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Thetron noticed that Australia's DoD is buying an Apple cluster. The contract, signed last month and valued at almost $90,000, specifies the supply of an Apple Xserve cluster node running OS X 10.4, which was officially launched last Friday.
SilentPCReview have a quiet wooden case project posted. There's also a new Special K entry in the PCDB, where a geek takes a boring Compaq deskpro and turns it into a custom PC for his girl. Awww.
BoxGods has an interesting article about the dramas involved with making a modded PC for a competition. That left me with about 14 full days to build a totally custom PC from scratch. Not to overdo the dramatics, but I spent the last 5 of those working around the clock.
Your next IT job could be on a cruise ship with a lot of other geeks, thanks Paul. Their idea has drawn some criticism from critics who are labelling IT a "slave ship" and a "sweatshop", prompting some to doubt SeaCode will ever get launched.
Apparently Microsoft provides a special version of their "Bliss" desktop background for New Zealand users. Bizarre.
Dan has some thoughts about future displays and some letters.
TweakGuides have a guide to tweaking Firefox, a popular alternative browser.
Decker spotted a guide to converting a webcam to work in infra-red.
From Loop Goose: Futuristic wheelchair/vehicle here and here. Flash timewaster - WWII in ASCII. "Leather" jacket made from mouse + human bone cells. Plus a whole lot of other weird links here.
Here's a cool idea, a Time Traveller's conference. Of course, they only ever need to hold one, as future time-travellers can come back to it. It's at MIT in a few days time, thanks Ashley, who says: It needs help being promoted so future travelers know about it and doesn't just end up as a lot of guys in DeLoreans claiming to be called "Doc Brown" and "Marty". One point twenty-one giga-watts! :)
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