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Engadget seems to have gotten its grubby little mitts on a few more spy shots of Nokia’s 870 Internet Tablet, this time with some actual content.
As far as I can tell, the current benefits over the Nokia 770 are limited to: slightly increased RAM, a camera, an integrated stand, and an additional SD slot. […]

I’ve just hooked up the Popularity Contest WordPress plugin, and it’s pretty cool. Since it’s just now starting to collect data, most of the entries will be based on comments, but the most hardlinked pages should make it to the top pretty fast.
A word of warning if you want to use this plugin though, […]

I’ve been looking for something like the JimXfor a while now, ever since the last time I was mugged. After the hassle of canceling my credit cards and replacing my driver’s license, I stopped carrying a wallet. I keep my money loose in my front pocket, and my ID and credit cards in […]

Damn you, Ryan North! Your Canadian hilarity is no match for Wikipedia’s humorless pedantry.
Seriously though, defacing Wikipedia is not cool, but chickens are totally hilarious.

portable cygwin
Install cygwin on a portable device
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My computer started dying a few weeks ago, and I’ve been in a struggle to recover it since. I think I’ve finally got all the hardware worked out, but the end result was still a completely corrupted installation of Windows 2000. Now, I’d been thinking of upgrading to XP anyways (I’m pretty happy […]

Like every other person I know who’s enjoyed a computer game at some point in their life, I’m anxiously awaiting next year’s release of Will Wright’s Spore. If you’re not one of those people, Spore is like a mash-up of every Sim* game before it: you go from a microscopic organism, to a land […]

Last week, Microsoft released a new dashboard update for the Xbox 360. I don’t use mine for much except Dead Rising and Fight Night, so I never bothered to hook it up to live or anything like that. My options in doing so either involved running a length of cat5 downstairs through the […]

instructables : LED Throwies
LED Throwies are an inexpensive way to add color to any ferromagnetic surface in your neighborhood. A Throwie consists of a lithium battery, a 10mm diffused LED and a rare-earth magnet taped together. Throw it up high and in quantity to impress your frien
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