Instead of yelling throughout this posting, we'll digress from the all-caps part of the story to pose a question: Who decided that we would celebrate the "Caps-Lock" key in the first place? The folks at engadget -- whose lower-case name suggests a bias in favor of e.e. cummings -- claim: "Invented by greeting card companies to fill the void between Trafalgar Day and Mole Day, 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.'"
ALRIGHT, BACK TO THE PSEUDO-YELLING. THERE'S ACTUALLY A DISPUTE BETWEEN THOSE WHO CELEBRATE THE KEY ON OCT. 22 AND THOSE WHO CELEBRATE IT ON AUG. 19.
FOR NON-CELEBRANTS, HERE'S A PAGE DEVOTED TO DISABLING THAT PART OF THE KEYBOARD.
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