Tuesday, October 23, 2007

International CAPS LOCK day!

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Did you know that yesterday was THE INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY! This little-known day is a tradition risen from the alleged overuse of capital letters in online conversation. The Caps Lock key has generated much passion, with caps fans defending their right to freedom of sentence construction, and some caps haters going so far as to call for the death of the Caps Lock key. "The Caps key is an abomination, Pieter Hintjens, a software developer and head of CAPSoff.org, wrote on his blog last year. "It's a huge key, stuck right there where the Ctrl used to be, and as far as I know, it's only used by 419 scammers and Fortran programmers."
As ENGADGET puts it: "Caps Lock Day is the one occasion when lovers of capitalization can come together with the haters from CAPSoff and hack-a-day and pay homage to the little key that habitually blows up your spot when trying to type a lower-case 'a.'"

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