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iGiveUp

If you’ve ever had the hard drive in your iPod die, you’ve seen the little sad iPod icon on the screen. This is the actual sad iPod that icon is based on. Again, no Photoshoppery here, just lighting.

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Digital toast

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Can you glub glub glub?

I should love Motorola. They’ve got so much to admire: a cool 50-year-old logo. A name that evokes images of 1950s cars and their radios. A history of amazing technical innovations.

But man, their phones are lousy.

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No user serviceable parts inside

My computer’s not working, but I think if I can just open up the processor….

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Optical drive payback

Listen up, drive. You’ve made your last coaster.

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Zip whip

I still have a pile of 100MB Zip disks, even though I no longer have a Zip drive. Think they’d make a nice slaw?

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CTRL + ALT + DAMMIT

It’s been a while, but I finally took another good picture. No trickery here — just a dead keyboard, some nice strobes, and a slightly sore hand.

Earth needs editors

When Computers Edit

Lately I’ve been irritated by newspaper web sites that use a program to cut story teasers to length. As often as not, they make the cut after a period that doesn’t end a sentence.

VOICE OVER (GROWLING): There’s a new BBC, and it’s kickin’ ass…

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Portrait? Sure!

Gina, a senior majoring in photography at San Jose State University, is the mother of two young boys.

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Fortune for the new year

From an Asian message wafer at Eric’s comes this fortune so nice, I had to mat it twice.