Cole's Notes - The Sunday Journalist

Straight Dope Staff Report: What's the "Scroll Lock" key on my computer for? Some basics info for Cole's Notes.

The orginal artcle

A friend of mine sent me this fascinating and clever tidbit: Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? Wow. There's a tremendous Web page that examines this statement in detail, with several enlightening demonstrations. It's from Dr. Matt Davis, a researcher at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cmabridge Uinervtisy... oh, you know what I mean. Well worth a few minutes. http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~matt.davis/Cmabrigde/

Questia - The Online Library of Books and Journals And this is the link to that great site - I wish I'd had this back when I was in school - but then again - I didn't even have a PC then. I did have a typewriter and carbon. It's strange how that feels like a century ago, when it's only a generation. (sigh)

Reprinted by Permission of Dow Jones WebReprint Service®, 1-800-843-0008 For those folks asking about on-line libraries - here's a good roundup of the ones available. For my money the Questia site is the best.

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imagiNATION cards Maries New web site - looking good and now she has her giftwares there as well. It's a complete re-vamp from my orginal site for her - but it looks really god.

No link today - just an interesting Sig I ran across on Slashdot " Do you mind, your karma has just run over my dogma. " - Annual Turkey day coming up on Sunday - then a week off - just the break I need. But I'll probably spend the time blogging and surfing the net.