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You may recall the minor hullabaloo around the time of the iPad launch that Chinese company Great Long Brother had released a tablet well before Apples that shares a certain distinctive design. They threatened to sue Apple for mimicking their own P88, though it’d be clear to a purblind marmoset that the P88 was mimicking the iPhone.

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Copy our tablet for your iPad, will you? Well how do you like… this?

You may recall the minor hullabaloo around the time of the iPad launch that Chinese company Great Long Brother had released a tablet well before Apples that shares a certain distinctive design. They threatened to sue Apple for mimicking their own P88, though it’d be clear to a purblind marmoset that the P88 was mimicking the iPhone. Well, things have taken a turn for the absurd

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Copy our tablet for your iPad, will you? Well how do you like… this?

Bad news for the XP diehards out there, hard drive manufacturers are tired of supporting you, and the next generation of controller technology is not going to work properly with DOS and Windows XP users. Of course it won’t be a major issue until 2011, and maybe not even then. It’s been coming for a while now, hard drives are constantly evolving and becoming more efficient, and drive manufacturers want to be freed from the 512 byte sector size

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Hard drive design leaving XP behind

Yesss. [via Reddit ]

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Sir, we who are about to enter sixth grade salute you

Fiverr is a marketplace for gigs that are priced at $5. Essentially, you can sell and buy tasks for $5. So anyone can create a gig for small service on the site, and visitors can accept gigs as well. Gig prices are fixed at $5. Buyers can order gigs and are required to pay for the gig in advance. Fiverr takes $1 off of the $5 fee.

Gigs range from installing WordPress on a server to reading Tarot cards to writing a romantic sonnet. Tasks are divided into categories, including Funny and Bizarre, Social Marketing, Graphics, Writing,Technology, Business, Silly Stuff and Programming.

The idea is kind of brilliant and also entertaining. While you don’t necessarily have assurance that your task will be completed to your standards, you are only shelling out $5 for the task, so it’s not a total loss if the gig falls through or isn’t done well. Fiverr will also post buyer feedback on people who perform tasks. Task performers will be given a positive feedback score, which can be seen by users who are considering hiring them for gigs.

I knew you had to pay a little extra to get Windows , but $100,000 to get Linux on your Mini 10n netbook ? Good lord! What are the manuals written on?

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Dell’s “Linux Tax” is outrageous

Out here in the fields I fight for space meals I get my back into my monkey I don’t need to fight To prove I’m right I don’t need to a carabiner. The folks at ThinkGeek performed the intro to Baba O’Reilly (don’t call it “Teenage Wasteland,” dude) on gear from their store. They’re funny

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Out here in the fields: Baba O’Reilly using gear from ThinkGeek

Dagnabbit! Our secret blogging weapon has been revealed to the public. Now, you too, can run a successful gadget blog from the comfort of your own chair!

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Why Apple should scare you more than Osama Bin Laden

Wow. This young lady is amazingly excited about Wonder Boy and Adventure Island , two crazy games for the Sega Master System and the NES

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Video: Wonder Boy v. Adventure Island

Interesting. For $80, Hammacher Schlemmer will sell you something that you plug into your car’s cigarette lighter to improve your gas mileage “by up to 18%.” There are some caveats, of course

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Increase fuel efficiency with something that plugs into your car’s DC outlet?