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What is interesting, though, is how the "DM's Girlfriend" dynamic changes when she becomes the DM's wife. He never really fell into that trap, though not for lack of trying on her part. He used to say "Crap, I'm in the dog house again. Oh well.", but now he just laughs. It's funny how your perspective changes when breaking up involves lawyers.

My wife is a bit more typical. Wearing the Chicks Dig Unix shirt I got her is about as close as she gets to any of my geekly habits. She is OS agnostic, though, which is handy since we only have one computer. As long as she can check her email, she's happy.

I think she would really like Counter-Strike, but she refuses to try it.

Ok, I have a few questions. 1) If linux is so much "better" than Windows, why would you want them to open the source to 3.1? So idiot 13-year old OSS "programmers" can learn coding techniques? 2) They are a business. Of course they are trying to make money. There is nothing wrong with making money, unless you want to spend the rest of your life eating ramen noodles and wearing a dirty old ripped white t-shirt for the rest of your life. Bill Gates is one hell of a businessman. He wouldn't be a businessman if Windows was free. When will you people get it? Good stuff in life doesn't come free... just ask homeless people. and 3) If Windows were free, I'd use it w/out any regrets Let me ask, did you pay for your copy of Windows?

I noticed this a few days ago over at

I noticed this a few days ago over at

Well, since I already have this to match my boyfriend, nothing would be nicer than another T-shirt to proclaim my geekiness to the world.
And, boys, don't forget to make it a night she won't forget of champagne, roses, chocolates, and patching your kernels together.

Well, since I already have this to match my boyfriend, nothing would be nicer than another T-shirt to proclaim my geekiness to the world.
And, boys, don't forget to make it a night she won't forget of champagne, roses, chocolates, and patching your kernels together.

I think it's a gift option that's always overlooked, primarily because the buyer isn't sure what the recipient would want. But I've always believed that books can be a timeless gift, treasured for years. Whether it be fiction, non-fiction, reference, or a little of each, I know that I always appreciate books. Heck, go to FatBrain to find a huge collection of technical books, or maybe to ThinkGeek for options like fiction, non-fiction, programming reference, and so on. And if you're not sure, DO get a gift certificate for your loved one at a bookstore (or even for the aforementioned websites!). Then they can pick out the books themselves, and they can't hardly go wrong.

Could you possibly be more vague?

There are many ways to generate holographic images. The question is in the details. Will we see the same thing from any angle? Will a series of mirrors be used or just several lasers? How big will the picture really be?

It's just as possible in the future we'll all just strap on somethng similar to the I-Glasses and individualize te experience.

You need a shirt like this to remind the ladies that they find hackers irrestable. Women constantly say to me, "You know I do dig Unix... wanna go out?"

Why not just get one of these?

It's got everything you want, in a PC the size of a CD player.

1. Eric "esr" Raymond
2. Richard "rms" Stallman
3. ...even our own CowboyNeal

Are they unhealthy because they are geeks, or are they geeks because they are unhealthy? I venture to say that it is the latter. Let's face it, if you are unhealthy and/or unattractive, you are likely to develop a more introverted personality. That, by it's very nature, will estrange you from the public eye. Technology is a wonderful haven for people who are hiding from the general public, and as all of you know, the more time you spend with technology the more profecient you become, and the more likely you are to make a significant contribution to the public through it.

As an example, let me ask a question: Would Stephen Hawking have made the same advances if he had not been confined to a wheelchair and so severely disabled? He is one of my true heros, but he has since he has chosen not to give up and let his handicap destroy him, the only way he has to fight it is to use his mind--so that's what he does, constantly. I daresay that if he were not disabled, he would have spent more time in social situations, with family, etc., and would have had less time to explore the universe with his mind and report the results.

Unfortunately, under- and over-nourishment is dangerous, and a serious detriment to anyone's health. When this is the staple that geeks swear by, how can we expect to stay healthy?

What we need to realize is that, while we should praise the endeavours of geeks around us, and even those of ourselves, we should come to an awareness that our health needs to be our number one priority, regardless of our social status (ascribed or percieved). Personally, I've begun to work out on a daily basis (I gave up on gyms...get a Bowflex, they're worth the money, and it's yours to keep long after a gym membership has expired!), watch what I eat (lay off fried foods, cut back on caffiene, cut out most beef and pork), and get plenty of rest.

