Nice! How long before we see a steampunk HDD degausser?

BTW, the OP is fantastic, Joel, almost as good as your musings on the home doughnut machine.

Well, that beats mine: 5" PSone screen, rechargeable battery pack, plays cartridges... but it's about the size of 2 Atari Lynxes to accomodate the original NES mobo.

Knowing this was coming from Lian-Li, when my Firefox live bookmark cut off the title: "Make your 360 quieter, cooler, four times the..."

I expected that last word to be "price."
It is purty...

A quick search reveals that Lian-Li now does sell some cases that cost less than a brand-name complete PC.

In many places, gas stations are pre-pay only. Doesn't affect me too much, it's just strange to get in a situation where someone is unwilling to take my cash.

Heh, not sure a lawyer would defend anyone's right to spend their literal tons of pennies... might be afraid their fees would be repaid in all coin!

Employees regularly take home cash when working for tips. The wallet is what becomes whomping big when you choose to take the 100 $1 bills instead of trading up.

Uh, do you have a source on that, #4 Pitch?
Seems to me a lot of gas stations won't accept anything bigger than a $20 after a certain time of day, to avoid running out of smaller bills and being unable to make change.
I always thought it was ridiculous, the bills specifically say "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private."

LOL @ #29, my female friend had the same experience.
We unknowingly partook of a concentrated plant.
My world rendered itself in vector graphics and I was drawn out of the house, but the doorknob was dodging my every reach.
In retrospect, maybe it was better we didn't make it to the outside world.