Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Under-Appreciated Inventions that are Blowing Your Mind-Hole

This is the first of a new series entitled, "Under-Appreciated Inventions that are Blowing Your Mind-Hole." Today, we highlight the value of a little known invention that could very well be resting beneath one of your fingers RIGHT NOW. It's that "Mouse-Scroll-Button-Thing." This button is fantastic, and has completely changed the way I naviage web pages. Sometimes, when I'm really tired/bored, I'll scroll that little button so that the "clicky" sound it makes resembles a familiar song (Today, I did it to the tune of the new Kanye West song "Stronger").

And I get so angry when the scroll button feature is disabled. Oh, it's infuriating. I mean, it's completely become a crutch for all of my scrolling needs. It seems like a burden to move my cursor over to the sidebar of the screen and manually move the bar. What is this, Communist Russia? No thank you, I prefer to scroll through Death Cab's MySpace page like an American.

So God Bless You, Mouse-Scroll-Button-Thing. If I was Carrie Underwood I'd write a song for you, and sing it at the Grammy's.

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