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On the freeway during an obvious merge situation, do you zoom up the empty lane to the end and cut in or do you patiently wait in line and try to freeze the zoomers out?

I've been studying the theories http://amasci.com/amateur/traffic/links.html (or more articulately described http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03traffic-t.html), but was curious how the YC crowd approaches this problem.

I need to add a button to my site that will toggle a series of graphs from zoomed in to zoomed out. Some users will want to see all the sparklines against the same range. Some users will want to see each sparkline zoomed to it's own range.

sometimes you want to compare each graph against the others. sometimes you want to look at the detailed trend in one graph.

I only have room for 1 button in the design (in the top left corner of the grid).

I'm having a hard time coming up with a button that makes it clear that it will change the zoom / unzoom the graphs and show the current status of the zoom.

all the designs I've seen use 2 buttons (small / large magnifying glass, close / far mountains).

Anyone have any good ideas on how to do this with only 1 button?

My barber is looking for a way for customers to schedule appointments. Something simple and reliable. I should be able to check his current availability and request an appointment.

He should be able to approve it (with email notification to me).

He currently keeps his schedule in his phone (Verizon on the built in calendar). So access from the phone is important.

A reminder to me the day before my appointment would be nice.

This isn't hard stuff, but it seems silly that I'd have to write it.

Anyone have a recommendation for something that already exists?

I've hunted google, but mainly it looks like some salons are easy to rip off because the software sucks, but my searches haven't been exhaustive.

I'm hoping someone has come through here with just the thing I need or someone has seen it already.

thoughts?