It may seem futile now, but a lifestyle altered for the better will likely extend your life for many years, and make those last years good ones. It's time to spread the word, but most of all, to heed it yourself. The following are some great books and articles with more information:

1. An interview with a "fitness guru" on Fatgeeks.com.
2. An eating guidebook by two computer geeks with a child and active careers.
3. A website dedicated to "Yummy teen and geek nutrition...
4. A discussion on Slashdot about this very subject.

--SC

1. Eric "esr" Raymond
2. Richard "rms" Stallman
3. ...even our own CowboyNeal

Are they unhealthy because they are geeks, or are they geeks because they are unhealthy? I venture to say that it is the latter. Let's face it, if you are unhealthy and/or unattractive, you are likely to develop a more introverted personality. That, by it's very nature, will estrange you from the public eye. Technology is a wonderful haven for people who are hiding from the general public, and as all of you know, the more time you spend with technology the more profecient you become, and the more likely you are to make a significant contribution to the public through it.

As an example, let me ask a question: Would Stephen Hawking have made the same advances if he had not been confined to a wheelchair and so severely disabled? He is one of my true heros, but he has since he has chosen not to give up and let his handicap destroy him, the only way he has to fight it is to use his mind--so that's what he does, constantly. I daresay that if he were not disabled, he would have spent more time in social situations, with family, etc., and would have had less time to explore the universe with his mind and report the results.

Unfortunately, under- and over-nourishment is dangerous, and a serious detriment to anyone's health. When this is the staple that geeks swear by, how can we expect to stay healthy?

What we need to realize is that, while we should praise the endeavours of geeks around us, and even those of ourselves, we should come to an awareness that our health needs to be our number one priority, regardless of our social status (ascribed or percieved). Personally, I've begun to work out on a daily basis (I gave up on gyms...get a Bowflex, they're worth the money, and it's yours to keep long after a gym membership has expired!), watch what I eat (lay off fried foods, cut back on caffiene, cut out most beef and pork), and get plenty of rest.

It may seem futile now, but a lifestyle altered for the better will likely extend your life for many years, and make those last years good ones. It's time to spread the word, but most of all, to heed it yourself. The following are some great books and articles with more information:

1. An interview with a "fitness guru" on Fatgeeks.com.
2. An eating guidebook by two computer geeks with a child and active careers.
3. A website dedicated to "Yummy teen and geek nutrition...
4. A discussion on Slashdot about this very subject.

--SC

Actually, you can buy outdoor enclosures and mounting systems like the ones from Pelco for the Axis cameras. If you don't want to do it yourself, there are many retailers who build complete packages of cameras, enclosures, and accessories.

Also, ThinkGeek sells the Axis 2100 and the Axis 2120. And to make it even cooler, the cameras run Linux.

Actually, you can buy outdoor enclosures and mounting systems like the ones from Pelco for the Axis cameras. If you don't want to do it yourself, there are many retailers who build complete packages of cameras, enclosures, and accessories.

Also, ThinkGeek sells the Axis 2100 and the Axis 2120. And to make it even cooler, the cameras run Linux.

ThinkGeek for all your caffeine needs.

ThinkGeek for all your caffeine needs.

Hmm. Use some of that fabric they use to make computerized clothes out of, and use it as a coffee cup cozy.

I want to make a PC Case out of One of these

Why pay $99 for a package that you can get for free? Especially when Red Carpet will install Wine seamlessly and painlessly, with just three clicks.

Myself, I'm in the process of moving from a Linux-only system to a dual-boot Linux/Windows system, only because there are a few apps I still can't get to work in VMWare. (Specifically, I have no way of installing software on my Palm, and anything multimedia works poorly if at all.) If Wine can get these to work, and possibly IE and Word, for the few times when Opera and OpenOffice don't quite do the trick, I'm all for it.

Wine has (or potentially will have) all the advantages of Lindows, with none of the disadvantages. I'd rather just spend the $99 on another monitor so I can have a setup like Jon from ThinkGeek's happy family.

I think this is about as useful as the Matrix Binary Watch reported on Slashdot here.

Seriously, if you have a couple hundred dollars to waste on device like this, perhaps you should think about donating to a charity or something at least worthwhile.

"4. Read the kernel source." Yeah. Well, i stopped after the first 300 pages. I found the plot a bit too thin. Maybe it gets better along the way, i dunno. I liked the photo version of the kernel a lot better ;p

My emotional reaction is Noooooooo! Not because I'm elitist and arrogant, I can always find another thing to be arrogant about, ("You use the newbie tool to rebuild, loser" ) but I don't want to field a hundred questions each from a hundred people. I don't want my mother calling me and asking me if she needs iRDA modules, or constantly answering questions at the bar from people who probably have no need to get into that stuff. It's bad enough now fielding questions about windows... I gotta get this shirt from thinkgeek.

