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A Handwriting Font

Sacha Chua has perpetrated a truly wonderful hack. She’s built a font based on her handwriting. She’s using it for blog post titles and a few other places on her website, so take a look there to see what it … Continue reading

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Handwriting Update

It’s been a while since we’ve visited the fronts in the cursive wars. Here in the United States the trend away from cursive is moving fitfully forward with occasional counterattacks from traditionalists and their talk of Armageddon. It’s harder here … Continue reading

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More On The Demise Of Handwriting

Earlier this month I wrote a post speculating on the end of handwriting. By “handwriting” I mean cursive handwriting. Although I’ve pretty much stopped using a pen or pencil entirely most people are still at least printing things by hand. … Continue reading

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The End Of Handwriting?

I’ve written before on how I have pretty much stopped writing anything with pencil/pen and paper. These days the only things I use a pen for are to sign credit card receipts and the very occasional check. For all that, … Continue reading

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Red Meat Friday: Cursive’s Last Stand

It’s been a while since I’ve ventured into the emotional minefield that is cursive handwriting. Here’s a couple of tweets from Paul Graham that make two very good points: They should start by at least not making kids learn the … Continue reading

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Ball Point Pens

What could you buy for the price of a ball point pen? No much. Not a newspaper, not a cup of coffee, and certainly not a hamburger. You can get one of the ubiquitous Bic pens for a little over … Continue reading

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A Paper-Like Emacs Writing Configuration

Manuel Uberti enjoys writing his journal entries with pen and paper. Lots of people do although I’m not one of them. The fact, as I’m sure I’ve mentioned before, that I have terrible handwriting no doubt has something to do … Continue reading

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High School Students and Basic Computer Skills

Chris Wellons over at Null Program has an interesting post on High School students and how they lack a couple of basic computer skills that hamper their advancement in the subject. Wellons mentors students so he’s seen these problems first … Continue reading

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The Decline of Penmanship

In response to Friday’s post on going paperless, Smitty notes that one of the consequences is the decline of penmanship. He’s not the first to notice. Here’s what The Oatmeal had to say about it. The Oatmeal is, as always, … Continue reading

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Is Cursive Virtuous?

Irreal has a large corpus on the problems with cursive handwriting (see here, here, here, here, here, here, and here) but I haven’t written about it for a while. I was going through my queue of unpublished blog ideas and … Continue reading

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