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The Mac Made of Lego

Posted by michael on from the no-user-serviceable-parts-inside dept.

Anonymous writes "We've had lots of PC based case mods, but I've hardly hear of any Mac ones! I guess Mac owners like their boxes how they are. Until they break; the BBC are running a story about a Mac owner who converted an old Apple by modding the machine with lego."

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  1. His girlfriend's site... by mrklin · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    From his page:

    "A surprising number of people have asked about the doctoral thesis my partner wrote on this machine. Just to clarify, it was written using it, not about it (i.e. it was about feminist philosophy, and not what nerds do in their spare time)."

    Her site is VERY interesting.

    1. Re:His girlfriend's site... by theLOUDroom · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Just to clarify, it was written using it, not about it (i.e. it was about feminist philosophy, and not what nerds do in their spare time)."

      Too bad, a whole thesis about a single case mod would be quite an achievement. Instead we get this:

      About half of you have vaginas, and about half of you don't. So what kind of difference is that? And about half of you will be called Ms or Miss or Mrs, and about half of you won't. And so what kind of difference is that? And what kind of difference is there between these differences?

      Wow, how interesting. The rest is just your typical artsy biology vs. free thought crap. What a waste of time.

      Really, check this out.... And that is why men and women live out different gender roles; not because it is in their nature to do so, but because something in the society is causing it. In an ideal society, these gender-neutral rational capacities and so on would mean that men and women would

      WTF is wrong with some people? Men and women are different. Some of this difference is genetic. Deal already. Men are better suited for some tasks, and women are better suited for others. Finally there is a third set of tasks where both sexes perform equally.

      Blah, blah, blah. Society. Blah.

      There is nothing interesting here. No reasearch. No unique ideas.

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  2. Re:first lego post by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    What's a mook?

    Misspelling words is completely different from disobediently refusing to obey the dictates of a litigous European corporation.

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