Home row advantage

I learned a lot of vocabulary just by going through typing lessons in fourth grade. Words such as “alfalfa”, “lads”, and “sass” were very common in the first few exercises, due to their exclusive use of the home row keys. I found most of these home-row words strange and esoteric, as if they were contrived solely for the purpose of …

Random website of the day: Win solitaire!

http://www.winningsolitaire.com/ If you ever played Solitaire on the archaic Windows 2000/XP operating systems, and won, congratulations! Like me, you probably enjoyed watching the card waterfall at the end. Now you can relive the nostalgia at WinningSolitaire.com. Click anywhere, and it will spawn a bouncing playing card. Click again, and it spawns more. Protip: This website is especially entertaining on touch …