Language Log presents an interesting discussion on the latest polarising and overused corporate buzz-word in double-click—as in to focus or drill-down on some matter, which admittedly didn’t at first blush 
register as a term I’ve heard employed inside or outside the office but then realise that I might just have a blindspot for such phrases—moreover leading to see how quickly technological neologisms are adopted and have staying power, like way English has a whole is peppered with rather fossilised sports metaphors that can have an othering effect for non-native-speakers. Offline (as in a sidebar discussion) and bandwidth (mental capacity) have become pervasive and we use this jargon without noticing it. The article also includes an interview with the inventor of the rapid tap mousing, engineer Bill Atkinson who conceived it for Apple’s Lisa Project back in 1979, who would eschew such talk—buzzwords quickly lose their buzz—and has some regrets about the gesture he designed, thinking that a shift key for computer mice might be more ergonomic and user-friendly.
synchronoptica
one year ago: military weather modification programmes (with synchronoptica), The Specials plus assorted links to revisit
seven years ago: May’s Little England, more model villages and company towns plus a capital ร
nine years ago: the collective amnesia of nationhood plus imagining parallel ecosystems
ten years ago: off to Croatia
eleven years ago: graffiti terminology, images of borders plus a spyware roundup