Get one of these babies instead. There's ActiveSync type software for Linux, and if you tire of PocketPC 2002 OS, you can always put Linux on it.

For $430 (after rebate) you get 240x320, 96MB of storage, 206MHz StrongARM processor, expansion pack capability including "compactflash" and PCMCIA cards, infrared capability, USB, and it plays whatever audio Windows Media Player will take, up to and including MP3.

The question is, why Palm?

Get one of these babies instead. There's ActiveSync type software for Linux, and if you tire of PocketPC 2002 OS, you can always put Linux on it.

For $430 (after rebate) you get 240x320, 96MB of storage, 206MHz StrongARM processor, expansion pack capability including "compactflash" and PCMCIA cards, infrared capability, USB, and it plays whatever audio Windows Media Player will take, up to and including MP3.

The question is, why Palm?

I know very few PC users who even think about their computer case for a second. It usually is tucked away under a desk somewhere and forgotten.

'zat a fact now?

I know very few PC users who even think about their computer case for a second. It usually is tucked away under a desk somewhere and forgotten.

'zat a fact now?

There are actually quite a few network cameras available if you don't need a high-speed camera. Most have a built-in webserver, and several run a version of embedded linux. My personal favorite (and Ed's) is the Panasonic KX-HCM10 which can be had for as low as $329.99. The Axis and Samsung cameras are pretty cool too, if you can afford them.

Other cameras include the StarDot NetCam, which is also available from ThinkGeek (along with the Axis 2100 and 2120 cameras) and the IQeye cameras.

The real advantage to these is that you can simply plug them into your network and watch [whatever] through your web browser. My interest stems from my upcoming need to be able to work and keep an eye on a baby sleeping at the same time. There are, of course, baby monitors that come with little TV's or that plug into your television, and the annoying X10 cameras, but they all require a separate monitor and need extra gear to be viewed in more than one location. With a network camera, not only can we watch the kid from any computer in the house, but relatives can watch too, over the internet. And all I need to do to set it up is plug it in and set the IP address.

There are actually quite a few network cameras available if you don't need a high-speed camera. Most have a built-in webserver, and several run a version of embedded linux. My personal favorite (and Ed's) is the Panasonic KX-HCM10 which can be had for as low as $329.99. The Axis and Samsung cameras are pretty cool too, if you can afford them.

Other cameras include the StarDot NetCam, which is also available from ThinkGeek (along with the Axis 2100 and 2120 cameras) and the IQeye cameras.

The real advantage to these is that you can simply plug them into your network and watch [whatever] through your web browser. My interest stems from my upcoming need to be able to work and keep an eye on a baby sleeping at the same time. There are, of course, baby monitors that come with little TV's or that plug into your television, and the annoying X10 cameras, but they all require a separate monitor and need extra gear to be viewed in more than one location. With a network camera, not only can we watch the kid from any computer in the house, but relatives can watch too, over the internet. And all I need to do to set it up is plug it in and set the IP address.

There are actually quite a few network cameras available if you don't need a high-speed camera. Most have a built-in webserver, and several run a version of embedded linux. My personal favorite (and Ed's) is the Panasonic KX-HCM10 which can be had for as low as $329.99. The Axis and Samsung cameras are pretty cool too, if you can afford them.

Other cameras include the StarDot NetCam, which is also available from ThinkGeek (along with the Axis 2100 and 2120 cameras) and the IQeye cameras.

The real advantage to these is that you can simply plug them into your network and watch [whatever] through your web browser. My interest stems from my upcoming need to be able to work and keep an eye on a baby sleeping at the same time. There are, of course, baby monitors that come with little TV's or that plug into your television, and the annoying X10 cameras, but they all require a separate monitor and need extra gear to be viewed in more than one location. With a network camera, not only can we watch the kid from any computer in the house, but relatives can watch too, over the internet. And all I need to do to set it up is plug it in and set the IP address.

