Splinters Archive

  • Man builds Vespa rocking horse for grandchild, jealousy for everyone else

    Man builds Vespa rocking horse for grandchild, jealousy for everyone else

    Here is a photo of the luckiest kid in the world. Look at that cute little face. He seems to be saying “I have a Vespa rocking horse. Do you have a Vespa rocking horse? Where do you keep your Vespa rocking horse? I’m but a small child so I can only assume that all other children have a Vespa rocking horse just like mine.”

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  • Seagate’s new 2TB hard drive pushes 6Gb/s transfer speed

    Seagate’s new 2TB hard drive pushes 6Gb/s transfer speed

    Seagate’s just busted through that swing-down arm thing commonly found at tollbooths and for-pay parking lots. In the wake of thousands of little wooden splinters, we observe Seagate sticking its hairy arm out the driver’s side window, fist clenched but for a solitary index finger pointing skyward, as if to say, “I’m number one.”

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  • Secret of The USB Chainsaw Revealed

    Secret of The USB Chainsaw Revealed

    Remember the USB chainsaw that was last seen defying the laws of physics and shredding plywood into brittle splinters on just five trickling volts of bus-power? It was, as we predicted, a spoof. But the reasons behind it are quite serious, if you’re a hippy tree-hugger, that is. The i.Saw site has transformed into the Papercut [...]

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