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NeoCode writes: "This articles chronicles a day in the life of two hackers. Seems like a reporter anonymously paid these hackers to log in their typical day. In the article, they talk about how they fool people with their spams and phreaking scams. Its in quite a bit of detail in terms of what these guys do to make money (and tons of it). Obviously these guys are breaking the law and nibbling on innocent/naive users. Looks like AOL and other ISPs still have to beef up their filters to stop spamming." Not a lot of details, but it's kinda interesting.

Let's start this off with some violence! BigBlockMopar answered the age-old question: what happens when a tank runs over a hard drive. NeoCode sent the The Illustrated Guide To Breaking Your Computer, and finally, matticus discovered The Overclockerz Store is selling burnt-up athlons/durons made into keychains. Now that we've got that out of our system, lets get some schoolin' by learning about the facts of life: spankweasel sent in the invisible condom. Now math: Jonathan Hayward sent us A four-dimensional maze. And some history: John Willemin sent us a nostalgia inducing Microsoft Ad from the days of yore. After a hard day of education, why not travel home on your lawn mower powered hoverboard at a cool 15mph? (thanks LenZ) Then we can play some dot-com monopoly (thanks to gmag3) and see what's on TV. MTO sent us Trailers for the Dune miniseries, and David Hume sent an abc article about Vinyl Video which attempts to generate images from your records. Finally, we better check the weather channel to find out what the weather is gonna be like ... on Mars (thanks noctis).

Quantax asks: "I have an Osborn 'luggable' computer which I need to get rid of due to space considerations. However, I consider this much too valuable to be tossed in the trash. Are there any 'Computer Museums' or exhibits located in the NYC area that I could give this to? I would consider shipping it out of the area if the place really wanted it." Aside from NYC, are there any other such museums in the U.S. and around the world?