My hs calc instructor would disagree with you. He was convinced that I couldn't add, subtract or divide. On one problem he noticed that I had something like 24/4=9 and at a later step fixed the problem. Thats when he figured out I didn't do decimal. He also taught the Fortran class and knew octal as well as I knew hex. After that he would only deduct a bit if I slipped into base 16. At the start of the next school year, he gave us a quiz to see how much trig we rememberd. There were questions involving taylor series and such and calculating things like. After a summer of building a fast floating point trig library for the 6809, I knew the stuff quite well but I did all the work in hex floating point and then converted to decimal. I got 99 points out of 100 since he deducted a point for doing it hex and not octal or deciaml. Its the higest any one had ever scroed on that test. Too bad the rest of my scores weren't as good.

My first semester Calc in college, the instructors rules were simple. If you write the software your self you can use it. I got an HP-28C and procedded to write the software. Since professor Freed was a good programmer, he insisted I explain how things worked. Then he changed the rules, you had to build the hardware too. Got as far as booting the 32016 cpu but never got the second board built that would fit in a handheld case.

Does anyone know of a supplier of side rules? I want one. You would think "think geek" would have one. click here to search their site for one. maybe they will get the hint.

What's even more annoying is equipment that requires the Audio (read: royalty) CD-Rs, even when there's no reason to... Like that nifty Terapin VCD recorder that they sell at Thinkgeek. It requires the digital audio consumer CD-Rs (which is another royal step, I think) when I make a Audio CD or a VCD. Not all Audio CD-Rs work in it, only ones that say "for consumer".

In other words, I have to give money to support N'Suck, even if I'm making a VCD of a broadcast TV programs. The Supreme Court (in the BetaMax decision) says I have the right to timeshift Buffy episodes by recording them... but somebody got to Terapin, and now I have to pay a DART royalty to the Backstreet Boys in order to do so.

I say "somebody got to Terapin" because the VCD feature didn't always require consumer audio CD-Rs. It looks like a recent change. Some of the manual says you can use computer (no royalty) CD-Rs or consumer CD-R, and some of the manual is stickered over so that it says you can only use consumer CD-Rs.

It's like what John Gilmore says in What's Wrong With Copy Protection... the RIAA and the MPAA are conspiring to make sure that equipment that lets us fully exercise our fair use rights never reaches the market. Or if it does, that they are least get a big cut.

However, despite all this, the Terapin recorder is still the greatest Christmas present I got, even if the blank "audio CD-R's for consumer" are $0.80.

Now all I need to do it hack it so that it accepts regular (read: no royalty) CD-Rs. Anybody working on new PROMs for this thing?

A 20G usb hot-swap/PNP drag-n-drop LINUX compatible MP3 player!?!?
look here!
This little puppy has been at http://www.thinkgeek.com for a long time.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/electronics/5784.sh tml

I do admit that I've never used it, but I'm sure if it didn't work, TG would've trashed it long ago. :)
~BS

Maybe they got it wrong and forgot a decimal point. That must be it! These HDs are just like RAM. $2.50 for 1 gig. It's funny, RAM is cheaper than these dirves.

What's even more annoying is equipment that requires the Audio (read: royalty) CD-Rs, even when there's no reason to... Like that nifty Terapin VCD recorder that they sell at Thinkgeek. It requires the digital audio consumer CD-Rs (which is another royal step, I think) when I make a Audio CD or a VCD. Not all Audio CD-Rs work in it, only ones that say "for consumer".

In other words, I have to give money to support N'Suck, even if I'm making a VCD of a broadcast TV programs. The Supreme Court (in the BetaMax decision) says I have the right to timeshift Buffy episodes by recording them... but somebody got to Terapin, and now I have to pay a DART royalty to the Backstreet Boys in order to do so.

I say "somebody got to Terapin" because the VCD feature didn't always require consumer audio CD-Rs. It looks like a recent change. Some of the manual says you can use computer (no royalty) CD-Rs or consumer CD-R, and some of the manual is stickered over so that it says you can only use consumer CD-Rs.

It's like what John Gilmore says in What's Wrong With Copy Protection... the RIAA and the MPAA are conspiring to make sure that equipment that lets us fully exercise our fair use rights never reaches the market. Or if it does, that they are least get a big cut.

However, despite all this, the Terapin recorder is still the greatest Christmas present I got, even if the blank "audio CD-R's for consumer" are $0.80.

Now all I need to do it hack it so that it accepts regular (read: no royalty) CD-Rs. Anybody working on new PROMs for this thing?

Thats right, this is on topic.

Here is a link informing /. (or is that \.) readers about the effects (or is that affects) of "sperm swallowing". The link is here (or is that here).

