Inspired by hictio's thread about changing the X cursor shape in emacs, I'm going to ask a question that's been bugging me for a while: is there a non-painful way to make it so that X will always use ...

I gasped when I first saw the iPad's new cursor—a little circle, a shape-shifting blob. Because for decades, cursors have been as cursors are. The prototype to the computer mouse as we know it today ...