The New Yorker has an amazing new article on elevators. I especially love this bit and it reminded me of how I feel about Airborne, astrology and other causational nonsense. For the record: there are no personality archetypes determined by the apparent relative positions of celestial bodies and you would have not gotten sick anyway.
And, this video, accompanying the New Yorker article, is fucking chilling. Try and watch it with the sound.

“In most elevators, at least in any built or installed since the early nineties, the …

According to Wiktionary the first sited usage:

1950: Beverly Cleary, Henry Huggins, p21

“Whatcha got in that bag?” asked Scooter.
“None of your beeswax,” answered Henry.

And I wanted to stop there. Why? Because Beverly Cleary is the awesomest ever! Just ask Sarah. But it seems, as it often does, that usage trails back further. Some goofy earthlink website dates it to the 20’s stating, “The twenties were the first decade to emphasize youth culture over the older generations, and the flapper sub-culture had a tremendous influence on main stream …

…on top of that Central Asian weirdness is all this Richard-Gere do-gooder nonsense about the peace-loving Tibetans assaulted by the ruthless Red Chinese. Both parts of that story are wrong, wrong, wrong. The Tibetans were never peaceful people at all. They were one of the most warlike peoples in Central Asia and even conquered the Chinese capital, Chang’An, in their heyday.
THE EXILE - Tibet: Five to One Against - By Gary Brecher - The War Nerd