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Oh. That makes sense.

Vinegar, a sponge and elbow grease works.

Also: ALWAYS BUY BLACK. Seriously folks. Whatever the fashion, every color/metal other than black shows dirt. Black stovetop plus black refrigerator doors = only my mother( /- in-law) sees the dirt.

Making extra heat isn't a waste if your husband is standing next to you in the winter and shivering.

--husband

Souk --- That's a great idea, but you would not want to cool them very far. Below 120ºF and you seriously risk growing Legionnaires' bacteria in the tank. So if set yours to the 120º-130º range normally, you're already at the safe minimum.

The glossy is a disaster. I work IT in a creative office, and nearly everybody I give one of these monitors to demands their old monitor back. the color calibration is a step down, and glare has subtle effects beyond whether your brain adapts over the course of a long workday -- like eye fatigue and headaches.

They're very pretty. I'm running one and everybody that hasn't used one oohs and ahhs when they see it. Great for Apple marketing...

We're coddling our previous-gen displays and hoping they last for our videographers and photographers until Apple demotes whomever decided to discontinue customer choice in screen coating.

eek. Looks nice and all, but I don't clean my surfaces nearly often enough to have glass hanging over spitting oil. I'll keep sticking to ugly, clunky, out-of-fashion, BLACK stove accessories.

Mordazy -- some people can get away with just that. Other people need all that and more.

I'm in the "other people" group -- but for my fingers, not my wrists. I have small hands, and the act of stretching my pinkies to the 3rd and 4th keyboard row far edge keys puts so much strain across my tendons that I used to lie awake at night from the aching and burning.

Good ergonomic keyboards (and not just the wavy junk that looks fancy) actually reduce the travel from key to key, and put your wrists in a more relaxed position. The difference is dramatic -- but if you don't have tendon, joint or nerve problems, you won't really feel the difference.

For me, if I put in a 10-hour day on my Kinesis, I can still go home and surf the Web a bit, and then sleep soundly with only minor soreness. If I try to work from home on a normal keyboard, after 6-8 hours I'm in severe pain that lasts until the next morning.

Dude. After developing some nasty RSI in college, my employment is entirely dependent on the Kinesis Advantage. It has a normal key arrangement, but dipped into "bowls" -- so you touch-type as normal, but with your fingers only having to move half as much. The keys also have a nice long "travel," so you can trigger each key without striking bottom.

It only takes about half a day to adjust, and is soooooooooo comfortable once you do.

That and it's easy to swap keys around, so you can map functions away from your weakest fingers.

http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/contoured.htm

I assume bending your neck back is ergonomically worse than looking to the side. Neither is good...but I think the side glance is less likely to make you sore...

lay it on top of warm brie and serve it on crackers.