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• Nandan Nilekani to help Bihar improve e-governance

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  Patna, Nov 14 (IANS) Bihar has sought the help of Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani, the chief of India’s Unique Identification Database Authority, to improve the state’s e-governance system.Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar disclosed at a function here Friday evening that Nilekani will visit Patna Nov 17 and ...
  2 days ago

• Retro Chic: 13 Gorgeous Vintage Typewriters

  
  GeekSugar — Authority: 677
  I love vintage geek gadgets almost as much as I love my brand new tech goodies. From typewriters to Polaroid cameras , these retro goodies are as stunning as they once were useful. My laptop is great and I appreciate it completely, but there is something so dreamy and romantic about typing on an old-fashioned ...
  1 week ago

• NaNo Update

  
  Collapsing World — Authority: 103
  Here it is day four of NaNoWriMo, and my word count stands at 5,320. That’s an estimate, told to me by the NaNo Statistical Spreadsheet for Typists that I worked up. Those of us who type generally make a best guess at our actual wordcount. There are various ways of  going about it, but I go by the rule of thumb ...
  1 week ago

• What Are You Doing with That Duck?

  
  CMC — Authority: 151
  Last week one of the folks, Matthew Fairtlough , I have been working and collaborating with on something really cool, that involves as well the talented and natural storyteller Jemima Gibbons , and which I am sure I would be able to talk about very very soon, since it is just starting to come to life , shared ...
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• What Are You Doing with That Duck?

  
  E L S U A ~ A KM Blog Thinking Outside The Inbox by Luis Suarez — Authority: 412
  Last week one of the folks, Matthew Fairtlough , I have been working and collaborating with on something really cool, that involves as well the talented and natural storyteller Jemima Gibbons , and which I am sure I would be able to talk about very very soon, since it is just starting to come to life , shared ...
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• Now that’s a novel idea!

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 157
  Posting will be a little light this month as I’ll be participating in this year’s National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. Every November tens of thousands of would-be novelists from across the world hunker down in front of their computers, their typewriters, their notebooks and napkins, and write a 50 thousand ...
  2 weeks ago

• Subscribing to print magazines is a political act

  
  Strikethru — Authority: 109
  Ryan (Ryan, what happened to your Twitter account?) mentioned that there was an article in a recent Poets & Writers magazine about typewriters. Well, here it is. Id like to add that there is a lot of good stuff in Poets & Writers magazine, and darn it, I am going to subscribe. Subscribing to print magazines ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hermès Typewriters

  
  RDuJour — Authority: 145
  I have always wanted a typewriter and when I finally commit to purchasing one I think it’s going to be an Hermès , either 3000 or Baby/Rocket model from the 1950s/60s.  Above are the 3000 model the green from 1958, the year it was first introduced, and the blue from the late 1960s. Continue reading to see ...
  3 weeks ago

• review: A Better Pencil by Dennis Baron

  
  Technology Liberation Front — Authority: 589
  I very much enjoyed Dennis Baron’s new book, A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution , and highly recommend you pick it up. Baron does a wonderful job exploring the history of techno-pessimism and the endless battles about the impact of new technologies on life and learning, something I ...
  3 weeks ago

• Tracking down historic typewriters

  
  Millard Fillmore's Bathtub — Authority: 499
  By the way, Richard Polt at Xavier University lays it all over this blog in his listings of typewriters used by good authors and famous people .  If you’re looking for more information on the history of typewriters, or if you’re looking for information about an old typewriter you own, Polt’s site is a great ...
  3 weeks ago

• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

  
  Tomus Arcanum — Authority: 128
  An excerpt from: Dr. Adams Painless Guide to Computing by Dr Pamela Adams If Carpal Tunnel Syndrome comes from typing on the computer all day, why didnt people who typed on typewriters get Carpal Tunnel Syndrome? Because there was no computer screen to draw their heads forward, their chins tilted up, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Can You Hear Me Now?

  
  Collapsing World — Authority: 103
  Typewriter: 1916 Oliver #9
  4 weeks ago

• Typewriter of the moment: Alan Lomax, folk music historian, 1942

  
  Millard Fillmore's Bathtub — Authority: 499
  Alan Lomax at the typewriter, 1942, using the "hunt and peck method" of typing - Library of Congress photo Who was Alan Lomax?  Have you really never heard of him before? Lomax collected folk music, on wire recorders, on tape recorders, in written form, and any other way he could, on farms, at festivals, in jails, ...
  4 weeks ago

• A few more...

  
  journal — Authority: 534
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• Typewriter finds

  
  journal — Authority: 534
  I havent indulged in an ebay typewriter searching in a long while. Here are some of the things that turned up...
  4 weeks ago

• Ron "the typewriter" Mingo

  
  journal — Authority: 534
  
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• The stealth carrying case

  
  Collapsing World — Authority: 103
  I had a problem: the typewriter that I want to use for NaNoWriMo has no carrying case. Well, it has a bottom, but the top is long gone. It also doesn’t fit into any of my other typewriters’ carrying cases. What to do? It failed to fit into any of the laptop bags at my disposal ( Dell Latitude and Toshiba T1100 ...
  4 weeks ago

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