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  • Kindle hacked to run Linux

    Kindle hacked to run Linux

    Posted on September 2, 2009 | No Comments
    BBG has a great piece on hacking the Kindle to run Linux including a version of X Windows. The Kindle is essentially a fairly powerful little Linux box and with a little elbow grease you can train it to read almost any type of document file and even run Ubuntu on it.

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  • Analysts believe iPhone will become non-AT&T exclusive in a year

    Analysts believe iPhone will become non-AT&T exclusive in a year

    Posted on August 31, 2009 | No Comments
    Oh, Gene Munster. You keep popping up like the loose Cheerios my nine-month-old daughter drops at breakfast. What are you up to this time, you little scamp? Munster of Piper Jaffray "predicts" that AT&T will lose its iPhone exclusivity by the end of 2010, thereby rendering the company impotent and insolvent. Some contenders for the iPhone throne include Verizon. This ignores the fact that AT&T is fighting like a champ to keep the iPhone until 2011 but it seems the popular perception of AT&T as a pile of fail may put a damper on Apple's wish to stay put.

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  • Coder Girl by Dale Chase: A pretty interface…

    Coder Girl by Dale Chase: A pretty interface…

    Posted on July 28, 2009 | No Comments
    ..plus her source is tight, eh? Coder Girl by K-Squared. Catchy, funny, cute girls. But, as Fake Steve notes "this depicts two demographics that don't actually exist at Apple."

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  • Slab-Like iPhone Case Hewn From Solid Metal

    Slab-Like iPhone Case Hewn From Solid Metal

    Posted on July 15, 2009 | No Comments
    Every morning my inbox is almost full of pitches for various iPhone cases. Gel skins and anodized pictures of sock monkeys are today’s offerings. They are almost always humdrum, and usually virtual clones of one another, probably all starting life in the same Chinese factory. But the Exovault is different, and not just because no PR [...]

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  • Video: Making a smoothie with Joel Johnson and the Vita-Mix 5200

    Video: Making a smoothie with Joel Johnson and the Vita-Mix 5200

    Posted on July 8, 2009 | No Comments
    How many times does one man get to watch another man make a Smoothie in the comfort of his wood paneled home? Well, Joel at BBG shared his experience with the Vita-Mix 5200 blender, a $450 uber-blender that reduces frozen fruit to "fruit slop" in seconds. The blender is quite powerful yet he notes that its "laudable blending ability doesn't even make itself apparent unless you're blending quite a bit of food at once." The same can be said of my lower intestine.

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  • Darth Vader clock: Know when it’s time to wake up alone

    Darth Vader clock: Know when it’s time to wake up alone

    Posted on July 6, 2009 | No Comments
    It's only $32.99, it includes an auxiliary jack for your iPod, MP3, or CD player, and runs off wall power o one 9-volt battery. Sadly it's only available for pre-order right now, but heck, you're not doing anything until August anyway. Just order it and wait.

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  • Mexican Jumping Beans: Not a good fajita topping

    Mexican Jumping Beans: Not a good fajita topping

    Posted on June 29, 2009 | No Comments
    Did you know that the worms inside Mexican Jumping Beans weave a silk wall if their beans are broken? Or that they avoid light and heat? Or that they taste horrible in a burrito? Learn all this and more in this video from the BBC and then head over to MyPetBeans where they sell a tin of beans for $10. I just bought some for my kid(s).

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