In the gMail spam folder, one can either:

1. Click to select all visible messages, then click delete.
2. Click "delete all Spam", then click "OK" when the full-window confirmation message jumps up.

Same number of clicks, in either case - assuming fewer than 50 messages, otherwise, the first method only deletes the first 50. No real difference in mouse movement or clicking technique required.

And yet, I much prefer the first method. The first method simply does what I want. The second method's full-window confirmation thing feels so panicky and intrusive. CONFIRM THIS! ARE YOU SURE! EEEK! AAHH! And it just turns me off, knowing I'll have to repeat myself.

Delete All. Are you sure? YES, DELETE ALL!

I know going into it that it's going to question me.

Select All, Delete. That feels much better. It just does what I want.

But, same amount of work (two clicks), in either case.

Anybody else feel this way?

Cell Phone Survivalist

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Congressional Republican Darryl Issa is trying to make me think nice things about him by proposing a Digital Bill Of Rights:

1. Freedom - digital citizens have a right to a free, uncensored internet
2. Openness - digital citizens have a right to an open, unobstructed internet
3. Equality - all digital citizens are created equal on the internet
4. Participation - digital citizens have a right to peaceably participate where and how they choose on the internet
5. Creativity - digital citizens have a right to create, grow and collaborate on the internet, and be held accountable for what they create
6. Sharing - digital citizens have a right to freely share their ideas, lawful discoveries and opinions on the internet
7. Accessibility - digital citizens have a right to access the internet equally, regardless of who they are or where they are
8. Association - digital citizens have a right to freely associate on the internet
9. Privacy - digital citizens have a right to privacy on the internet
10. Property - digital citizens have a right to benefit from what they create, and be secure in their intellectual property on the internet

Damn you, Darryl Issa!

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A hitchhiker researching a book on "The Kindness of America" is currently recovering in hospital after a gun-toting truck driver game him a small donation of some searing hot lead.

Ray Dolin, was hitching on Highway 2 in Montana on Saturday as part of a project to produce a memoir on the great things about the open road in the big country.

Dolin was sitting on his backpack, just west of of the town of Glasgow early Saturday evening when a pickup truck slowed down.

However, rather than extending the offer of a ride, the driver extended a gun out of the window and shot Dolin in the arm.