Year: 2006

Seth Godin has some interesting commentary regarding recent anti-terrorism related activities in UK.

When you need an additional 90 minutes, can’t bring your laptop (or even a book on some routes) and can’t have a bottle of water, the calculus for most trips is fundamentally changed.

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The prevalance of online video, constant skype connections and the multiple threads of data we get online, combined with the enormous overhead that flying now brings might just change the story for a long time to come.

If you ever wanted to tell McDonald’s corporation what you think of them, this is your chance. As a free bonus to your speech, you get to sign a petition and make a funny image with an easy to use tool. The website I am talking about is Ronald McHummer – Just Say No to Hummers

This month McDonald’s is giving away toy Hummers — 42 million of them, in eight models and colors — with every Happy Meal or Mighty Kids Meal. That’s right: The fast-food chain that helped make our kids the fattest on Earth is now selling future car buyers on the fun of driving a supersized, smog-spewing, gas-guzzling SUV originally built for the military. Use the Ronald McHummer Sign-O-Maticâ„¢ to tell us what you think of this misguided marriage of two icons of American excess.

Via Joe Grossberg.

Being an almost true pacifist, I don’t support that many wars. The war on Caps Lock key though is one that I am easily joining.

How am I going to explain to my kids why some of the most valuable keyboard real estate is squatted by a large, useless key that above all you must not press!

Caps Lock is indeed one of the most useless keys on the keyboard. TYPING IN ALL CAPS LOCK IS A REALLY REALLY BAD TONE. It’s hard to read – you see, lowercase letters have different hight (“t” and “d” are high, “p” and “j” are low), which makes it much easier on your eyes to read, while in uppercase all letters have the same hight.

For those times when you need to type in an uppercase letter – say someone’s name, or at the beginning of the sentence – you can use Shift key.

Homework for you guys: study your keyboard carefully, and report which other keys you don’t use at all, or you so rarely that you won’t mind not having a dedicated keyboard position for it.