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		<title>Save Energy, Save Eyestrain &#8211; Try a Different Color Scheme</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cost of Ink or Why History Trumps Common Sense Open up Microsoft Word or most web sites and the type is laid out in black against a white background like most books or newspapers. Like most books or newspapers? Why? Dark ink on white pages made more sense than white ink on dyed pages when ink is costly. It is a lot cheaper to bleach paper white and then cover a tiny portion with a bit of black ink than to ink every page completely black and then use white out to add text. This is true despite the easier read being the losing color scheme. Economics wins, every time. Do we need to follow this tradition in the digital age? Electronic ink costs nothing. As a matter of fact, bright white screens must draw more electricity. So alternate color schemes are probably more environmental than the old standard. Save energy, save eyestrain. Go light on dark. Changing Color Schemes is Tricky Let&#8217;s assume that I have convinced you to change color schemes. How do you do it? If you have a screen magnifying software, such as ZoomText, this may be easy. Many such programs offers an &#8216;inverse&#8217; color [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blount Bluntly Dismisses the Blind on the NYTimes&#8217; Op-Ed Page</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On today&#8217;s Op-Ed page in the New York Times, Roy Blount, Jr, head of the Author&#8217;s Guild, has penned a piece, The Kindle Swindle?, defending his organizations attack on the new text to speech (TTS) feature in the new Amazon Kindle 2. Over at O&#8221;Reill Media, there is An Open Letter to Roy Blount, Jr. on the Occasion of Him Speaking Like a Dinosaur, which offers good counterarguments on the issue of TTS and audio rights. My purpose is to point out his ingorant dismissal of the blind. In his words: What the guild is asserting is that authors have a right to a fair share of the value that audio adds to Kindle 2’s version of books. For this, the guild is being assailed. On the National Federation of the Blind’s Web site, the guild is accused of arguing that it is illegal for blind people to use “readers, either human or machine, to access books that are not available in alternative formats like Braille or audio.” In fact, publishers, authors and American copyright laws have long provided for free audio availability to the blind and the guild is all for technologies that expand that availability. (The federation, though, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessible Guns (by Prescription Only)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am all for making all products more accessible. Sometimes, though, you have to laugh (or cry). Scanning Slashdot for the latest news in technology and science, I ran across this article on Prescription Handguns For the Elderly and Disabled: Repton writes &#8220;Thanks to the Second Amendment, even the elderly have the right to keep and bear arms. The problem is that many of the guns out there are a bit unwieldy for an older person to handle. However, the inventors of the Palm Pistol are planning to change all that with a weapon that is ideal for both the elderly and the physically disabled. In a statement submitted to Medgadget, the manufacturer, Constitution Arms, has revealed the following: &#8216;We thought you might be interested to learn that the FDA has completed its &#8220;Device/Not a Device&#8221; determination and concluded the handgun will be listed as a Class I Medical Device.&#8217; Physicians will be able to prescribe the Palm Pistol for qualified patients who may seek reimbursement through Medicare or private health insurance companies.&#8221; What is next, guns for people like me (i.e. guns for the blind)? Our society has a lot of resources to spend improving the lives of the [...]]]></description>
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