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Year of WiMax… Again. OLOLOLOLOLOL.

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Gigabyte’s first X38 board, reviewed here! The GA-X38-DQ6 is a winner.

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Driver Sweeper v1.0 can remove unwanted drivers once and for all.

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Cheers! How to open !beers with various hardware. Study up for the LAN.

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The best buzz. A caffeine shootout for those of us who need a little something extra. I’ll take mine in an IV.

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Photon thrusters in next generation space flight FTW!! Mars anyone?

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“Penguin loving” is streamed for all to see.

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A look to the future: MSI’s X38 Diamond motherboard.

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When “unlimited” doesn’t mean unlimited: iPhones, of course!

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The Ultimate Beer Brewing Machine. +5 rep for DIY brewery. (via Coudal via Core 77).

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Good looks are all this HSF has going for it. Talk about getting burned!

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Air-cooled BFG 8600 GTS OC is fast out of the box yet stays thin with a swank new heatsink.

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He sent a threatening e-mail, now he’s banned from the Internet. Who’s dumber, the defendant or the judge?

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US greenback matches Canuck loonie for first time since 1976 (via Waxy).

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Turkey’s politicians are too cool for YouTube.

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What’s dumber: flaunting it when you break TOS, or spending $10K on an elf?

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Intel’s Penryn and SkullTrail Benchmarked at IDF

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Vista has I/O problems according to Tech-Hounds, but does it matter for most users?

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Velociraptor was feathered! Boy does that make Jurassic Park look dumb.

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I still can’t decide whether Morgan is hot or not. I’m thinking yes, but some days her look is sort of uninspired. But I think I’m in love regardless. Rob, what do you think?

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Ready for that new system build? Here’s some suggestions for every budget.

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Popular Science discusses ten of the biggest science challenges facing game developers today.

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This be what happens when a computer case and a toaster meet after too much rum. Yarr!

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OCZ sends the competition to Davy Jones’ Locker by offering huge bang-for-the-buck with its OCZ 4GB PC2-6400 DDR2-800 memory kit. Lookout!

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Arr. The QX6850 Quad Core Extreme be some booty I’d set my sails after. Curse the man who stands in me way!

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“I’d name the kids after the part that I needed. Eyes, stop wrestling with Liver. And tell Kidneys to come downstairs and get ready for dinner.”

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If Apple takes a hard stand against SIM unlockers, you could be the proud owner of a $400 iBrick.

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New Photoshop logo is getting torn up pretty bad in the comments – ouch! (via DF).

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Facebook Considered Harmless – not a news flash, yesterday’s very fun Zeldman post about succumbing to the blue beast.

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Amazon.com, the bastion and original template of tab-based web navigation, will soon go tab-less.

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Yeah baby! Motorheads rejoice as your favorite web vehicle crosses with a custom car (via Digg).

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MSI’s RX2600XT Diamond is a mid-range video card marvel offering nice bang-for-the-buck.

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Is it time to fork the Linux kernal?

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Thunderbird getting ready to spread its wings as new division of Mozilla.

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Power to the people! A battery comparison. Because dead batteries make Snuffie cry.

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An Intel P35 chipset mobo roundup is cool, but I’d like to see a deathmatch cage fight instead.

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An awesome hand drawn map of Zork!

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T-Mobile parent company buying US carrier SunCom.

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A look at a new X38 based mainboard from ASUS

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Adobe profit up 117%. Now they can almost pay off the Macromedia buyout.

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13-year-old virus infect Vista system. Hey, it was good enough for Windows for Workgroups, right?

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A ninja sweet, silent video card for your stealth HTPC. It’ll quietly lurk in the shadows before killing you with DX10 goodness.

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DDR 3 may not be for everyone, but it’s starting to show promising results if you’ve got the cash.

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Cool, thin, and sexy! Thermalright’s V2 VGA cooler.

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Ultra Products X3 1000W modular PSU has gobs of power but weak rails.

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Rocket RAM — 651 Mhz with OCZ’s FlexXLC PC2-9200 at 5-5-5 with liquid cooling.

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Feel like overclocking your graphics card? A new version of Rivatuner was released today!

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Google cheers ISO for rejecting OOXML and stumps for ODF.

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Darwin is cheering: another cybercafe “victim” in China.

