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You wouldn't happen to be this pretentious ass, would you? (hint: use IE to go to that site)

"This picture: http://www.caffeine-junkies.com/images/articles/ik itchen/cut5.jpg"

Don't Drink and Dremel.

(apologies to Matt Groening)

You linked to the hacked up wall plate but forgot to mention the CAD design that came before it, and he still screwed up the drilling!

- That he was so obsessed with the goal of hiding a computer in a wall that he went out and bought a computer that's so small there's absolutely no point in hiding it in the wall. And to make matters funnier, he didn't make the CD drive accessible and had to buy an external one... about the same size as a Mac Mini and a lot uglier.

- This quote: "Since the Mac is designed in america, it's most convenient to measure it in their units, Imperial units, goodness knows why they can't use SI units like the rest of the world, probably their bias against the french."
(Hahaha. He has a point.)

- This picture: http://www.caffeine-junkies.com/images/articles/ik itchen/cut5.jpg
Just screams out 'M-m-m-mac mini!'
He should've scrawled labels on it with black marker pen...

- The whole "I'm so cool, I own a computer made by Apple Macintosh" (it's Apple, retard), "and I openly show how much I hate IE" (annoying) and "Let's deliberately get to a stage where I have to test it's still working as an excuse to show an Apple desktop" thing he has going.

- This unnecessary comment: "NOTE FOR LAYMEN: it's imperitive that the wires for the LED are kept the same way around, because an LED is just that, a DIODE, and thus it will only work if the current is going one way."
Well, no shit Sherlock! I'm glad your university degree taught you *something*. Personally I learned that in Science class at about age 12.

- The excessive use of CAT5 for everything just to look cool to a Slashdot audience. Ironically, ends up looking a complete pratt by using a patch cable *outside* of the wall. I have no words!

- At the end of the day, all he did was plonk the Mini on the floor and create a wall-mounted port replicator, and even end up wasting money on an external optical drive!

Got to love it. You have to be sorry for him, he's obviously just trying to look cool. He's also fallen for the old pitfall of obsessing so much about solving a challenge that didn't even exist, he ended up creating more problems and overcomplicating the whole thing. But it's so funny.

The browser name in the browser should be configurable. You end up with browser nazi sites like this one run by an anti-IE-nazi that put up nasty messages based on your browser. The ability to change the browser name could help get around this type of bad web site design.

instead of clicking next every 5 words
http://www.caffeine-junkies.com/?mode=articles&pag e=print&id=7 will help a lot

For alllll that effort he went through, this was the final result.

I was expecting to see something beautifully plugged into the wall like an ATM or whatnot, but this just looks like a regular computer. If he'd just put the Mac Mini under the table it'd look the same. Haha.

Here [Next] is [Next] my [Next] Mac [Next] Mini [Next] in [Next] a [Next] wall.

For everyone who just wants to skip to the chase and see "a Mac Mini in someone's kitchen wall", which is what I wanted to see (not pictures of an effing butter knife)...completed Mini in the wall.

Also, I think the entire W3C group has a simultaneous conniption with the author's use of "Clicky" to note an image that is also a link. That's the purpose, astoundingly, of a BLUE BORDER around an image...along with the cursor change, the tool tip, AND the display of a URL in the bottom of the browser window. I think it's probably worse than the usual "to see a picture of me and a llama, click here. To find out more about llamas, click here."

I know I had a conniption, thanks to the atrocious grammar....

Here [Next] is [Next] my [Next] Mac [Next] Mini [Next] in [Next] a [Next] wall.

For everyone who just wants to skip to the chase and see "a Mac Mini in someone's kitchen wall", which is what I wanted to see (not pictures of an effing butter knife)...completed Mini in the wall.

Also, I think the entire W3C group has a simultaneous conniption with the author's use of "Clicky" to note an image that is also a link. That's the purpose, astoundingly, of a BLUE BORDER around an image...along with the cursor change, the tool tip, AND the display of a URL in the bottom of the browser window. I think it's probably worse than the usual "to see a picture of me and a llama, click here. To find out more about llamas, click here."

I know I had a conniption, thanks to the atrocious grammar....

http://www.caffeine-junkies.com/?mode=articles&pag e=print&id=7 seems OK, and is all on one page.

Manta