The Morse Interface   When ascii is not enough. Most of our computer work is creating or editing text files. But what if you can't see? That big 21" monitor won't do you much good then. What if you can't hear? The only thing that expensive speaker system is going to give you is the vibrations of the bass. The solution to disability problems is of course to go luddite. The old trustworthy morse language is still a viable alternative to ascii/vision based computing. Radio days of HTML. Installing a ham radio in your car just to be able to connect to your home computer through the aether, maybe even surf the net with lynx, with just the press of a morse key? How 'bout a morse based BBS system? They probably exist. Morse is fast. If you know it. A portable 286 running morse-DOS & a key connected to pin 2&7 on the com port cost next to nothing. Add a ham radio & you're ready to jack in to the net through the aether... Put the kit in a steel suitcase, hide it in the ventilation sys of a big office building, connect it to 110V and a T1. A tactile dream. The young deaf and blind kid is given a clay-like ball. Gradually she learns that she can use the device for communication and to store her thoughts. As she manipulates her gripp on the somewhat plastic globe it changes it's shape, pulsating with the language of morse. She learns to pick up speed, what earlier was a slow straining press-release operation now goes almost without movement, the neural networks on both sides of the globe has grown in complexity and elegance. The information is exchanged, not through one channel, but many, making the information access as fast as or faster than ordinary reading. Informative Masturbation. At home with the electic dildo - friday night turned out lonesome again. Never mind the lonesomeness: this home is connected to the net - we info junkies might like a bit of digital sex too. Repetitive motions combined with repetitive fonemics, making a strange language of infertile reproduction, yet creating something new... /joel