UtterlyBoring.com is produced by Jake Ortman (e-mail, resume), a 30-year-old dad, percussionist, freelance Web designer, consultant and jack-of-all-trades computer geek, living in Bend, Oregon. He created this so that his expensive journalism and technology degree isn't getting totally wasted. In addition to editing this site in his free time, he is the IT Director and Ad Designer at both Sunray and Discover Sunriver. He has LinkedIn, MySpace, Facebook profiles if you're trying to stalk him.
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The folks at Tech TV sent an often-used keyboard to the folks at UC Berkeley School of Public Health for testing. The results? While it didn't have any E.coli or salmonella growing on it, it did have bacteria that could have included staphylococcus. Full Story
I have sucessfully washed Mac keyboards in the dishwasher many times. I have also been known to pop the keyboards out of iBooks and PowerBooks and clean them. I have gotten pretty good at that scissor clasp mechanism on the mac laptop keys :)