Gear

Geek Lemmings Want Clean Keyboards

Today’s Morning Edition on NPR had a hilarious and unintentionally insightful piece on, of all things, cleaning your keyboard. Have you taken a close look at yours lately? Unless you Steri-Wipe your fingers every time you type, your keyboard has probably accumulated as much grime as a bus station toilet — and even those get […]

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Today's Morning Edition on NPR had a hilarious and unintentionally insightful piece on, of all things, cleaning your keyboard. Have you taken a close look at yours lately? Unless you Steri-Wipe your fingers every time you type, your keyboard has probably accumulated as much grime as a bus station toilet -- and even those get wiped down every once in awhile. Unfortunately, a Q-Tip just doesn't cut it.

The priceless part?

"I think now when you type 'keyboard' and 'dishwasher' into Google, my site comes up as one of the first results," [Scott Moschella of Plastic Bugs] says. "Clearly, you know, all it takes is one geek to do something stupid, and you've got a whole bunch of lemmings who are willing to jump off a cliff with you."

If that's not the most accurate summation of Web 2.0 that I've ever heard, I'll replace my own keyboard with a bus station toilet. Also, is there a good reason why the geek lemming hordes should be trying to clean their keyboards by throwing them in the KitchenAid? Do no better cleaning methods exist? Can we divert some genius from the space program and get them on this problem?