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I’m back on the stolen internet for a spell. Whether or not I’ll ever be online again is up in the air. Sure everything will be fine, they say, till a week later when it all blows up and then it turns out everything was done SO badly it can’t be made right [...]

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Fabulous!

The Local (”Sweden’s News in English”) - The Pirate Bay plans to buy island

Swedish file-sharing website The Pirate Bay is planning to buy its own nation in an attempt to circumvent international copyright laws.

ninme claps in glee

(Although it would be funner if it were in the Caribbean somewhere…)

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He’s having a “nerdgasm”. Included in this morning missives:

Jobs had the Zune logo up on his slideshow, too. On fire. Jesus this thing HAS to be incredibly expensive. It’s got a giant flipping screen, proximity sensors, an accelerometer for some reason.. 8Gbs space I think.. 2mp camera.. thing as [...]

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Power Line - Not just any idiot

Last night, John reported that “some idiot hacked into our server and briefly disrupted the site.” He promised to “make every effort to see that [the hacker] is criminally prosecuted.” It turns out that this was an inside job and that I was the [...]

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So today after a long morning of buying water heaters and paint, Peter won an iPod at Safeway.

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So, as comments-divers will know, we’re having some difficulty with ranges. It’s a common problem, apparently, as DirtCrashr will attest. So here are some options:

Frigidaire + microwave - baseprice (”meh”)

Kitchenaid + microwave - base + $390 (microwave very 1992).

Jenn-Air + microwave - base + $740 (practically the much better Bosch)

Or, for just an [...]

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He’s been busy the past few weeks, but managed to send this little jewel along my way:

CNET News.blog - No Internet at United Nations ‘Internet’ summit

You’d think that of all places that should have speedy and reliable Internet access, a United Nations summit on the Internet would be high on the list. [...]

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Geekzone - Logitech Introduces DiNovo Edge Bluetooth Keyboard

Logitech says it is more than a keyboard, it is a minimalist work of high-technology art. The company is introducing the Logitech diNovo Edge keyboard. The new keyboard comes with a high-gloss finish, is laser cut from a single, semi-translucent piece of black [...]

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I’ve been having webby issues lo this past week, one of its manifestations being a spotty inability to check my “regular” email address, and I just spent the past hour or so talking to the nice man in Manilla and he had to give up! So he took my phone number and abruptly told [...]

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Gizmodo - Robot iPod Dock-on-Wheels

Reason #gazillion to get hardwood floors.

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I’m starting to think I need to get the Lego NXT thing, especially if the asian girl is included:

Business Week - Lego Takes Tech Over the Top: The famous Danish toymaker takes its Technics line into the future with Mindstorms NXT computerized, motorized robots

I mean, damn. Maybe I [...]

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Why do I always have strange men crawling around beneath my desk?

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COO-KEEES!!

Barry’s Farm vintage fit - Monster Laptop Sleeve

He says it’s his next laptop case. I think I’ll have to hold him to that.

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This is from yesterday. I just thought it was hilarious.

The Times - Step over to the cave some time and check out the size of my plasma. LA Notebook by Chris Ayres

MALE VALIDATION is hard to come by these days: Modern Man is not required to kill his dinner, tame his transport, [...]

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He’s, uh, keen on getting a new keyboard.

Update:

…And everything you ever wanted to know about domain name availability.

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