Technology is heroin.

Nicholas Carr notices Daniel Markham's latest post.

Digital photo urn.

Maybe a different shape or something... nah.

Alligator skin Xbox 360.

H. R. Giger-esque mod. Great work.

Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 available.

Over here. All kinds of improvements.

Help menu.

One of the most amusing I've ever seen, from iSquint, a free iPod video converter for Mac OS X. Great software, too. Click to enlarge.

New five-ton computer.

A steampunk's wet dream.

Regarding backups.

Dan Benjamin on backups.

Bugbots.

The future of warfare. The video would be funny if it wasn't so horrifying.

"The Prince Machiavelli of Technology."

Om Malik on the Microsoft/Yahoo endgame.

Computers go on sale in Cuba.

For the first time ever.

"Too ugly to be gay."

Charles Jade's lame rationalization of a ho-hum purchase gives all of us non-cult Mac users a bad name. When I miss Justin Long in Apple's commercials, it's depressing. Smug, stand-offish, and petit bourgeois, to say the least.

What's wrong with this sentence: "Walking around San Francisco, inquiries concerning the origin of the Mac bag are a constant source of personal amusement, especially since only 50 Mac bags were made"?

Back to Starbucks with you until you master English and American sentence construction as evidence of your high taste. And untuck that sweatshirt, man. I _can_ make a bag like that.

Happy birthday, World Wide Web.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee: the web is "still in its infancy."

Exhaustive list of low-cost ultraportables.

Via Brad Linder. None of them is a MacBook Air of course, but they're light and cheap, and Linux is an option.

Desktop clutter art competition.

Gizmodo's contest for best desktop clutter art has a winner.

Conspicuous consumption.

24kt gold-plated Macbooks.

Rob Griffiths on the iDIY.

A Macworld editor rolls his own Mac. I guess if you just have to do it....

Reminds me of why I pay extra for AppleCare on a production machine.

Another useless accessory for the Macintosh.

Everyone thinks that because you own a Mac you have a ton of disposable income (hence, the market in $19.95+ shareware that performs tasks you can do in the Terminal). But I would suspect there are a lot of folks like me in different lines of work who make a commitment to save for quite a while to buy a new Mac in order to own one outright. Apple knows this well -- we helped haul them through the dark, decade-old days back in the 90's.

And now there's this. Oh, the MagStay PRO. Where you can hide tiny things, smaller footprint, keeps it safer in the laptop bag, etc.

I own a late-2007 MacBook Pro, and let me tell you nothing short of the Richter Scale is going to dislodge the stock MagSafe adapter, unless someone kicks it out with some physics behind them. As intended. The real advance in power adapter technology was made by Apple on the MacBook Air, where it connects flush in relation to the horizontal axis of the hardware, as opposed to sticking out the side. Savvy engineering.

Besides, I put my machine inside a Marware sleeve inside a Samsonite hard case (I live in Alaska, and you can fall on the ice), so I'm a little outside the loop on latte protection for the Mac.

If you're worried about trip protection on your portables, Apple's stock MagSafe on the Pros and Macbooks should make the grade. If you're really worried, we'll be seeing new machines of both kinds by summer, with serious redesigns. Just get one now if you need one: both portables are great.

And if you're worried past this, move the notebook to a safer place.

Terrifying Microsoft Vista video.

Scary-bad internal Microsoft video for Vista in the enterprise. The quintessence of Microsoft: bad taste.

Dude, you're getting a Dell!

The usual crap hardware, along with a drunken, stalking tech. Best Dell story ever.

I've never had this happen with an Apple tech. But then, I just keep telling them I'm John Mayer.

The new nomads.

Good article in The Economist about the ubiquity of wireless.