they just happen to have this insane amount of cash. I much prefer their way of spending the cash to the microsoft way : buying patents & sueing people.

The filosophy of all the semeingly nutty google projects is pretty simple : start 10 projects in the hope that one of them becomes wildly successfull. The other 9 are just duds

I read the article, and I don't get it.

Bluephone calls use the GSM network. When they transfer a call to use the Bluetooth link, they just transfer the first few yards of that call.

So your phone is communicating with a Bluetooth base station in your house. How is the base station communicating with the world? The Slashdot blurb says, "It doesn't roam calls onto the Internet, or even onto the landline, where they would be cheaper." What does that leave?

Is the Bluetooth base station communicating with a GSM tower over the air the same way phones do? If so, what are you gaining? Aren't you using the same amount of GSM bandwidth as before, plus some Bluetooth bandwidth?

Double spaces after full stops? Do you mean hitting the spacebar twice after each period that ends a sentence (where it's correct English behavior but incorrect French)?

I started using double spaces after full stops because emacs's auto-fill-mode just wouldn't handle line breaking correctly without them. After using them for a while I found that I prefer them when reading text using a fixed-width font. It separates the beginnings of sentences more clearly.

(On a side note, does anybody know how to make emacs's auto-fill-mode saner, like the one in pico?)

My natural inclination has become typing things like "The quick brown fox died a gruesome death.", with the puntuation as you see it in this sentence.

I agree, and use the same convension whether it be right or wrong (I live in Finland, and am not really sure about it here). As an example of this I had a really hard time figuring out what you were referring to by the wrong punctuation...

While this is a good measurement of progress for our current interface and will be useful to measure the average worker. I expect it to be hopelessly interface dependent. There is more than one good and useful GUI or TUI (is there another name for a text only UI?)