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Nothing says, “I’m a disgruntled moonbat” quite like a blue bracelet.

Originally posted by Paul from Wizbang

We have all seen the commercials, now read how it really works – sparky

Reading Bill Macrone at PC Magazine is the win to John Dvorak’s wang. Instead of hearing Dvorak bang out another column based on how his eggs and baby flesh are sitting that morning, Machrone tells us about how he’s been using his Cold Head soldering iron to weld together Fender Blues Junior amps. I give him an ‘E’ for ‘awEsome.’

And he likes it, too—apparently the carbon-tipped unit is great for average-sized joints, but doesn’t have enough juice to do the big work. That’s okay, because you’ll want to keep around a traditional heat iron for other stuff like heat-shrink tubing and writing poems to your girlfriend in your arm (“moonlight shadow, welcome to the jungle/is there a sweeter word than ‘conjugal?'”). Considering how cheaply you can pick up a cold heat yourself ($20 at ThinkGeek), it sounds like it really is worth adding to your tweakers aresenal.

It’s Cool to Be Cold [PCMag]

Originally from Gizmodo

Young cellphone users caught on to text messaging way before most people but it looks like some kids didn’t realize the cost of their trailblazing.  The New York Times talked to some that have racked up service charges in the hundreds of dollars, including one high-school student who got hit with a $150 bill — “I cried,” she said. “I felt like I lost a piece of me.”  Wait a minute, we are talking about cellphone charges, right?

Originally posted by Donald Melanson from Engadget

Judging by Apple’s stock price today, I’m not sure this guys is 100% right, and certainly does not get it. – sparky

Canada’s National Post has published a column by Paul Kedrosky on the Mac mini and iPod shuffle, in which Mr. Kedrosky complains about Apple’s foray into the low-cost computer market. “You have to love Apple Computer. Not, however, for its products. Those are over-glossy fashion plates designed for the people who like to overpay for products and then brag about it … No, you have to love Apple for its ability to manipulate the press. Here is a tiny company with 3% market share in the personal computer, and yet Steve Jobs’ new product announcements at Macworld earlier this week were treated as if they were auguries of the future of computing from a descending deity … Hence the company’s announcements this week. Far from being forward-thinking and strategic, Jobs was busily shoring up a currently foundering product line — Apple’s over-priced Macintosh — by leveraging a soon-to-be foundering product line — Apple’s iPod.

Thank you macnn.com

Apparently, Matt Myers wasn’t the only one to notice the similarity in size between the Mac mini and a DUN car stereo. Brother-in-A-arms Jalopnik noticed that a New York-based company is already working out plans to use the new Mac mini as an in-car computer—an idea that is far from new, but rarely as tailor-made (ignoring the DUN-sized PCs out there that already exist). The commodity nature of the Mac mini may be just what automotive hackers need to come up with a unified set of sensors, software, and hardware to turn road rockets into dork dragsters.

In-car Computing to See Boost from Mini Mac [Jalopnik]

Originally from Gizmodo