“”↑The Dvorak Zine” is a 24 page zine that uses the power of Comics to promote the ↑Dvorak Simplified Keyboard Layout.” Furthermore it tells the history of the invention of the typewriter, the keyboard in particular, and its development.
Just a follow-up to ↵laid back
Hardware is important for cybercultural lifestyles. Modifying, combining, arranging, and rearranging hardware even more so. The ↑coolest workspace contest at lifehacker is ample testimony of that. The above pictured prototype of an “evolutionary workstation” by ↑ErgoMotions is an attempt to cyberpunkify ergonomic solutions. But all of that is nothing against ↑Tim the Lion with his ↑DataHands—he has created the most laid back, cool, and ↑ergonomically correct computer workplace:
Please watch and listen to what Israeli high profile technology entrepreneur ↑Yossi Vardi has to say on the issue of ↑local warming.
There was a time when split keyboards were the metaphor for futuristic desktop computer hardware—at least for movies and television series, where they appeared. When I first saw a split keyboard I fell for it—↵because of ↵the æsthetics, ↵as always. Besides the looks there is a rationale behind exotic artefacts like the above pictured ↑L89P [↵Jake, I’d like to see a steampunk version of that beast] by ↑Maltron Keyboards, which is not only split, but heavily contoured as well. It has been ergonomically designed “to relieve the symptoms of RSI (↑Repetitive Strain Injury)”. Besides Maltron, to my knowledge only ↑Kinesis has driven the curved contours to extremes:
Because his ↵steampunk keyboard mod “looked terribly anachronistic” in front of his flat panel display, Jake von Slatt, proprietor of ↑The Steampunk Workshop voided the warranty of his ↑monitor and modified it, too, because “art must be served.”
↑Fabian Klenk has put his Magister Artium thesis online at ↑his site [scroll down for download link] and ↑at mana’o [1.38MB | .pdf].
“When we look at people’s cultures from the inside, it is seen that they—ritual and technology—cannot be separated.” (Condominas 1986: 28)
Well, quite some time has passed since I ↵took the comments function offline—due to numerous requests I brought the function back online again, and included some more wizardry from ↑abe. Let’s see how it works. All the comments you posted before are available again, too.
UPDATE: That was a bit premature, as the comments only seem to be half back. The old ones are there, but new ones are not accepted. Am trying to fix that.
UPDATE 2: Wtf?—lol! Interesting effect: I can’t post comments into my own blog, but spambots can. Atm I have no idea what is going on. Will start over from scratch now; if that does not help, I’ll skip it and implement comments again at a later date, when there is more time.
UPDATE 3: For a second there it was—then it went away again. Now it seems that I have succesfully blocked everybody and everything from submitting comments. I’ll leave it “as is” for the moment till later. Let’s see what happens over night. I have a faint suspicion, though …