Emoticons and Terminal Punctuation

Here is an interesting and stupid discussion regarding an emoticon's relationship to terminal punctuation. Certainly worth a skim. Also there is this.

"Punctuation Rebellion", or How I Stick it to the Man

For a while now, I've been refusing to put trailing punctuation inside of quotation marks, unless the trailing punctuation is an integral part of the thought delineated by said quotation marks. That rule about keeping the punctuation inside quotations is stupid and blunt and I hate it. Right on, this article.

Professional writers, what do you think about this? Are there rules that YOU would break for the greater good of all humankind, if you weren't so terrified of being reprimanded for insubordination?