As one description of this YouTube video suggests, those of us under 40 may not remember a world where book reports, term papers, and essays were written on typewriters. But I do. My Bar Mitzvah gift was a typewriter, a Smith Corona with a removable ribbon. At that time, removable ribbons were a great innovation. […]
This video might make an interesting final examination question. H/T to IO9.com. Vid from CollegeHumor.com.
In connection with this week’s bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, U.S. News and World Report has a great article on Lincoln’s interest in technology such as the telegraph. Suggests the article, were Lincoln alive today, “he would fight just as hard to keep his BlackBerry as President Barack Obama did.” Also turns out that Lincoln […]
The next-best thing to getting Guitar Hero III for the holidays (no, we didn’t get it): blending it!
