Seth Stevenson, in a Slate article about Rolex choosing Tiger Woods as their new spokesman, writes:

Privately held since its formation in 1905, Rolex is a notoriously tight-lipped company. It doesn’t release revenue figures, or explain leadership transitions. (It had a total of three CEOs from 1905 until 2008, when then-CEO Patrick Heiniger resigned under mysterious circumstances.) Even the corporate structure is a bit murky. Rolex founder Hans Wilsdorf died childless in 1960, leaving control of his company to a charitable foundation he’d established. The Hans Wilsdorf Foundation runs Rolex to this day. When I emailed a polite-but-elliptical media-relations woman to ask whether Rolex is essentially a nonprofit, and who the foundation’s major beneficiaries are, she responded with this sentence: “The principal focus of the foundation is to support a variety of philanthropic endeavors.”

Interesting. Sounds a little like Hershey’s, except we know where Hershey’s “philanthropic endeavors” are going.

Farhad Manjoo, in Slate, explains why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period:

Can I let you in on a secret? Typing two spaces after a period is totally, completely, utterly, and inarguably wrong.

Part of the problem is that most smartphones (BlackBerrys, Androids, and iPhones, at least) have an option to automatically insert a period and a space if you hit two spaces after a letter, thereby reinforcing the “two spaces” action at the end of a sentence. I doubt I will be able to break the habit (however, I did switch the wrist I wear my watch on, so there’s a chance).