"It's the wild colour scheme that freaks me," said Zaphod whose love affair with this ship had lasted almost three minutes into the flight, "Every time you try to operate on of these weird black controls that are labelled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up black to let you know you've done it. What is this? Some kind of galactic hyperhearse?"
The walls of the swaying cabin were also black, the ceiling was black, the seats - which were rudimentary since the only important trip this ship was designed for was supposed to be unmanned - were black, the control panel was black, the instruments were black, the little screws that held them in place were black, the thin tufted nylon floor covering was black, and when they had lifted up a corner of it they had discovered that the foam underlay also was black.
"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" by Douglas Adams
Though the makers of the 100% blank Das Keyboard claim to cater to übergeeks, it seems like typing teachers (do such people even exist anymore?) could use these in their classrooms to teach students how to type without peeking at the keyboard.
Heck, while we're streamlining the keyboard, it's just a hop, skip and a jump to simplifying the mouse, too!
(via The Presurfer)
Test your mad keyboardism skillz with a typing test and a ten-key test. Here's how I fared:
If you fared worse than you would have hoped, you can create an account there at Learn2Type.com and get some free touch typing lessons. Me, I think this dog may be too old to learn this new trick.
No comments:
Post a Comment