USB ports/plugs. There’s absolutely no reason they couldn’t have been made asymmetrical so you could spot the right way up to put the plug, but apparently they were designed by someone from the Microsoft Hero Worship House of Design, which values mechanical purity over actual ease of use, and wishes there were hexagonal flowers for the front garden because they could then be stored nicely together in keepsake volumes with no wasted space.
I mean, really. The level of Ignore the Customer and Just Draw Something Karl that design took makes me want to take away their drafting computer. “Ah, they can guess. How hard can it be? What, it might be behind the desk at night facing the wrong way with the stereo blocking it? Well, they should have planned ahead! We certainly do!”
Not at all. Those dots separate the words, so the index had the word ‘boards’ and the word ‘straightdope’ and so on, as I would expect. The ‘x’ in ‘640x480’ could, I suppose, be considered a word, but FF finds ‘x’ in the middle of words, like ‘indexing’ or the random strings you see in some urls. (See Google Books, for example.)
Sorry guys about that link. The website was a badly designed website about badly designed websites. Normally I wouldn’t link to a site buried that deep, but I couldn’t resist. I don’t appear to be infected, and Avira, which scored higher in recent antivirus tests, didn’t detect it.
