When the story broke about Mr. Squiggles in the United Kingdom, one American from Jacksonville, Fla.

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Another clue is Inkwell, a handwriting recognition program that turns handwritten squiggles into text.

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Not far from Jericho, the River Jordan squiggles through the desert dividing the West Bank from Jordan.

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Another lets children draw spots or squiggles on a robotic chameleon using a custom-paint program on Silicon Graphics work-stations.

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All I wanted to do was stare at little squiggles on a screen and guess which logos they represented.

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Over time Jacob learned to sort flashcard squiggles as letters.

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You would need to upgrade Mr. Squiggles from a hamster to a pet Ox and sleep on him for 8 hours a day for a decade to simulate this negligible exposure.

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His series of squiggles sent the internet into a frenzy this week, as folks tried to comprehend the fact that it might end up on the dollar bill if Lew is confirmed as Treasury Secretary.

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