I love the idea of LED bulbs (much more so than CFLs, since those die quickly in our 25-year-old house), but they've currently got the same problem that CFLs do: they won't work with a dimmer. Yes, I know that some CFLs are dimmer-compatible now, but they're hard to find.

I'm nothing resembling an electrician or electrical engineer, but I have a conceptual idea of how you would make it work. Add a microcontroller that reads the incoming voltage. As the voltage steps down, turn off individual LEDs in the array in a fixed sequence. Half voltage == half of the LEDs are off, for instance.

Is the science sound on this? And would it add more than, say, $2/bulb?

b) Stop the users typing so fast.

Typing too fast caused people to die, in one case:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

Specifically, go down to near the bottom of the entry where it mentions that: [t]he equipment control task did not properly synchronize with the operator interface task, so that race conditions occurred if the operator changed the setup too quickly. This was missed during testing, since it took some practice before operators were able to work quickly enough for the problem to occur.

This is why I was hoping to the gods that Hillary didn't end up on the ticket, much less winning. Everything else about her aside, I would not have wanted our first female president to have inherited this mess, ended up a one-termer (for I do believe that no matter who wins, he's likely to be a one-termer), and have folks pointing fingers in 2012 saying "this is what we get for electing a woman to the presidency" and making it impossible for a woman to be elected for another 50-100 years.