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> Yesterday I happened to see the control panel on a cherry
> picker/aerial lift. The speed control had no text. Instead there were
> two images - a hare at the top and a tortoise at the bottom. In
> between was a bar that tapered from top to bottom.
The first time I saw the tortoise/hare speed control was in Susan Kare's Control Panel for the original Macintosh:
=== Andrew Warren - awarren -at- synaptics -dot- com
=== Synaptics, Inc - Santa Clara, CA
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