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all it takes is a stamp

I sent in my crappy old earbuds on Monday, and yesterday, I received a $35-off coupon code for any v-moda Vibe, Vibe duo, Vibe ii, Remix Audio, Remix Remote, or Crossfade LP. For all of those except the Vibe duo and Vibe ii, that puts them…

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i can see clearly now

Green lasers have become quite the thing in the firearm community, primarily due to the fact that the green light emitted by them is both brighter and more noticeable than the “old” red lasers. That said, did you know that the green light is…

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mantis knives, in review

Over the past few years, I have said a few things about Mantis Knives, but I have never actually fooled around with or owned one of their products. Well, this past weekend, an opportunity presented itself to put the rubber to the…

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now with 70% more wombat

Speaking of things that you know you want, Larry Correia just keeps cranking them out:

Hi, The Combat Wombat shirt has just been released for Pre Order. We will send the shirt to the printer on October 1st. We hope to be sending them out

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signatures make it better

You know you want at least one, so go tell Larry Correia how many signed copies of his new book, Monster Hunter Vendetta, you will order, so he can get them sent off to the right place.

And you do want one, especially what with its timely pre-Christmas release.

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off into the great unknown

Looks like the T@B just got some pretty stiff competition.

Just from looking at the spec sheets, the Cricket Trailer (*.pdf warning) is smaller on all three axes (at least when it is folded up), has more headroom when it is opened, weighs…

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for sale

1x Acer AspireRevo AR3610-U2002 Desktop (Dark Blue) – Effectively identical to the one on the Amazon listing, except the included wireless keyboard and mouse are black, and the hard drive is 250GB. Comes with all hardware included in the original packaging (wireless keyboard, wireless mouse, wireless USB dongle, power…

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my kind of case

I swear, sometimes (but only sometimes), I want an iWhatever just for the accessories.

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world-worthy lens

So, given the current situation of “the only lens I have for my XTi is the kit 18-55mm“, what should be next? Or, more specifically and topically, what should I get to take overseas? I have been wanting a 50mm prime lens lens for about as long…

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backyard practice

We recreational shooters understand the value of reactive targets – immediate feedback to the shooter, primal entertainment at something being destroyed, potentially-colorful dust clouds / explosions – but it is nice to see toy manufacturers finally getting onboard. You know you want one.

(Courtesy of Nerd Approved.)

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new kicks

Well, since we are going to Ireland next month (and we actually reserved our tickets last week), I figured it would be only appropriate to get some Irish shoes to wear:

Well, really, neither of those pairs of shoes are, in any way, Irish, and I swear…

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go faster faster

Huh. Turns out a heart transplant would be possible.

Ohh, the things I would do… if I had a limitless supply of money…

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camera bag bleg

Well, if I am going to ask for help, I might as well ask for a lot of it.

Basically, I want a bag that is capable of safely carrying my DSLR, while also useable for hiking or miscellaneous junk on those times when I do not necessarily have…

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… and that does it for me

Consider any recommendations I might have made previously in favor of Fleets officially retracted.

I could (kind of) deal with players with pocket books being able to buy advanced items for their flagships ahead of the technology curve. But coupling that with an inability to procure specific…

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htpc bleg

So it is time to turn to the wondiferous intertubes for some assistance. Better Half and I recently decided to replace our TiVo with Windows Media Center, and procured an Acer Revo to serve as our host computer… Everything seemed to be going fine, but, unfortunately, it would…

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newer is not always better

I started playing TDZK back in college… I do not really remember who it was that introduced me to it, but I am inclined to believe that it was the same fellow midshipman who introduced me to Sluggy. I shudder to think of how many hours…

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*headdesk*

Note to self: The word “easy” should never be in the same sentence as any of the tens of thousands of names for various Unix distributions.

*sigh* And now I understand why people pay for things like TiVo service…

Also, how is it appropriate for a computer company…

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summon undead

If anyone out there remembers the old browser-based game TDZK, its next incarnation goes live on the 29th.

Or. Well. Sort of. This new game will have about as much in common with the old TDZK as Ghost would have had with StarCraft, and I…

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take pride in it

There are a lot of reasons I like crawling in the cockpit of my Ford Mustang Bullitt every day… not the least of which is because Ford never took any governmental money, and is still kicking ass:

Ford Motor Co (F: 12.40 ,+0.30 ,+2.44%) posted stronger-than-expected quarterly

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one, please

I would not want to own one, or even be stationed in/on one… I just want to be in the same county as one when it lights off:

In the first major Earth landing it appeared that a battleship had managed, through a fluke more than anything, to take

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charter just got stupid…er

After far too many years suffering under the idiocy of Comcast, we were quite thankful to finally move to an area where other options presented themselves – Dish, DirectTV, Charter Communications, and so forth. After examining the options, and deciding not to bother dealing with DSL, we decided…

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bring on the foam

Dang. Paint this thing black and it is probably already banned in Kalifornistan.