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The Asus Blitz Formula P35 motherboard is full-featured and freakin’ fast, too! Can you say water-cooled north bridge?

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Trying to convince your significant other that you need 5.1 surround speakers? Here’s your excuse to buy them.

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OCZ’s DDR2 PC2-8500 Reaper HPC Edition memory has a huge name, huge heat spreaders and is capable of huge overclocks.

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Thermaltake’s SwordM case has hydraulics, but all the bling in the world can’t hide its bizarre problems.

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Attacking multi-core CPUs: The Register reports on a newly discovered vulnerability.

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Worldwide PC shipments are expected to rise by 12.6% this year; led by laptops at 28%

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A couple of very quiet entry level Seasonic PSUs reviewed

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An amazing collection of fan-created Final Fantasy 7 music remixes

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Software bugs are like magic tricks. (via Daring Fireball)

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Ubuntu is now bigger than Jesus.

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Programming a dead career path? Guess I’m screwed.

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Game review: Medal of Honor: Airborne – “Call of Duty 2 had more polish, but it didn’t let you jump out of planes.”

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Could it have been birdbrain burnout? Alex a gifted parrot was found dead in his cage with no apparent cause.

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A List Apart Issue 245 went live today, with articles on designing with the iPhone in mind and the designer/client relationship.

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Vista pirates will soon be pwned by a black screen.

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Poor Britney Spears fans. This guy is SAD.

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Apparently, we can :) Abuse by admins!

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I, too, click to see Morgan’s hotness. Can we even use the shorties box like this? OLOL. Hello world!

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Apple sells 1 million iPhones in just 74 days.

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Reminder: Wi-Fi is NEVER SECURE. Ever.

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Am I the only one who clicks on Morgan Webb’s “Webb Alert” every day just to see what sexy hairstyle she chose for that day?

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Might this US mobile phone legislation set us all free? I’m impressed but skeptical that they will pass it.

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WHAT.

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On Day of the Goose, it’s OK to choke your chicken.

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Google’s take on the end of the internet? You click on the link they provide, and it takes you to a spam page. Spam pages really ARE the end of the internet.

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The new generation of lolcats? sleeping cat videos?

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A decent guide to building a $400 PC for the family or relative.

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The Chinese can do just about anything these days — including making a sweet Motorola transformer.

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Intel sued over “Dual Core” phrase.

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The white iPod is now DEAD! Apple removes all white models.

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AMD Linux Driver 8.41 gets a test drive, upgrading from a Yugo to a Porsche.

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Yahoo purchases ad group Blue Lithium for a mire $300 million in a long shot to catch up with Google.

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Limited Thinkpad Reserve Edition has hit the web to celebrate 15 years of thinking. With a $5000 purchase price this unit is something to really think about.

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Minor firmware update quietly makes its way to PS3 fixing things only Sony Knows about.

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H20 Cooling: D-Tek Fuzion GPU and Uni-Sink “offers versatility, and should be a great solution for cooling 8800 Ultra and GTX cards”.

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Case: Cooler Master RC-690 has a “price point towards the lower end of the scale but if does not sacrifice all the cool features”.

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Mobo: ASUS P5E3 Deluxe is based on the upcoming X38 chipset.

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Driver Errors and Fixing Them: “A short guide that helps find, understand, and fix that pesky error.”

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Graphics: WinFast PX8600 GTS TDH – “With
GDDR3 memory clocked to 1000(2000)Mhz and the GPU set to 710Mhz it is
set to be a real screamer for the money”

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Cooling: Xigmatek HDT-S1283 – ” This is by far the best cooler we have yet to test”.

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PSU: Ultra X3 600W – “Fully modular design and FlexForce cabling system will be a boon to users who like to have neat, tidy installs”.

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Hard drives: WD Caviar SE16 750GB, “perpendicular-based 188GB
platters make this model almost as fast as WD’s own Raptor 150GB hard
drive, a feat we once unthinkable”.

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Dell Computers: best computers for porno! (SFW)

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After receiving an open letter from Engadget, Palm decides to kill the Foleo

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A sneak peek at a Gigabyte board based on Intel’s new X38 chipset.

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Want a fire fast VooDoo Omen? well PC Magazine was testing one that literally went up in flames.

