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I got my Dell Mini10V in the mail yesterday. It's small and red and pretty, but I had one minor issue with my order. When I was personalizing my order online, it asked me if I wanted a 24WHr 3-cell battery or a 56WhHr 6-cell battery; the 6-cell was just $35 more, but had double the lif... More.
Jeremy sez, "Video of a starlings swarming; rather amazing, and recalls for me many images from technology and nature."
Bird Swarm
(Thanks, Jeremy!)
Previously:Toxic waste gets birds laid - Boing Boing
Crows Birds stealing coins from car wash? - Boing Boing
Boing Boing: Amazing photos of starl... More.
It's been a good 20 years since I had a real hankering to wear Doc Marten's around, but I have to say I'm tempted by these skeleton boots whose bones glow in the freaking dark!
1914 BONES 14 EYE BOOT
BLACK LAMPER
(via Street Anatomy)
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It's gadgets like this Matrox 8-way video card -- which lets you drive eight 2560 x 1600 displays at once -- that make me think seriously about going back to a desktop machine and abandoning laptops. If only I could find 1) room for eight displays and 2) a graceful way of using the home partition on... More.
The MPAA has successfully shut down an entire town's municipal WiFi because a single user was found to be downloading a copyrighted movie. Rather than being embarrassed by this gross example of collective punishment (a practice outlawed in the Geneva conventions) against Coshocton, OH, the MPAA's sp... More.