Breakfast Links: Data Recovery, Best Keyboards & Travel IQ
Stpales is working with Seagate Recovery to get data off your dead devices (via). Now that’s pretty interesting - data recovery always seemed like something mysterious and only for the super important - you find some company and ship your drive to them and they figure it all out for you. Having it all within walking (or driving for you non-new yorkers) distance makes it accessible to everyone. I know there’s a few times in my day where I could’ve used something like this and I’m glad to know it’s around now!
And next time you have keyboard recovery needs (like when I hated my Apple keyboard) you might consult this list of the 22 best keyboards. Although, honestly? You might not. You know there’s going to be a problem when the #1 keyboard is the new Apple Keyboard. You may also take issue with the fact that the Happy Hacking Keyboard (this person’s keyboard of choice), only shows up as the limited edition version that costs $4400. I am positive that the authors of said list have used perhaps 2 of the keyboards there and don’t actually care about keyboards. But that’s just me.
In another bout of internet frustration, I tried my hand at the “How Well Do You Know Your World?” game. I’d actually seen it and played a level on Facebook, but here it is on the unsocial network. It turns out I, apparently, don’t know my world very well. I got a whopping 128,720 points and have a Traveler IQ of 87. Um. Sad? I blame the fact that it was like way super early in the morning when I played and um… the fact that I’m American? Give it a whirl and see if you can best my too sad score.
November 21st, 2007 at 10:48 am
Perfect game this am, or it would be if i had more caffeine and the map wasn’t too small. Score was 255,000 and IQ was 100. CLearly, I need more maps…
November 21st, 2007 at 11:40 am
I’m glad the map was that small, it made the magnitude of my mistakes feel less magnificent. :) I’m sad about my IQ.
November 21st, 2007 at 12:03 pm
Final score: 353,420
IQ: 110
No caffeine, no breakfast.
Only made it to level 10. Map was kinda small but I think they took that into account. Sometimes I’d mark things on the other side of the country and they’d still say “Good job!” =p
I gotta go grab some lunch.
November 21st, 2007 at 1:09 pm
Those keyboards sucked. Check out these Deck keyboards. I have one and they rule.
http://www.deckkeyboards.com/
November 21st, 2007 at 2:28 pm
Damn, it’s like you guys know where not-America is on the maps. I don’t know how you do it…
As for the deck - you just like it because it’s the only keyboard who’s website features a pretty lady to help sell it. Admit it. Oh and plus they somehow make the field of keyboard design glamorous:
“…Tom Giles, a 30-year keyboard design veteran who has developed some of the most awesome boards on the planet.”
He makes badass boards! :)
November 21st, 2007 at 4:01 pm
I was looking pretty closely at Deck’s offering and was pretty close to trying out an 82 - which is similar to the HHKB that I so love, but with mechanical keys and LED’s which would be nice sometimes. I dig the hard F keys at the top - that’s been my traditional beef with the HHKB - I wish it had a row of F-keys at the top - narrow ones like you find on a laptop would be perfect.
Anyhoo, the problem with the Deck 82 is that the windows key (which would map to the command key on my mac) is waaaay out in the upper right and the wierd placement of the tilde and fn keys right next to the space bar. That’s pretty weak sauce. Show stoppers for me. I thought since it was so focussed on modding there’d be some way to change that up, but alas, modding just means switching out the key caps. The HHKB has all these dip switches that let you actually change what the keys do. Sigh. Show stopper for me.
November 22nd, 2007 at 3:02 am
379,673
IQ: 113
Still not enough to get past level 10.
Next time I’m playing with my stylus instead of MacBook trackpad. Up too late with no caffeine, instead of too early like the rest of you.
November 22nd, 2007 at 11:25 am
Curse you all and your knowledge of these map things! I’m buying an atlas and studying for next time.