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Linked List: July 12, 2006

Wednesday, 12 July 2006

Pulling a Double Shift ★: Wolf Rentzsch discovers that when you hold down both Shift keys, a bunch of other keys go dead on your keyboard. I think it’s a USB thing, though — on my PowerBook G4, I see the same thing he describes using the built-in keyboard, but I don’t see it when using my Extended Keyboard II (with a Griffin iMate ADB-to-USB adaptor).
Hotwired Nostalgia From Jeff Veen ★: Screenshots of one of the first great web sites. Ah, imagemaps. (Via Andy Baio.)
Joanne Colan Takes Over as ‘Interim’ Host of Rocketboom ★: My guess is that this will be about as “interim” as Jobs’s stint as Apple CEO.
Non-Errors in English Usage ★: “Those usages people keep telling you are wrong but which are actually standard in English.” (Via Coudal, which is weird, given that they’re a bunch of illiterates.)
Atari Pole Position Commercial ★: “It’ll bust your crank… and leave skid marks on your soul.” (Via Jason Santa Maria.)
Insert Key Safely Disarmed in Microsoft Word 2007 ★: Hitting the Insert key no longer triggers Overtype mode in Word 2007. That feature hit the daily double of bad UI design: it was both dangerous and confusing. (Via Wolf Rentzsch.)
Exporting mbox Files From Apple Mail macosxhints.com - 10.4: Export Mail to mbox with Save As… ★: With regard to Mail’s role in the recent switching-to-Ubuntu saga: using Mail’s Save As command and the “Raw Message Source” output option, you can export mbox-formated mailbox files.
Cabel Sasser on the Cancelled Portland Apple Store ★: Includes a picture of what the proposed store would have looked like and a photo of the current site.