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This. Knowing the person who wrote it, he was just surprised when he started shifting his use of the tool and wanted to share his experiences. Many of our readers love Evernote. At the same time, others avoid it for precisely the reasons he laid out at the beginning of the piece. He wanted to highlight features that may make them reconsider if they've thought about it but dismissed it.

Well, if there's something to be learned from discussing hat software's features, or something we can teach others to do to streamline their activities or be more productive, there's something to be gained from talking about it, isn't there? If something works well for one of us, we try to share it so others can take the example if it applies to them.

To be fair, we try to be significantly more useful than eHow.

Agreed.

It's difficult to address the problem of underinformed and uninformed voting, which is indeed an issue, or even address the issue of people who care little about the political system and their voice in it, and therefore don't vote because they feel uninformed. It's also difficult to turn uninformed people into informed voters who are active in their communities.

It's easy to say "fuck you" and tell people to stay home from the polls.

It looks like the author of the piece prefers the easy road.

I'm going to have to back you up here. I've had my own work published to their site without attribution - although it was a long long time ago - and odds are, it's this same process that got them on hot water again. I'm empathetic, but I'm certain they're playing a little dumb as to what's going on here.

I think it's because those are the criteria that our readers - who nominated the keyboards that made the top five - prefer over mechanical keys. Their preferred feature set just differs from yours, and from most developers, I think.

That said, there were plenty of mechs in the nominees, they just didn't get enough votes to make the top five. Personally, I love them, but majority rules.

If you look closely, you'll notice they're the best as voted on by our community. It looks like their tastes and yours differ somewhat.

I agree - I would have loved more mechs on the list. They just don't seem to have caught on with the general public just yet though. We had a half-dozen in the nominations list, but all told they got fewer votes collected than some of the others that made the top five.

I would have loved to include the Happy Hacking Keyboard on the list. It's one of my faves - but that said, the list is based on nominations and votes. It may be a joke, but it's a joke based on hundreds of nominations from readers, so there's that.

The list is based on reader nominations - unfortunately, our community has different tastes than you do, but next time, stop by and nominate your favorite - the cut for the top five was pretty close.

To be fair, the article is based on reader nominations. If you don't like the ones that made it into the list, stop by for the nomination round and make your choices known!

After my initial outrage at the title, I found this comment to the actual article perhaps more telling than the article itself:

"Geographically, this is southern Oregon, near Medford; not the North Cascades. That part of the state simply dosen't recieve the amount of rain annually that Oregon is "known for". Eight acre feet of snow melt and rain waterannualy to fill those ponds, that's impossable. He's not filling from his well or tapping localized springs on his property, this guy divertied water flowing thought his property which feeds a tributary creek that supplies the city of Medford with it's potable water. Geeze can the truth be told once and a while? He admidted to doing just that some years ago. He's free to "store" all the rain water he pleases; which will likely evoporate by mid June."

Aside from the defensive tone, it looks like it's not that he's just innocently collecting water falling from the sky here, he's actually diverted natural resources that happen to flow through his property to suit his own needs because he wants ponds. That's a really important point that was left out of the article (glossed over, at best.)

Agreed. The whole "experiment" reads like more like a politically-themed chain letter--the kind you'd get from a particularly eccentric aunt who found their way onto Facebook--than an actual exercise in sociology.