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  • A Quiet PC for DVR

    Hush Technologies specializes in fanless PC designs for noise conscious applications like living room PVRs. Their latest effort looks pretty sweet. Unfortunately, at about $2500, I’ll be sticking to my plan of building my own open source based PVR on an old Dell box using MythTV.

  • Next Time I’m Rich…

    Here are some awesome (both in terms of beauty and expense) prints of Pink Floyd artwork at RockOptic (like the name!) On their site they also have some background stuff on the artist who does Pink Floyd’s memorable album covers, Storm Thorgerson. A new random factoid for me was he also did the Peter Gabriel’s…

  • Festerhead Radio

    Stumbled on the Festerhead online radio station this morning. Was looking for some good Hawaiian music (missing Maui, sniff…) Usually I tune into Hawaiian 105, which I listened to alot when tooling around Maui. But some reason their crappy streaming applet cuts out continually on my internet connection at work (but works fine from Road…

  • Happy Halloween: 1upkin

    For all you Super Mario Brothers fans out there, here’s a step by step guide for carving your own 1up mushroom on a pumpkin: http://infinitesnake.com/1upkin.php Where do these people find the time?

  • Now that’s Extreme PC Modding…

    Check this out, some one using a radiator from a Toyota Corolla in his liquid CPU cooler rig: http://www.winbeta.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=6594 Nice!

  • The Australian Pink Floyd Show

    Caught the execellent Pink Floyd tribute band, The Australian Pink Floyd Show, last night. They’re pretty good. They rambled straight through all of Dark Side of the Moon, a few selections from Wish You Were Here, Fletcher Memorial Home (from the less popular Final Cut album), a very energetic Careful with That Axe, Eugene (complete…