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Paul Thurrott’s reporting that Microsoft’s going to drop the three-app-at-a-time limitation from Windows 7 Starter—the cheaper Windows 7 geared toward netbooks. He doesn’t know if they’re going let you change your wallpaper with Starter though. No, really. [WinSuperSite]
What you are looking at here is the very first image ever taken of the surface of Mars. It was acquired by NASA’s Mariner 4 using a television camera, and rendered using crayons. Look closer:
Looks like a billion gazillion television screens, thundering their nonsense and babbling at the same time in some gigantic art installation. Or maybe one of those crazy LED art projects in a skyscraper. It’s better than all that, put together.
Rob at BoingBoing’s updated his OS X netbook compatibility chart, which makes it easy to see which netbooks are perfect for hackintoshing and which aren’t—a perfect Memorial Day weekend project using the dearly departed Mahoney’s definitive how-to guide. [BoingBoing Gadgets]
Michael Anderson Godwin was a murderer. He was awaiting South Carolina’s electric chair in 1989 when he decided to fix his TV set while sitting on his cell’s metal toilet. You can probably see where this is going.
A bunch of people running the UK version of Cupcake on their US phones are getting some kind of Cupcake update right now, though no one’s sure what it does. Could Cupcake hit sooner than next week for everybody else? [Phandroid]
Gort and Caprica 6 pulled out victories in the final round of the Heavyweight and Humanoid division battles. Just for fun we are pitting them against one another in a final, championship round. Which machine is the deadliest of all-time?
Disney technicians are hard at work on an incredibly-lifelike robotic version of President Obama. Dick Cheney is reportedly working on a virus to cause the robot to fail.
Nintendo has traditionally ignored the iPhone as a competitor, claiming that the DS and iPhone were chasing different markets. Now Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has given in the reality of commerce and started the smack talk.
