with something similar long before he did.
And just recently I read Neal Stephenson’s "The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer," where every surface of every everyday object is a screen. There is no doubt that this is how it will be; it’s just a shame that those screens will show nothing but advertising around the clock.

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Why I don't have a license: part 5

The fifth time, I drove so very close to a parked car that its alarm went off, and the instructor reached for the steering wheel to stop me from scratching his property. 10 points.

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Why I don't have a driver's license: part 4

I'm pretty sick of it already, but I'll finish the story anyway.
Considering that I failed the driving exam a total of seven times, and I'm only telling you about the fourth . . .
Conclusion - I need to keep the story shorter.

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