BTW moderators, this is ontopic, and... have I ever told you how great you look in your Think Geek t-shirts?

As a member of Generation X, I was stoked to see that wearable computers are now available ("Hey Gen-Xers: Wearable Stuff!", Maxim, March 2002). ThinkGeek would have taken two days to deliver, so I hopped in my X-Terra and cruised down to Brookstone with my S.O. (she wanted to check out the genital jewelry).

That night while I was fisting her ("How to fist anyone!", Maxim, July 2001) our nipple ring walkie-talkies touched each other briefly, long enough to send an arc through all of our body piercings (I have 13, she has 22). Bummer! My roommates wanted to know what all the commotion was, so we told 'em someone got eaten by a croc on Survivor ("Lie--it's okay!", Maxim, January 2001). Yeah. Anyway we now have to get the burn marks taken out of our tribal tats, get some piercings redone, buy a new snowboard (bummer!), and replace the American flag that got burnt when my girl exploded--gotta support the troops so we don't have to start speaking Afghani! Although I would like to smoke some Afghani right about now...Huh huh.

Just want to remind all my peeps to play it safe when your fisting your girl, and don't forget to vote

Anyone know if thing is very loud?

I think I know just what you need

hey hey, porn is very popular & it survies w/greeeat success (I myself have several memberships to sites that have been in busisness for years). So if we took thee "business model" of pr0n sites, we could keep the neato sites like slash & goatse up forever & there creators "in" sports cars, fancy clothes, & women so they would be happy & produce better content (it's win/win!!)

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Since I post at -1 Feel Free to Use P2P Moderation&copy

i got a lot. i love still living with mom :)

from thinkgeek:

binary blanket

"code poet" tshirt

oldschool "you are dumb" tshirt

"i took the red pill" tshirt

(damn, was hoping for the power sign one. oh well.)

neuromancer

cryptonomicon cds:

vnv nation - genesis.1 and genesis.2

poe - haunted (to go with house of leaves that i bought myself for my birthday :) calenders:

tall skyscrapers

mini elvis

normal sized marilyn monroe

my room is SO not big enough to justify three calenders! but mom thought they were cool, so i ain't complaining. misc.

glittery floating star candles

three mini tabasco sauce containers

badass pizza cutter (one of the long ones that you just push down), all shiny and sleek and modern

chinese calligraphy set (wish i had nice paper to use it on!

betty boop magnet and best of all, the computer goodies!

audigy platinum

and in two or three months, when it gets here (can't complain, it's only $175 cause my best friend works for electronics boutique).... geforce 3 ti 500 ^_^ JOY!

now to take the computer apart and throw in my sound card and cry because my speakers won't do it justice....

These images would look nice on a calendar, assuming they were blown up to the proper resolution/size. I wonder if we'll be able to get them on Thinkgeek anytime soon.

I especially like the one with the huge solar flare :).

Is there any possibility that ThinkGeek would give bulk pricing on their Anti-RIAA stickers??

I for one would love to slap these everywhere I could, but at $1.50 a pop, that not feasible for my budget.

The Terapin Mine Handheld is under $550 from ThinkGeek and it has 10GB of space. Connectivity via USB, 10Mbps Ethernet, PCMCIA.

Also has stereo audio and (still) video out.

Why pay $900 for this when you can have so much more for less?

You obviously don't visit the right audiophile websites. Try $2400 for speaker cable.

Besides, no audiophile in their right mind would be caught dead buying crap from Monster Cable. Sheesh! Not when there is stuff even more expensive out there. :)

However, in all seriousness. A lot of these audiophile components do have some basis in fact. The problem is that they take the fact and extend it with a more is better philosophy. The more being price, rather than actual substance.

Quality cables do make a difference. We know this is the case with ethernet cables, although you don't need to spend what Monster asks for ethernet cables. Now I did replace the cables on my CD player from the ones that came in the box to Monster Cables I paid $20 for and it honestly did make a noticeable difference in sound. Now I might have seen the same benefit from a $10 pair of cables, who knows. But moving to $900 cables very likely has diminishing returns.

On the otherhand the more expensive cables do have the benefit that they look cool. Some people are willing to spend a lot of money for something that looks cool but adds no real substance.

It's also not surprising that a mechanical device such as a CD transport may be susceptible to vibration. But again, do you need to spend $1,000 to properly isolate it? Maybe not setting the CD player on top of the speakers is enough?

Really I'm surprised you didn't mention the myth of the Green Marker.

