gadgets.boingboing.net - 1/20/2009
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scrabble1.jpg During the waning moments of the worst parties, someone always pulls out Scrabble (a game I hate) and tries to win me over from my face-curdled loathing by insisting I must be good at it, since I'm a writer. My response to this assertion is always just to stare, gobstruck, until ...
gadgets.boingboing.net - 1/13/2009
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klingon_keyboard.jpg Cherry sells this keyboard with Klingon keycaps,
perfect for transcribing the works of Shakespeare in their...
original language. Like the most robust battle keyboards, it attaches to your console via the hardened PS/2 interface. ...
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Today is a good day to type...with a Klingon keyboard ...
i.gizmodo.com - 1/18/2009
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This wood and brushed aluminum keyboard features real
Scrabble tiles with the points score slightly modded to...
show each key's secondary function. It's classy, it's nerdy, and it's worth a ton of points. I'm a huge Scrabble geek, so it's great to see ...
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Homemade Scrabble Keyboard: Double Nerd Score [Scrabble]
slipperybrick.com - 1/19/2009
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slipperybrick.com —
Someone loves Scrabble a whole bunch and by
creating this awesomely nerdy keyboard, they must have scored...
themselves a quadruple word score. It’s a wood and brushed aluminum keyboard that features real Scrabble tiles. The points score is slightly ...
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Homemade Scrabble keyboard
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Doc Datamancer's Scrabble Keyboard Gets Triple Word Score
Wired: Gadget Lab —
... [emphasis added] As somebody who has spent time with Brownlee in his Berlin bachelor pad, this is thick with irony. He actually owns a Scrabble set which he keeps at his desk. And while he doesn't shake the letters "in his head", he invites his neglected parakeet to peck at the tiles, thus outlining post after post. It's a testament to the bird's uncanny language skills that we understand the man at all.
Product page [Doc Datamancer via Humbert Humbird]
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