Israel is far west of Singapore, not north

Neigh-on impossible. Obviously long haul flights tend to approximate great circles, however ETOPS considerations come into it, and jet streams move on a daily basis. I believe the SIN-EWR service doesn't follow the great circle (which puts it withing 143 miles of the north pole), but follows jet streams, flying over northern europe on the to-SIN leg, over alaska on the to-NY leg. The Atlantic tracks between Europe and the North East vary on a day-by-day basis for a similar reason.

QF63/64 JNB-SYD tracks north of the great circle, despite being operated by a 744 which can ignore ETOPS

Intra-euro flights follow air lanes. I know my semi-frequent MAN-BRU flight tends to fly via Epping rather than a direct route further north.

I think the person that gathered the data drew one line for an airport-airport connection, rather than look at the number of flights.

That means that LHR-JFK with it's 16+ flights a day gets the same thickness as JNB-SYD with 1 flight a day.

It makes sense to put Europe in the middle, as the split then happens across the pacific, where there's great distances between landmasses, and the split occurs on or around the dateline.

I expect America to put themselves in the middle

I'm surprised we don't see more maps like these though, which show what's near and what's far for a given country

http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=RSL&MS=wls&MP=a&MC=RSL&DU=mi
http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=FRA&MS=wls&MP=a&MC=FRA&DU=mi
http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=SIN&MS=wls&MP=a&MC=SIN&DU=mi

I find kids are always on my lawn. I yell at them, but they ignore me

How strange, an a nice reversal for a change :D

This film has been out on general release for 8 days already!

I'm the guy that's never smoked, never will, and I find the very idea disgusting. However I'm all for it to be legalised (at home, in public -- like on the street or in parks, it should be banned along with tobacco)

I have problems sleeping too. It's called an 11 month old who's teething.

It can't call the kettle black.

Not a problem, I assume you've mapped caps lock to something useful. I have it as escape personally

keycode 66 = Escape NoSymbol Escape
!lock Caps_Lock (0x42)
clear lock

It's better when you work internationally. Our standard desktop admin password contains an @ sign. Which in most counties is shift-', but in the u.s. it's shift-2. It's not obvious which keyboard layout is in place (you also have to type user@domain, rather than domain\user, as \ doesn't exist as any key on the physical keyboard-mapping we have)

Password theory tells me that
  Pa55word!

Is an awesome password. 9 characters, capital, lower case, numbers and symbols.

It also tells me that
thisismyverylongandeasytorememberpassword

is rubbish, (or to be exact, "really good, if you put in a random symbol numbers and capitalise some letters")

Your link states
The philosophy of a design should be to minimize the amount of time a user has to learn the interface and try to be as similar as possible to other interfaces the user has used previously to avoid getting mixed up from time to time.

OK, don't do anything new, copy other interfaces. Great

It then goes on to say:

Almost all websites are like this.

So what it's saying in the second statement is that the standard - new items first - is ubiquitous. The first statement it states this is good. I fail to see the problem.

Malware? What decade are you from?

Send an email with a link to tw1tter.com, they enter their password, you capture it. Job done. All that's needed is a browser.

Did you tell them to get off your lawn?

I whistle and get a bowl of bolognaise.

Tipped over my head.