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*double-take*

Really, I cannot come up with a coherent response to these – I am endlessly vaccilating between “ingenious”, “hilarious”, “inspired”, and “just plain wierd”.

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one born every minute

Blizzard, you are both awesome, and bastards.

‘Round about six months ago, I applied for your Starcraft II beta. I did not get in.

Now, a scant 10 days before you actually release the game, you send out a mass email saying, “Hey, all you…

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boogety-boogety

Speaking of knives, and solitary bad review or not, I have to give Ka-Bar credit for their Besh BOGA – not for the design (on the scale of “being around forever”…), and not for the implementation, but rather for the name.

BOGA – Back Off and Get…

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sharp and pointies in person

As regular readers may recall, I have written about Mantis knives a little in the past, with the general conclusion being “intriguing, but troubling” – intriguing for the designs, approach, and mentality; troubling for the advertising, attitude, and mentality.

Well, recently, I have gotten a…

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the construction is proceeding

I would totally buy one and wear it, but I have some serious doubts as to the number of people who would appreciate it…

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it just keeps getting funnier

Consumer Reports withdraws their endorsement of the iPhone 4.

Apple users/fans post about this at the Apple forums.

Apple deletes those discussions on the iPhone 4′s shortcomings recorded by Consumer Reports.

People with previous experience with Apple’s hardware issues point and laugh at

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’bout time

After literally a month in the shop, and enough money to buy a decent starter-1911 from any of the big names out there, the Bullitt is back home, and is pretty damned near the same condition it was before the accident. Shiny.

And let me just say, from the…

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*glom*

Well, that is just going to give me nightmares.

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it’s so shiny!

It is probably just as well that I spent my pocket money for the next… oh… twenty years on the Bullitt (which, by the by, is still in the shop, a month after the accident… *sigh*), because I had only one coherent reaction to seeing this.

Want.…

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you would totally be compensating

A few days ago, we talked about the waste of metal and plastic that is the “Smart” car, and how its name is a misnomer in every definition of the word.

Today, Tam points us to an example of what that midgetized little

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high-powered endurance

It was a staged publicity stunt, performed under carefully-controlled, specifically-engineered, highly unrealistic conditions, but a 2011 V6 Mustang just got 48.5 miles per gallon on the Bristol Speedway while driving 776.5 miles on a single tank of gas.

Of course, the car only averaged about…

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pot. kettle. apple.

Apple to consumers: ur doin’ it wrong.

Consumers to Apple: ur doin’ it wrong.

*giggles uncontrollably* Given my own experiences with Apple hardware that did not work with the software it was bundled with, I am hardly surprised at the rainbow-fruit’s reaction…

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junk in the trunk

I have to admit… this… vehicle… might just have the ugliest arse of any wheeled contraption I have ever had the misfortune of laying my eyes upon. Impressively, it even sucked when it was a concept, too.

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come hell or high water

Mini had to pay to bring in the Porsche.

Mini had to pay to bring in the professional driver.

And, so far as I can tell, Porsche never actually agreed to or endorsed the race.

But Mini and Porsche had their race… and Mini lost.…

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publicity is publicity

Porsche may be run by a bunch of scaredy-pants, pansy-arsed weenies, but suffice to say that Hyundai is not.

The bad news? Mini cannot back down without looking like complete goofs. The good news? Mini cannot back down without looking like complete goofs. This could be interesting……

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tablet-it-yourself

When things like this scroll across my screens, I really start to wish I knew more about lower-level programming and microelectronic circuits. I mean, stuff like this is crazy-cool.

Then I remember what little I learned about that kind of digital magickery, and how not-fun…

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calling it something does not make it so

I will be perfectly honest: short of a few million dollars, there is extraordinarily little that would convince me to own a “Smart” car and use it as my daily driver… or, really, drive one any longer than a test-drive would take.

However, I do have to…

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this could be good

In addition to rightfully jettisoning Megan Fox, it looks as though Transformers 3 will pick up Alan Tudyk, of Firefly/Serenity and Dollhouse fame.

This movie is looking better and better.

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leading the charge

Being a Mustang owner, I have no particular love for Challengers, and given that Dodge did take bail-out money, and is now partially owned by the federal government, I have no particular love for that company as a whole.

That said, this is simply awesome. Ludicrous, but awesome: …

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where there is a market

Some people were astonished – absolutely astonished, I tell you – at my complaint that the Jesus Tablet… er… feminine hygiene produ… er… iPad did not come with a USB port.

Other people saw an upside-down, one-supplier market where demand was far oustripping production, and are currently

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