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Prefer ripping apart older electronics than purchasing new ones? You’re gonna love this mod. Essentially, you’ll be ripping an Eee PC apart, jamming into into a wood frame and placing it on your wall. How is this better than dropping $100 on a digital photo frame at Best Buy? Simple: You can easily display slideshows of pictures from Flickr, Picasa, ...

Choose your method of death. Quick and painless with a simple shot to the head, or slow and potentially agonizing, featuring clogged arteries and clotted organs. One of the methods is much more delicious than the other. The choice is yours. The BA-K-47 is just awesome. What else can possibly be said about an AK-47 made out of bacon? It’s ...

I’m sick of it. I can feel the steely gaze from a mass of haters as I whip out my iPhone. Their looks say one thing. “Poser!” Like I just joined the iPhone bandwagon yesterday. I’ve been rocking the iPhone since its debut, brotha. I’m not some sheep. As a person who totally derives his self-worth based on the opinion ...

Oh boy. Look what we have here! Some brand spankin’ new Final Fantasy XIII footage has hit the YouTubes and this time around, it’s no pre-rendered bullshit. No, sir. This time, we have some live gameplay that was captured by an adoring fan. After watching the video for about five minutes, I have to officially state that I am excited ...

Part Speak and Spell, part Guitar Hero controller, this device is the ultimate in circuit-bending. Riddled with knobs, switches and a 1/4″ output, the Speak N’ Spellbinder will no doubt crank out some of the craziest glitch your precious ears have ever heard. Don’t believe me? Hit the jump for a video of the madness.

We’re fed up. The cable companies have subjected us to non-stop bullshit over the past 5 to 10 years, depending on your provider. Comcast, RCN, COX, Time Warner and all the others are constantly raising our fees, not offering enough channels in HD and this time around, trying to cap our Internet bandwidth. Time Warner Cable (TWC) has been experimenting ...

You like that? Two Microsoft products in one title. Boo yah! Here are some new pictures that are supposedly of the ZuneHD. While they are plausible, the quality is such shit that I can’t help but think they’ve been Photoshopped. Here’s the “rumored details” or whatever bullshit you want say will come with this unconfirmed device: The ZuneHD will have ...

Want to get rich on Wall Street? eBay just announced that it’s taking Skype public next year. Read the full details by clicking the link. Link

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Once, in Kindergarten, I built a diorama using cotton balls, crayons, construction paper and Elmer’s glue. It looks like shit but boy was I proud of it. Today, I think I’ll leave the diorama-making to Thomas Doyle, a guy who produces true works of art using miniature figures and houses that would normally be found on a train set. Click ...