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http://www.danaquarium.com/gallery/vhacks/powerbook_pda

OK, it's a photoshop job, but that pic probably received more positive comments than any other photoshopped hardware I'd done. There's interest out there.

Beige is OK, if the rest of a computer is designed well. The "beige box" is something that's often berated not because of its color, but because of the flimsy components, cheap design, tacky add-ons and crap fit & finish that often went with it. The fading out of the beige box isn't all because of a shift in case color, but the realisation from designers after colorful computers appeared that it was OK to be different in all manner of other ways.

A friend has a well-preserved collection of old beige machines ( http://www.danaquarium.com/gallery/beige/ ), and the photos show to me that a tidy appealing design isn't dependent on just color.

15" aluminum per this pic

http://www.danaquarium.com/galleryalbums/macodditi es/pbfire2.jpg

This from the company who equates "Free Software" with "Spyware". Who would expect them to massacre other definitions, like what an office suite is?

"Other computer systems without Microsoft AntiSpyware don't provide the safety that you get with Windows," he explains, in a swipe at the Linux OS. "when you download free software - even a free operating system - you double this effect. You are putting your computer and precious data at risk."

Small, safe and convenient nuclear laptop batteries, right here right now. :)

Senator calls for tax on Open Source software.

nuff said.

> Don't you believe for one MINUTE that we won't prosecute either.
> Hell, we could just bypass the criminal justice system and sue
> your precious little girl.

could never happen!

Or the Quadra Pounder with Cheese for the older mac users among us...

> Perhaps it isn't only the editors that should check the credibility of a story?

Everyone should check the credibility of what they read, for sure. A good friend of mine wrote a comical story on her blog at the beginning of this year about macintoshes getting intel upgrades. Remember this was before steve jobs let out the big news. Then in June when steve admitted it was true, someone submitted the story to slashdot. Then the world picked it up, and it was featured on engadget, the inquirer, hundreds of blogs, and within two weeks had made it to two US radio station broadcasts and was printed as a center piece in one Australian nationwide newspaper. The journalist at The Australian lost his job over it and a california radio news guy only just escaped with his.

The kicker was nobody wrote to her to check the origins of the story, not one solitary person until Media Watch, an Australian media watchdog television show contacted her to find out the reality behind the story in The Australian.

Tens of news sites blindly followed one another and printed what everyone else was printing. All the while many regular joes picked out it was meant for a laugh immediately.

It's the silliest thing I've read about non-IE browsers, and how they're BAD since I read this one.

No, really. Scientists deny altering findings

Wrong, this one burned.

I don't think you could type so well if the battery explodes and mangles up the keyboard quite badly

Yes, in a laptop

Weapon of mass destruction

Here is a friend's prediction of 2007's Powerbook 30"

Today I've booked my pet mouse, muis in for surgery to remove her third tumour. The previous surgeries have been successful, but it would be ace not to have her go through a general anaesthetic again.

(I realise this is an important development for fixing human cancers, but as a pet owner - it would be great to have these working fixes for the little ones it's been demonstrated on!)

How about OSX on a Gameboy

It's true, I read it on the interweb.

Open Source Browsers Damage Businesses

Yeah, not threatened at all.

The problem is the more densely used lithium is, the more dangerous it is. And normal LiIon batteries are really pushing the extremes of safety now.

Of course if your only other option is nuclear laptop batteries then maybe they're not so bad.