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gadgets.boingboing.net - 10/13/2008

Boing Boing Gadgets explains: "Just How The Hell Did I End Up In Infomercia?" - Boing Boing Gadgets

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infomercia_badge.gif The Setting Welcome to Infomercia, a massive super-conglomerate turned government on an alternate Earth in which indiscriminate technological consumerism and promiscuous corporate partnerships have become the backbone of an oppressive, Orwellian dystopia. In Informercia, ...

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gadgets.boingboing.net - 10/9/2008

MacBook in Oct. 14 event ad is 13.3", aluminum, and not the MacBook Air - Boing Boing Gadgets

— gadgets.boingboing.net — applenotebookevent.jpg It's hard to tell from the gloomy marketing shot, but the Apple logo is about 1.5... inches wide on my MacBook Pro. From that, this machine would appear to be under 13 inches wide, which would suggest a 13.3" diagonal. The edges, ... (more) MacBook in Oct. 14 event ad is 13.3", aluminum, and ...

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gadgets.boingboing.net - 10/15/2008

Microsoft announces 20 editions of Windows 7! (j/k) - Boing Boing Gadgets

— gadgets.boingboing.net — Microsoft7.jpg Earlier today, Microsoft confirmed that its next operating system, codenamed Windows 7, would in fact be... called just that when it hits shelves at some point in the next few years. Good on 'em, I say: a simple, no-nonsense name suggests ... (more) Microsoft announces 20 editions of Windows 7! (j/k) - ...

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gadgets.boingboing.net - 10/8/2008

A strange and wonderful wooden safe - Boing Boing Gadgets

— gadgets.boingboing.net — bandsawsafe01-full.jpg I've read the description of Alex Schlegel's beautiful wooden safe several times, and I still have... no idea quite how it works. The 13 drawers of this band-saw box rotate rather than open outward. Objects for safekeeping are ... (more) A strange and wonderful wooden safe - Boing Boing ...

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