Attributed to Lyall Watson:

"If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't."

The Gamasutra article (the article with actual content, not wild speculation) is based on BREW -- a Qualcomm proprietary runtime with no Linux involved.

Q: Why don't jokes work in octal?
A: Because 7, 10, 11

You make very good points about alternating between hands. The strength of the Dvorak keyboard is that a high percentage of English words are typed in an alternating pattern. In QWERTY there are a lot of words that require typing two consecutive letters with the same finger. In Dvorak, there are quite a few words which can be "rolled". In fact, my most common typing mistakes in Dvorak are hitting the keys in the wrong order because I can basically "press" the word, and it's a matter of the keystrokes landing in the right order. QWERTY typing has a much rougher rhythm to it.

No, they've already spent all the tax dollars you pay them, long ago. Any new program like this is just printing new money at the cost of diluting old.

I'm glad I'm not the only one using LC numbers. But do you have stickers on all the spines to make sorting easier?

(My excuse is that my wife is a librarian.)

:noh

At least they have the best online music store in the world. That's got to count for something.

Does the wifi proof paint come with free cancer treatment?

I've only read a few Star Wars books, but I remember the ones I read saying that after the fall of the Empire, the warlords governing the remaining pieces of the empire started recruiting real people to work as Stormtroopers because they didn't have access to the clone factories anymore.

But I'm not exactly a Star Wars scholar.