Yet another way to practise Braille!

In yesterday's issue of "LDS Daily News" was the following item:

CHURCH PROVIDES ONLINE BRAILLE RESOURCES

See http://www.lds.org/braille/0,18908,5388-1,00.html Link

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - The Gospel Library section of lds.org now provides many Church publications as Braille files. The files, which require Braille reading software, include monthly First Presidency and Visiting Teaching Messages and current curriculum manuals. New content will be added regularly. To access these resources, users can select "Gospel Library" from the lds.org home page and then select "Braille" on the left side of the page.

The text is in BRF (Braille Formatted File) format, the native format of the EDGAR freeware Braille editor which I use.

What's an ATM for? Playing chess, of course

Or, how you can hit the minimise icon on the touchscreen and get to the underlying OS.

http://www.ulm.ccc.de/projekte/bankomat/index.html

(From risks_digest / The Risks Digest Volume 23, Issue 62)

Skunkworks At Apple -- The Graphing Calculator Story

Seen on Slashdot: The Graphing Calculator Story.

A fascinating account of a programmer who wouldn't take no for an answer, and went on working on a project long after it was cancelled, sneaking into his former employer's offices to do so—and an account of the help he received from inside the company and how his product was eventually shipped as an official part of the operating system release.