Watch That Tiny, $74 1.5GHz Android-Powered Thumb-Puter In Action 
When Should You Buy Your Next Gadget? 
How To Destroy The Internet (But Please Don't) 
Aussie IT Pricing Inquiry Now Taking Submissions 
What Are The Most Stylish Laptops And Ultrabooks? 
Laptop Buying Guide 2012: How To Find The Right Laptop For You For the more fashionable readers at Gizmodo (someone? Anyone? Bueller?) comes these Marc Jacobs USB hubs, disguised as ye olde mixtapes. MIXTAPES. You remember them, right?
Under the Freedom of Information Act, the ACLU demanded documents concerning the Customs and Border Protection’s policies for searching laptops and other electronic devices at the United States’ international borders. The first batch of documents is now available. And disturbing.
Yes, a business card that shoots a magazine of 10 pennies with rubber band power will get you noticed – but it probably won’t be the kind of attention you hoped for.
Here’s a Genius Bar horror story for you: Justin Barry, an apparently disgruntled 17-year-old, walked into a Staten Island Apple Store and typed this message on one of the display machines. He’s now facing seven years in prison.
In today’s Remainders: the fastest text messengers in the world; PC sales are up, but the PCs are smaller and cheaper; Calvin and Hobbes’s snowman violence realised; and hacked billboards with hardcore porn bring Moscow traffic to a standstill.
Psystar, insane and actively prosecuted manufacturer of Mac clones and the occasional t-shirt, has filed an appeal of an injunction won by Apple exactly one month ago.
Growing up in upstate New York, I know something about ice, snow and struggling through waist high drifts piled up by the city snow plows with a woefully inadequate Toro snowblower. God, I wish I had some of this crap back then.