Don't get me wrong. I love my Tivo. Works so much better for me than a VCR. I can't count the number of shows I've missed because I forgot to program the VCR, or I made some minor mistake in the programming process (when is it on? which tape has enough room? did i set up the weekly recording list properly? did I remember to put in the right tape and push the right button before I left for work? should I leave the clock on manual and risk a blackout, or did KTEH finally fix their sync box?). Not to mention shows I never knew about because scanning TV listings is boring.

So I go through some menus and just tell the Tivo to record this show or that. And it does. Unless the Tivo has already decided to record it on its own. Perfection, no?

No. There's still too much that can go wrong. Browse through the Tivo forum and you'll find dozens of posts from people hassling with weird problems. Disk errors. Software bugs. Signal acquisition failures. System crashes.

The awful truth is that DVRs are not consumer appliances. They're mutated PCs that are sold bundled with a TV listing database service. I can cope with that -- but then, I've been second-guessing neurotic computer systems for longer than I care to think about. (If I got one of those T shirts, a lot of people would have to dust off their typewriters.) And I still get screwed sometimes when a software upgrade screws up my box and I miss a bunch of shows before I impose a fix through a combination of persistence, intuition, and blind luck. It would be a lot easier of they didn't try to hide the basic platform from the user. But then, they'd never get backing if they didn't pretend this was a consumer item, not a hacker toy.

Perhaps Replay TV is better. (The basic technology does seem to be a little better thought out.) Perhaps TiVo would be better if they didn't keep doing new software releases. I doubt it though. Everybody has to use the same basic off-the-shelf technology to sell this toy at a reasonable price. So we're stuck with immature, kludged together technology. If you can cope with that, OK. Otherwise, stick with your VCR.

All that being said, they're isn't a lot of difference between Tivo and ReplayTV. Once you factor in the lifetime subscription for a Tivo (which you have no choice about, unless you plan to smash the Tivo exactly 19 months after you buy it) the prices are the same. Features are pretty similar. (There are claims that Tivo is deliberately trying to make it hard to not watch commercials, but I have little trouble skipping them.) Tivo has an active hacker community (even aftermarket upgraders), but Replay technology strikes me as more extensible, with its built-in IP support.

A major difference is that Tivo is part of the entertainment industry, while SonicBlue is an outsider. That's not a clear plus for either one -- Tivo boxes are less likely to be orphaned, but Replay boxes have functionality that isn't dictated by Hollywood lawyers.

Bottom line -- if you must buy a DVR, buy the one that has the features you like and you find easiest to use.

To paraphrase a Think Geek Fortune (not one of mine):

> I married a Geek. What did you get stuck with?

A Restraining Order.

~
Geek chicks are nearly impossible to come by. It should be taken as a blessing and not a commonallity.

Linux advocates love Tux, the penguin commonly used as a mascot for Linux. Why this is, few people with taste are able to figure out. However, considering what usually passes for taste in the "geek" cliques, this is not suprising. The original drawings of Tux look like they were crafted by a lowland gorilla with spasmatic gas pain. In future renditions, the lowland gorilla must have gained access to Lightwave. Apparently about two seconds of thought was put into the choice of this important marketing tool, because it couldnt sell food to a famine victim.

Even the very choice of a penguin was severely misguided. What in the world does a penguin have to do with a unix-like operating system? Obviously, nothing. Might as well of used a crude drawing of an impacted colon. What we have here is a serious branding problem. Solution? Sanrio.

Sanrio has the ability to sell anything to anyone by simply sticking a picture of a mouthless cat upon it. Waffle makers, plush animals, vibrators, you name it. This is the direction that we want to move in. Product is less important than image. If Microsoft wants to fight with marketing rather than quality product, we can take that battle to them. With characters like Nyago, Robowan, and Landry, Dominance over Microsoft products could be assured in a matter of months. No one could stop the juggernaut of Sanrio-branded Linux cuteness.

You know this to be true, and this is advice you ignore at your own peril.

Don't you get it? They're afraid because these pirate-types are now paying the same amount for Windows XP as they are for that joint finnish/british operation to take over the world. And as with everything else, the worth of software *must* be measured by the amount you pay for it.

And here it is.

This is the best approach I can think of.

Start with one of these.

Then, with a couple of 20 cm bits of duct tape, attache one of these to the front.

(Note: ThinkGeek and Slashdot are both owned by Va Linux)

from http://www.thinkgeek.com/slashdot/