This is the coolest toy I've ever seen. Want.

Huh. My boss is gonna be happy. All those servers we keep buying to run VMWare ESX server have expensive Intel Xeons in them. If we stop buying those silly CPU things, we'll save buckets!

Who in their right mind looks at a Britney Spears album as music?

The album isn't dead. It might die, as you predict, but if it does we'll still have everything between 1950 and 20-something to enjoy.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm halfway through The Decemberists' The Crane Wife, a brilliant album from 2006.

No linky?

Well anyway, I agree that the first thing anyone should do with this is to delete Vista and install Ubuntu or something. But honestly, 1024x600 on 5" screen? That's hovering around "unusable".

My impression is that what you described is unique to the deaf community. I've never heard of any other community of disabled people being so protective of their condition.

Strangest post so far today!

That's fricken sweet. Pity it wouldn't work with my trike, though. Why do I gotta be different?

Here's what you'll be agreeing to if you take advantage of this offer:

"Conditional $250 Discount

The Price listed above for this phone includes an instant $250 discount from Amazon.com. You agree to repay this $250 discount to Amazon.com if, during the six-month period following the activation date or renewal date of your existing contract, you: (1) fail to pay your balance due each month on time; (2) fail to maintain your account in good standing; (3) disconnect the line of service; (4) transfer the phone to another line of service; (5) change your service rate plan, including canceling or removing required PDA, BlackBerry, or smartphone features after your product has shipped; or (6) use this line of service to replace an existing account with the carrier. The discount is available only if you are activating a new non-substitute line of service or extending an existing line of service. If you do not follow these rules, you authorize Amazon.com to charge your credit card $250 as reimbursement of the discount without need for further approval."

This is all Cory's fault.

In any case, get your tickets ASAP. Air fairs are about to shoot up at least 15%; probably more.

I don't see why it would be dangerous in a garage. Unless it leaks a lot.

Got a first aid kit?

Cutest semi-ambulatory robot based on a helicopter swashplate I've seen all week!

Thanks for the heads up. I grabbed the N800.

And so it begins.

Not too long before we'll be seeing these in PDAs and smart phones, I reckon. Pretty darned nifty.

Now if they can just work out the holographic projector. Help me Obi-wan...

"Even now, though, I'd love to know how she got from one side of the city to the other."

Not trying to be a smart ass here, but isn't ambulation the simple answer? Am I missing something?

They should stop tempting us with so many damned new gadgets, and also build them to last (like the old days I've heard about). Then this problem wouldn't be so bad.

Driving in a straight line: the trick is to steer only with the steering trim on the radio, rather than the actual stick/wheel.

You're welcome.

Do my ears get hairy when I'm old?

I absolutely love good impersonations; they're my favorite form of comedy. But there's one problem with impersonations: you have to be familiar with the person being parodied, or it just doesn't work for you. Having never seen a Jobs speech, this guy does nothing for me. I'm sad.

Since no other camera nerds have chimed in, I'll be the pedant who corrects you Joel. You said "...they might be able to take a swing [at] the Canon G9 and other rangefinders", but neither the G9 nor the DP-1 are rangefinders. Indeed there are only two digital rangefinders that I can think of - the Epson RD-1 and the Leica M8.

As a pixel-peeping photographer, I'm pretty excited about the availability of this camera, even though I can't afford it. All it's flaws notwithstanding, it is a dream come true for those of us who've pined for big-sensor quality in a compact.

John, yes, for sure. But for each single bot, you could cut down its output from 1440 a day to just a few accounts per service per day. Or even less, if you make the rules tighter.

If may estimates of the circumference of the track and the revolutions per second are close, then it's doing about 240mph. But something seems fishy about this video.

Admittedly I haven't read the article yet, but based on the info in this post:

If one bot can make 1440 hotmail accounts a day per machine, couldn't the hotmail (and others) people make a huge difference by simply not allowing more than, say 3 new accounts to be created per day from a given IP?

This is awesome. Can someone please submit the audioholics article to digg, etc? I have no memberships on those sites but I would like to see this get the biggest following possible. Eat bad press and die, Monster!

