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The Panasonic CQ-TX5500D Vacuum Tube CD Reciever. I want. I want bad.

Available at Audiocubes.com for a mere $1,000. C'mon! It's a fricking Vacuum Tube Car Stereo!! Look at the little meters! Yaaaaa!

Intel Tablet PC Centrino Surfboard. Really.

Read more at Gizmodo.

RUNDLL
Error loading C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Program Files\bridge.dll
The specified module could not be found.

This has been the bane of my existence for two months now. Every time I've started my laptop, I've gotten this error message. Thing is, I met three other people with the same problem, all totally randomly. So, when I figured out how to get rid of it, I thought I would share.

Click this, and download the file to your desktop. Then double click it, say Yes to whatever it asks you, and no more bridge.dll! Whee!

If you use this, please leave a comment letting me know it worked for you.

Thanks to Jeremy Kitching for posting info about this on Computing.net.

Holy crap! Apple took a part off of one of its products and put it on another! Better give Steve-O the cover of Newsweek!

This is the Beatsoundz EMPZ II, a pimptacular 256MB MP3 player you can wear around your neck. Somehow I find this to be more interesting.

Couldn't possibly buy one. The uncontrollable giggling every time I needed tape would get me fired. Found at Scope.

This is the Wavac SH-833 150 watt monoblock power amplifier. It costs $350,000. Not a typo. A home stereo amp, a quarter of a million dollars.

Let's do the math.

My 150 watt stereo amp cost $50. It measures roughly half a foot by 1.5 feet by 1.5 feet. That's 1.25 Cubic Feet. I could buy 7000 of those amps (at retail) for $350,000. If I bought that many, I bet we could get wholesale, so we could probably buy 10000 total. That's 12500 cubic feet. That's a cube approximately 23 feet to a side of solid amplifiers, 1.5 gigawatts, or 1,500,000 Watts of Rockin' Stereo Power.

Wavac can kiss my ass.

A digital wristwatch made from tiny Nixie Tubes (the old old school vacuum tubes used for counters and clocks). Can't decide if it's too geeky to even look at, or too cool to not own.

Unfortunately, this model is currently sold out, but a new one is in development (pray for a cooler case/design).

Found at amug.org.

Fun sticker for sale at Jinx. I know a few people who might want this one to stick on their laptops.

Decided to take my desktop PC apart and reinstall Windows, as it has been running slower than any PC ever. Got a close look at the processor, and got this:

Now, the lighting was bad, and my digital camera sucks, so for clarification...it's dirt. About two ounces of dust and dirt and smoke and crap, all from between the vanes in the processor.

I get the feeling it might have affected performance.

A Sony Jumbotron on eBay. $10,000. Oh dear sweet baby Jesus. I don't care that it's attached to a giant-ass scoreboard. Don't care that I can't get it into my house without tearing out a wall. Don't care it costs ten grand. I have to watch Family Guy on this thing!

Konfabulator for Windows is now available! Sweet little customizable thingies for your desktop! Neat!

The Fossil Code Dial watch. Apparently, the little symbols scroll down the watch face, a la The Matrix. I want.

The Porsche Boesendorfer piano. Sweeeeeeet. Found at MoCoLoco.

Spiritual Communication via Nintendo Console?

I want tiny printer.

Needles to tell me how broke I am.

iPod + Rich Bastards = This.

I need the pretty light.

What if someone invented a machine that could cure virtually any disease and was affordable to buy and easy to use? It wouldn't be sold here.

Mostly found through Engadget and Gizmodo.

Y'know, I thought these little Cellboost phone charger thingies were stupid until I went to Austin without my phone charger. Five bucks, totally worth it. Although their home page is way fancier then needed.

As I was gassing up my S.O.'s minivan of doom last weekend in Temple, I found this lighter for a buck. So awesome, I can't explain it. Lighter, plus bright as hell LED flashlight built in. Pros: awesome and lighty. Refillable. Cons: The refill hole is a little too big, so fuel goes everywhere, and you could do serious freezing damage to your hands. Shitty Phonecam Pic by Nikonius. Sold by Novelty Inc.

Found via Cool Hunting.

So I was thinking, how cool what it be to take an old boom box and use it as a PC case? Mount an LCD in the back, a slideout bluetooth keyboard and mouse, and an amp to drive the speakers? How cool would that be?

