I’m surprised I missed this, as it dates back to January: TechReport’s comprehensive review of the das Keyboard Professional.

I’m an extremely pleased owner of one of these myself. I had originally intended to purchase the Ultimate model, which – like its predecessor – has no markings on the key caps. It was only when the Professional arrived in the mail that I realized the error. In the end, it didn’t make a difference.

If you’re looking for a keyboard, this is pretty much the best you can buy.

Thanks to John Gruber for pointing out this gem. The last paragraph made me smile.

The Afghan parliament recently passed a law that appears to legalize rape within Shiite marriages. Aghan President Hamid Karzai, responding to the hail of criticism that has followed:

If there is anything that is of concern to us, then we will definitely take action in consultation with our [religious clerics] and send it back to the parliament. You be assured of that. This is something that we’re also serious about and should not allow.

Were it not for religion, we may have matured past the issues of abortion, same-sex marriage, and evolution. Americans have long since moved past this former “right to choose” from a legal perspective, but religious dogma continues to hold us back in many other ways.

Antonio Cangiano on Why MacRuby Matters:

MacRuby literally dominates Ruby 1.9.1. On “average”, according to these limited tests the experimental branch of MacRuby appears to be roughly 3 times faster than Ruby 1.9.1 (YARV), and in some cases even faster than that. You should definitely find this impressive.

Apple’s sponsorship of the MacRuby project is – at least on the surface – very much like Google’s unladen-swallow Python branch.

This is a really big deal.

Update: “Sponsorship” may have been the wrong word to use, here. MacRuby is Apple’s project. They don’t just “sponsor” it.

World Wildlife Fund CEO Carter Roberts in CNN.com’s article on Earth Hour:

The world is watching to see what America is going to do, because if America acts on climate change, the world will follow.

This is true of far more than climate change.