I only wish more people had the knowledge to be able to stand up to the world's jerks in the way Denke is doing. The world seriously needs this. Legal bullying should not be allowed.

Seems more like a parasite than a predator.

That was pretty funny. (But #1 is right; I probably wouldn't have laughed if I was actually there and saw him acting like that)

A brief search didn't turn up anything conclusive, but it sounds like he was a manic depressive so I'm guessing that's what killed him.

Either that or he was tazed.

Some people have mentioned public transport systems which have the odd ticket inspector who will fine you if you don't have a ticket. That's not really an honor system, when you think about it.

Wow, that Sunday NY Times must be a fat paper. 5 bucks! I hope it has a lot of comics. (Left coaster here, and not a paper reader anyway)

Hmm, that is a downer. Oh well, can't afford it anyway!

#8 - Cloudbook? How is that relevant? We're talking handhelds here. The Cloudbook is in a totally different category.

I never get it when people find out you're shopping for something and suggest something completely irrelevant. "You want a shaver? Hey, you should check out these lawn mowers!"

#7: "why is this o.k."

'Cause hillbillies don't have the innernets.

Holy shit! Judging by the Beschizza and Brownlee posts I've read today, this is gonna be awesome.

On a side note, that former genius supermodel - now brainless - turns out to be just as fuckable as before, once her skull is stapled back together.

Joel, you've been my favorite tech writer ever since your Gizmodo days. I love how you juxtapose the irrational desirability with the practical unusability of this (sorry - I'm no writer - but you get my drift). I agree with you and I want one because it's freakin cute. But if I'm going to blow a bunch of cash on a tiny computer, I think the HTC Shift might be more to my liking (see Dynamism).

#3 - seriously? It looks almost nothing like the Atari.

Okay, which boingboing reader asked this question to the seller:

Q: Are the cars in working condition?
A: It depends on what type of work you want them to do.

Passion flowers are crazy cool, and so are Carpenter bees. But that ain't much of a photo.

No. Text in all caps is annoying because it feels like being shouted at.

Interesting stuff though, thanks!

I'm surprised she didn't include "not be your brother's keeper".

My wife has trouble differentiating these two things, which can make discussions (especially debates) with her difficult. It also causes her to just say some darn silly things. Or at least, I think that's what causes her to say silly things. But I might be confusing causality with covariation.

"Officials are trying to decide whether to file charges"

WHAT??? TRYING TO DECIDE?! WTF! A STUPID STUPID STUPID IDIOT KILLED HIS WIFE AND YOU HAVE TO ***THINK*** ABOUT WHETHER TO FILE CHARGES?

If this guy doesn't get manslaughter, I can't go on living in this country.

Amazing how a company selling multi-million dollar realestate has a web site with an extremely Web 1.0 feel: http://www.missilebases.com/

And in keeping with their out-datedness, they are apparently still living in the century the properties were built. From the front page: "These historic defense structures are the castles of this 20th Century."

This is creepy stuff. And very sci-fi.

The current president of the United States of America says more stupid things than that list in one week. And he doesn't have the excuse of being old.

Joel, I think perhaps a more enlightened (oh yes I did) way to ponder this question is this: why are some things so cheap?

The answer, in many cases, is production volume.

So until the production volumes of projector lamps reach sufficiently high figures, they are going to cost a lot to make.

Wow!! This blows me away. People are talking about how cool Dextre is, but *this* thing is the future. This is amazing -- and I'm not talking about how anthropomorphic it is, although that in itself is freaky. This robot's ability to stay on its feet is fantastic. This is the future. Inspiring.

Endless hours of Wii playing do leave me feeling weary.

A comic I saw on Comedy Central Presents, whose name eludes me now, refers to his ex-girlfriend as "the X-Box".

@the previous two comments: uh, I don't think anyone is pretending the video is real. Obviously actors are playing out the parts of the people in the alleged recording. Think about it.

This is up there with the most stupid civil engineering ideas I've ever heard of.

I want the quietest road possible. If doing the speed limit makes noise, I will do anything but the speed limit.

A far more sensible idea would be to have the road make an annoying noise when you speed.

Utterly ridiculous.