NPR : Are Computer Keyboards Dishwasher Safe?
Studies show that computer keyboards have more bacteria than toilet seats. But it’s hard to clean all those keys. So some people advocate an extreme solution: Throw your keyboard in your dishwasher.
I’ve done this twice before with 100% success. In both cases a sugary drink was spilled on the keyboard and keys started sticking. I just washed on the short cycle alone in the dishwasher (without soap) and let it dry for a few days before plugging it back in. My other option of course was to throw the keyboards away so I really didn’t have anything to lose.
A small amount of soap shouldn’t hurt, just be sure to shake all the water out and let it dry for a few days.
I have not tried this on a wireless keyboard, but I suspect it would work, be sure to take the batteries out first.
God Said Pi = 3; Stand By Your Beliefs Dammit « Gospel of Reason
He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to measure around it. Below the rim, gourds encircled it - ten to a cubit. The gourds were cast in two rows in one piece with the Sea. The Sea stood on twelve bulls, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south and three facing east. The Sea rested on top of them, and their hindquarters were toward the center. It was a handbreadth in thickness, and its rim was like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held two thousand baths. (NIV)
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Interesting video on how to tie a Monkey’s Fist knot.
Worlds tallest Lego tower built from 465,000 bricks | the Daily Mail
The 94.3ft-high pirate ship mast was made with 465,000 bricks, breaking a previous record of 93.43ft set in Denmark last year.
Wooster Collective: Shit We’re Diggin’: Max Tyrie’s Hand Made Modest Mouse Video
Whoa:
“Myself and a couple have friends have entered the above into the Modest Mouse video competition. Using green screen footage provided by the band we cut a simple music video. We then degraded the images and printed out each frame sequentially. (all 4133 of them) We then nailed each “shot” of 50-100 posters to various structures and posts. Then using a digital SLR camera with a long exposure we frame by frame shot each poster. Oh, and theres a little video projection (again, frame by frame on the SLR) just to mix it up. There is no compositing, no shortcuts, just lots of blood, sweat and tears, and a huge Kinkos bill!”…. Max
John Invents Treasure Hunting Robot (from Wiltshire Times)
Mashup of a robot and a metal detector. Sounds like a good project to make for the beach.
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Gene Weingarten writes an interesting article for the Washington Post about a list of phrases that he couldn’t find. Of course once he wrote the article he became the only link, and now bloggers are following suit by listing the phrases themselves.
So here are my favorites:
- Googlenope.
- Queen Elizabeth’s buttocks.
- Caviar ‘n’ taters.
- . . . much to Paris Hilton’s embarrassment . . .
- I was helped by the federal government.
- If you take off your bra, I’m calling the cops.
- I believe dust mites have souls.
- The best pork chops in Jerusalem.
- Tiffani Suarez.
- Moishe Goebbels.
- Please accept these underpants as collateral . . .
- I owe my life to unprotected sex.
- I’m going to be concentrating on my home-wrecking now.
- Nelson Mandela is a doo-doo head.
- My grandchildren are so ugly.
- Hey, this tastes like aardvark.
- Laura Bush’s secret tattoo.
- I’ll take Deaths by Autoerotic Asphyxia for $400, Alex.
- Pizza with Condoleezza.
- The dainty Hillary Clinton.
- Wearing only a codpiece and a sombrero.
- George W. Bush’s subtlety.
And now some that I found:
- “consensual sex among trekkies”
- “flaming coconut tree”
- “elated grizzly”
See what you can find, it’s not all that difficult.
This is one of the funniest things I’ve seen recently.