Ergodex: I wish I had thought of this!

So, I'm having a little Saturday morning breakfast at home today and doing a little channel surfing at the same time. I land on FLN's "I Want That" and this guy named Scott Rix is talking about his new invention, the Ergodex keyboard. This is the coolest thing I have seen in a long time. And when I say cool, I don't just mean in the "I've never seen anything like that" sense (which is definitely part of it), but I also mean cool in the sense that it has immense real world applicability. It's a customizable keyboard that allows you to place individual keys on a sensing pad in whatever arrangement you like. Bye-bye qwerty keyboard. This guy has an opportunity to revolutionize the computing world. Seriously. You gotta see this. I know I want one. With all the different keyboard combinations for commands in Pro Tools, this thing would be one of the best investments I could make.

Russian professor predicts the dissolution of the US.

And, oh yeah, he's a former KGB official. Isn't that weird?! Anyway, the WSJ ran this interesting little piece on Igor Panarin's ominous forecast for the future of the US. An intriguing read, but predictions of future history are nothing new. Besides, his allegiance to the hammer and sickle brotherhood makes it difficult not to question his credibility.