You know you've thought about it: throwing that dingy keyboard into the dishwasher. And now someone's documented the whole process...

Coudal.com:

Michele read a couple weblog entries and heard an NPR story about how you might be able to clean your computer keyboard in the dishwasher. So she organized a bit of an experiment. Just like with socks in the laundry, somehow a couple of our matching keys disappeared in the process. Luckily they were F10 and F11. We never use those anyhow.