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Sony dumps its CONNECT Music Service for a revamp that will offer more media types.

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It’s the end of the road for Sony’s 60GB PS3

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AMD’s SSE5 to lead the way to faster computing

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Take 12 million dollars in overdrafts off my account please, oh but leave the 12 million so I can spend it.

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Real holograms sans smoke. Be sure to watch the video.

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How to take someone’s wallet, just by asking.

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A couple of interesting P35 offerings from Biostar reviewed @ X-bit labs.

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A good PSU for not a lot of dough: Silver Power Blue Lightning 600W @ Anandtech

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Did you know that AA batteries are just smaller cell batteries in sequence?

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If you had $700 million dollars you might have been able to purchase Gateway as Acer just did.

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Pirate forced to use Windows operating system in criminal copyright infringement case due to US government lacking Linux monitoring programs.

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AMD Barcelona logo has hit the web and represents a black hole or it is just a gimmick for Apple Jacks.

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42″ LCD TV’s to drop to sub $699 range while 32″ LCD TV’s will drop to $299-$399 range this holiday season.

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The universe has a big hole in it, and nobody knows why.

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Mommy is so sorry. (One in a series called “Regrets” by Steve Delahoyde)

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Bad OC experience with the Core 2 Duo E6850: “Each and every board simply refused to budge past 415FSB”.

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You have chosen to use the Comic Sans font. As a programmer and a typesetter, I must urge you to reconsider.”

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Video: dynamic image resizing – really freaking cool!

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Fun Video: If business meetings were like forums. NSFW due to language.

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MSI joins the external notebook graphic community with its Notebook Station.

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Microsoft has 65nm Xbox’s in transit sooner than anyone thought and will be pushing them to the market in due time.

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LG releases Blu Ray & HD DVD combo drive priced to hurt anyones pocket book.

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Playstation 3 gets TV tuner & turns into a DVR, currently available in the UK, France, Italy, Germany and Spain.

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Alienware adds 4x Blu Ray drives to lineup at a $600 upgrade.

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Wii smacks the Xbox 360 in total Global Sales! while PS3 stays a distant 3rd.

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GPS on the PSP! Find your way through this acronym soup.

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A performance boost for the FAH project. Stanford has a new folding client for the PS3, v1.2.

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Oh Joy, ads to be part of Youtube videos! More of your time wasted.

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A 52″ LCD that’s 1.1″ thick and weighs less than 60 pounds.

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The space shuttle Endeavor has landed safely.

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Water block: Swiftech MCW6500-T with “a powerful peltier element to deliver temperatures below zero”.

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Dual-layer DVD burner: the LG GSA-H62N SATA.

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How to create a WinPE 2.0 bootable USB key. While you’re at it, here’s a review of the 8GB Corsair Survivor so you have something to put it on.

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Memory: 2GB Corsair 1800MHz DOMINATOR CL7 DDR3. Sticks they reviewed last month with Qimonda memory ICs had 9-9-9-24 timings, now this batch is 7-7-7-20.

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Case: Antec P182 Performance One Elite. “The proven P180 chassis” minus “few superfluous features” and plus “some very nice convenience and appearance features”.

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BioShock demo DirectX 10 performance: benchmarks on 5 different video cards.

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Display: SOYO DYLM24D6 24″ LCD. “no-frills” (read: lacks connectors) display that “has excellent color, brightness, contrast and sharp text quality in an affordable package.”

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Stick on sunroof? Case modders take note. All the look of a window without the work.

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Catalust 7.9s leaked but of limited use, of course.

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Impressive cooling performance in a smaller package: Thermalright Ultima-90 review @ Anandtech.

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A frosty Cedar Mill Celeron taken to 7862MHz @ XS. An amazing 156% OC.

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Dwarf penis … vacuum cleaner… errr.. I just don’t know what to say about this.

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Skype outage still not explained satisfactorily. Many are saying the tried to “sweep it under the rug” with a press release. (via Warp2Search). UPDATE: Explained!

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Catalyst 7.8 incompatible with ATI AGP cards. Revert to 7.7 if you have issues.

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ATI issues patch for BioShock stutter.

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NVIDIA beta drivers for GeForce 6, 7, and 8 series came out yesterday.

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Square-Enix merchandise store opens for US consumers. Fanboys, surrender yo