Oh, I hate that key!
Now mostly it's the position, tight up against the shift key... if it were up on the F key row, oh, there are keys I never ever use, like PrtSc.... And I never hit it by accident. Or the equally pointless Windows key. I never hit that one either.
As for those who say they need it, well, fine, okay, but you guys are in the minority.
Its days are numbered, even outside of google's evil empire.

As I understand it from his site, he uses a mechanical pencil sharpener much of the time.

I learned to sharpen pencils from my great-uncle, a man who was perhaps the epitome of a steam-punk hero, he lived in a house with no electricity, he grew his own foods, kept chickens and a cow, repaired his grandfather clock with an escapement wheel he cut with scissors out of the bottom of a bean-can, and spent his working days as a draughtsman, drawing details of the wing-roots, and weapons fitments of supersonic aircraft.
He sharpened his pencils with an ancient, bone-handled clasp knife,which he kept scalpel-sharp, and refined the edge by honing it on a pad of "flour-paper".

That's artisanal pencil sharpening.

Real men sharpen their own.

In reply to the comment by Angelo:- The rivers Kwai-Yai and Kwai-Noi meet at a confluence just south of Kanchanaburi, at which the combined rivers become the Mae-Klong. The Mekong is in Viet-Nam.
The section shown in the picture is not a part of the famous bridge, but part of the Whampo viaduct beside the river.
My father was one who came back, but many of his friends died as slave-labourers in the jungles around the railway.
The real Bridge on the River Kwai was nothing like the famous one in the film, it was an iron bridge on concrete piers. However, prisoners built numerous other bridges out of timber further up the line.
The reason the british did not build the railway when they first surveyed it was because of the predicted cost, not in money, but in human lives. The report stated that too many workers would die.
When the Imperial Japanese Army decided to build it, they used, to a great extent, the published british survey, but did not see the deaths of prisoners and natives, nor even their own troops as any sort of obstacle.
This is why it's said "a life for every sleeper" What you americans call "Railroad ties" we call sleepers.

First rule for a manly man, is to think for yourself, and not listen to makers of "cool" lists.

Roll up on that Magpull Ronin, and and try look cool. Ha! wear earplugs so you don't hear the laughter.

My advice, if you want a custom bike, make it yourself. You get far more respect for being a maker than a drone.

Or just get yourself an old-school-cool bike, like a Vincent Black Lightning '52
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxKTzwaEa2o

Oh. And a Harley? Overweight, like most of its riders. Bwahahahaaaa.
Sorry, Harley Riders. Nice tassels....

I agree with Masada.
If your business model does not include fair pay for all staff, then you should be ashamed of yourself.
The U.S. has a deplorably poor record on employment law, in Europe we think of you as a third-world country when we hear that wait-staff are expected to hustle for tips in order to make their pay.

Tipping demeans both the tipper and the person tipping.

As for the coffee world. You're not a "barista". You serve coffee. Labelling yourself with a silly word doesn't give the job added value.

Nine.

As a person involved in building maintenance, what I see here is a lot of damage being done because they're too ignorant and selfish to think of the consequences of their actions. See how our hero slams his weight into the finely carved stonework of a fifteenth century church. How many repeat impacts before pieces break off?

The church is St Mary the great, Cambridge,by the way. http://www.gsm.cam.ac.uk/
If the idiots are students, then this video would be enough to end their university careers.

Yes, I'm impressed at their athletic skills, but the structures they're slamming into, jumping off, scrambling over, are not, in the main, designed to take the loads they're imparting without damage.
Yet they won't even know it, when the repair bills start coming in.

So far as I know, Flanders and Swann never wrote any song about particle physics.

However, they did write a song about a hippopotamus, the music being used in the Cern choir's song, and lyrics written by Danuta Orlowska of Cern.

The Hippopotamus song is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN0WPwFD9is&feature=related

1: The basement is unheated, damp, and home to the spiders and mice.
2: I can move my chair anywhere in the room, without tools.
3: My chair has a backrest, and armrest.
4: The carpet does not like being sawed.
5: I live on a boat.
6: How strange that no culture, anywhere in the world ever seems to have adopted this kind of "chair".
7: I'm sueing Neatorama for millions. There was live cabling, and water pipes, where I wanted my chair. As soon as I'm out of the hospital, I'll sue.

Cockchafer

Definitely a model, not full-size, Time Ball.

Time balls were most common in maritime cities and ports, the ball was held at the top of the pole, and at exactly one p.m., it would be dropped. All the ships within sight of the ball could thus set their chronometers exactly, vital for accurate navigation.

This example looks like a presentation piece.

"...when the teen arrived late to the gate"
If the other passengers were onboard and buckled, then why was the outsize passenger given such treatment? Surely they should have said "Okay, there's your seat, BUT you can't fit in it and you failed to tell us that you were wider than an airline seat, so you'll have to wait for another flight with enough spare seats".
The passenger who was bumped may indeed have been on standby, but having been told to board, she should not have then lost her seat to someone who actually bought a ticket AFTER she was buckled in and ready to fly.

A dead person on the tracks.

lovely image, but i'd just guess at a coloured x-ray.

as a comment on the link says "Umklappen klingt verdammen nach eingefärbten xrays"

If you want to hear a man who really sings in extremely low registers, you mightlike to listen to Albert Kuvezhyn, singing Joy Division's "Love Will Tear us Apart".

I posted it on my blog long ago. http://gritinthegears.blogspot.com/2007/02/love-will-tear-us-apart-again-by-yat.html