open letter to UI designers

Dear Every UI designer in the English speaking world:

Use a fucking QWERTY keyboard.

Just use it. Please.

In the last week, I've been subjected to keyboards where the keys are in order from A-Z on the following: my Tivo, my Wii (Mario and Sonic Olympic Games), the jukebox at Fibbar's, and my GPS.

Serious, I don't understand. Everyone knows where the keys are on QWERTY. We're 100x faster. It's really hard to type on a weird keyboard where they keys are alphabetical, our brains don't know where to look for them.

Please. Always use a QWERTY keyboard. Or I will hunt you down and gut you like an animal.

guess it's good news/bad news

So, for no apparent reason, Youtube decided to kill its "Gadgets and Games" section of videos, even though it was always full of really great reviews, demos of gadgets, and a pretty thriving culture of geeks. You know, geeks, who make lots of videos and money, and are a really valuable core demographic.

Yeah. Gone. Of course, that's where Noobtoob lived, up until this week. Now we're in Entertainment, a much scarier wasteland of pirated asian TV shows, gay dudes watching gross movies and narrating them, people gossiping about celebrities and crying about Britney Spears.. Not really a place that we would stand out.

But the loyal fans are rating us highly, and we're up at #11 top rated for the day. Considering that means we're the #11 top rated in all of Entertainment instead of back in Gadgets and Games (where we were hitting #1 on the days we posted), it's not too bad. I love the Noobtoob army!

Maybe we'll even get more people who surf the top rated page and decide to try a couple dudes talking, instead of the screenshots of naked women that usually pepper the central frame of attention grabbing Youtube vids. Or maybe not. Hell, this is the internet. Boobies win every time.