So anyway, I went looking on eBay for something that would do the trick, and I found this. I have never seen anything as great as this in my life. I want to worship it like a god.

The Secret Lover Collection is a series of greeting cards for that special someone that you're fucking on the side.

Y'know, I'm no Don Juan. I kind of fumble my way through relationships and hope for the best. In other words, I don't have all the answers, and in the past, I've made my mistakes. But seriously: do you want to leave a paper trail?

If you needed hard drive space like I needed hard drive space...well, we'd both need a lot of hard drive space. Buffalo 250GB external hard drive. $150 after $30 rebate. That's almost as cheap as an internal on special. I wish I had more money. So I could buy crap I don't really need in the first place. Ah, Capitalism.

Yes, that's an Interceptor from Mad Max. And it got NO BIDS when put up for sale on eBay.

If there are any eccentric billionaires reading my blog, please buy me this. Please please please.

The Seiko Spectrum SVRD001. The world's first E-Ink wristwatch. Suh. Weet. More info, if you read Japanese.

This will be my next major tech purchase. The iPod will have to wait. Eased DRM means I can import whatever the hell I want on this baby. Comics too. And RSS Feed reader with images. Awe-fricking-some. More at Engadget.

Orb Networks and Sling Media use software and hardware (respectively) to enable its users to stream content from home (i.e. mp3, video, cable). It's a single user/household system and not a peer-to-peer/piracy system. That said....

excerpt from "Television Without Boundaries" by Robin Berger
TV Technology, September 7th, 2005

Dean Garfield, director of legal affairs for the Motion Picture association of America, also has [Orb and Slingbox] on his radar screen. So far, no legal papers have been filed.

"By engaging the industry in a dialogue," he said. He suspected that was happening, though he was not aware of any studios in particular that were thus engaged.

So BoingBoing mentioned these "personal massagers" when they hit $0.99. Then they pointed out some quality gift giving involving these "Health and Personal Care Accessories."

Now they're just a penny. Only 926 left!

Note: Potentially NSFW.

"We, the undersigned, out of love for the NIKE brand and the design of the "Back to the Future Part II" future NIKE sneakers (worn by Marty McFly played by Michael J. Fox), would like to request that NIKE create a pair of these kicks to be sold to the public. It is the strong belief of the undersigned that these future NIKE sneakers would be immensely popular and not only boost NIKE's sales but gain new fans of the NIKE brand."

When Cool Hunting mentioned this last year, there were 300 signatures. I just added #23174. If you want wear the coolest pair of sneakers in movie history, sign the petition.

Own a Dell Laptop that uses batteries made in the last two years? Get on the recall train for a new battery before yours goes explosivo! Click the flaming laptop for free battery goodness.

I don't know, maybe they're comfy, but when people wear them, they always seem to look the way little kids do when they walk around in their parents' shoes.

In the spirit of fairness, if you feel otherwise, click pic for linkensite.

Dial 712-858-8883, then the international number. Cool.

Note: You can only call land lines right now, no cell phones.

The iCrib. Baby's first iPod dock. Really.

via Engadget.

I went to Fry's yesterday, and they have this gadget for $40 with a $30 rebate. It's not too shabby. No HDTV (way more expensive), and you have to buy your own little antenna if you want over the air signals (cheap on ebay, or local electronics stores), but the picture's great for a $10 gadget. You can encode video in a lot of different formats and sizes, and I think I'll be using it to transfer some old VHS stuff to my PC (It comes with audio/video cables, and standard coax.). Not bad for a tenner.

Finally, a place for my Martika "Toy Soldiers" cassingle! The Plus Deck ($129) mounts in a 5.25" PC slot like a CD or DVD Drive, and can be used to encode to WAV or MP3, or just for playing that late night techno mix you recorded on your uncle's deck in Dallas in 1994 (I so did).

I must own this.

via Retro to Go.

i really shouldn't exist.

The Gardner Baby Grand Piano Master. Wow.

via Gizmodo (includes gallery).

So I was texting on my Motorola/Verizon V325i the other day, and when I started to type in "september," i got the first four letters in and the autofill function automatically suggested "11" to follow it.

I guess the question is: did the guys who programmed this phone assume that we'd be texting each other about terrorism often enough to need this suggestion? Or were they just assheads?