Test Common editor Bruce Daley commented on my "Man and Machine" article and then interviewed me about it last week. The interview is here: An Interview with Jonathan Kohl. We talked about automated testing issues, and giving testers power with...

The Web and HTML have robbed us of double spaced sentences and indented paragraphs.

According to the Modern Language Association*, writing should be double spaced and paragraphs should be indented.**

More and more written content has moved to the web. By now, it is the most important medium for disseminating information to a mass audience. When writing text that will be rendered in web browsers (HTML), whitespace at the end of each sentence is condensed into single spaces.*** So even if you type two spaces at the end of each sentence, you get a single space when the text shows up in your browser.

I know little of Sir Geoffrey Vickers, but I read a quote recently that made me want to find out more. In Play as Exploratory Learning, by Mary Reilly, he is quoted as saying,

In these days when the rich in knowledge eat such specialized food at such separate tables, only the dogs have a chance of a balanced diet.