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Avast! It’s A Pirate Keyboard, Me Matey

Real pirate ships don’t have computers onboard.  Or do they?  This customized Pirate Keyboard suggests some clues.
Created by designer Bobby Baker, the clever poke at pirates (the seafaring variety, rather than the torrent-monger kind) imagines what a useful personalized keyboard for them will actually look like.  The result is this: six keys that contain all of the ASCII character set that a real pirate will need to type.
There’s an exclamation point, a letter R (or as pirates would say, Rrrrrr), a Shift key, an Enter key and a space bar.  Oh yeah, there’s also an Avast key (no, it won’t launch the antivirus), which I guess is supposed to type the nautical lingo for commanding you to stop.  Basically, you can use it to type as many variations of “Avast! Rrrrrr RRRR!” as you can come up with.  It may not look like a lot to you, but it should [...]