Yes, people, this is the iFixit teardown of a Blendtec Total blender — the ones from those Will It Blend? videos that we basically stopped writing about sometime in early 2007. It’s nice to see you again, Tom. Sorta.

The guts in this teardown are decidedly cruder than the carefully-designed gadget innards typical to these kinds of teardowns, which makes sense: this isn’t a pocket-sized piece of careful industrial design, this is a commercial grade blender. It transcends gadgetry by powderising it, or something!

And even though the blender is clearly unplugged and, er, disarmed, the whole thing feels like a higher-stakes affair. Maybe it’s the 1500-watt motor or the 28,000rpm rotor, or you know, the blades. [iFixit]

Have you noticed anything different about your inbox this week? Where are all the weirdly threatening chain letters from family members you’ve never met? The hyperventilating urgent FWD: FWD: FWD: messages about Barack Obama’s secret Hellenic Polytheism? Your tri-weekly update on the power of prayer, told through the perspective of your fourth cousin’s cat? They are gone, is where, stemmed at the source. CompuServe Classic is dead.

I won’t try to be elegiac here, since I only really remember CompuServe’s service as that quasi-internetlike thing that my parents would let me use on our Gateway for about two minutes at a stretch, as we watched the minutely charges rack up and I desperately tried to figure out where the hell the games were. But those of you of a different generation vintage, with your own super-numerical email addresses, memories of horrifying, unexpected phone bills and bitterness towards the ungrateful kids of today with their “broadband” and “wireless,” feel free to reflect in the comments. [Basex via Beyond the Beyond]