I previously posted about the latest rash of scandalous photos coming out of Afghanistan showing U.S. military atrocities under Obama’s command, and wondering if the media would pick up on it the way they did when it was Bush’s army… Well, here’s a twist I wasn’t expecting: yes, one of the U.S. media, Rolling Stone, [...]
Jeffrey Goldberg, a correspondent for the Atlantic, cast a spotlight on yet another disgustingly overt example of pure bias in the mainstream media, particularly at the anti-Semitic Reuters newswire. He points to a Reuters news item which contains the following despicable sentences: Police said it was a “terrorist attack” — Israel’s term for a Palestinian [...]
In the [sparse] reporting of the Palestinians’ massacre of the Fogel family, several newspapers stand out with their distorted sense of “balance”, i.e., where they feel overwhelmingly uncomfortable describing the barbarity of the Palestinians without at least taking a swipe or two at the Israelis, no matter how patently irrelevant or disgustingly disrespectful it comes [...]
New Keyboard Technology
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Devices like keyboards and mice rarely undergo noticeable technological advances, but when they do it’s usually something major (think scroll wheel for the mouse; I can’t ever go back to a mouse without one!).
Microsoft is now announcing a major innovation for the oft-ignored and rarely-advanced keyboard: pressure sensitivity! Granted, the demonstrations in the video you’re about to see are pretty rudimentary, but if you think about what you’re seeing, the applications for something like this are incredibly useful and virtually limitless and, like the scroll wheel on the mouse, I think that if this comes with only a trivial price increase (like the scroll wheel), this will catch on fast and universally.