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Slashdot | How Cheap Can A PC Be?

It should be possible to build a $100 computer. I’ll try tomorrow night and see if I can price enough parts to run a browser and email on linux. I’m sure it won’t be top of the line, but newegg should have some older cheap motherboards that’d work.

“Ballmer wants a $100 computer. OK, can we build a reasonable PC for just $100 and a copy of Linux? The rules are: It’s assumed that a monitor, keyboard and mouse are already available. Ethernet connectivity must be provided. All components must already have Linux support. All components must be new and currently available. The result must be electrically safe for the home. Is it possible?”

The SaltwaterPizza Blog: Anti-Bush Bumper Stickers

As the United States (and the world) holds its breath in anticipation of the upcoming election, I thought it’d be fun to look back at some of the many humorous bumper stickers that have appeared over the last year on cars all around the country.

SlickDeals.net [Home] - Your Daily Source for the BEST Deals on the Net!

I’m just blogging this because some people will think I’m hinting that they need it, even if I say that’s not why I’m blogging this.

Oh yeah, and why is a deals site telling us about mouthwash? If you order just one gallon it’s $7.69 a gallon, what kind of deal is that? Am I supposed to order 19 gallons so I can get the free shipping?

OfficeMax has 1 Gallon Listerine for $2.69. Free shipping on $50 orders otherwise its $5. Thanks insanecarbonbas.

Need more traffic to your BLOG?

Interesting one stop shop for increasing traffic to your blog.

You spend all night setting up your very own blog, but in short time you realize nobody is coming to read it. You jealously watch the biggest blogs out there getting tons of attention but how can your blog get noticed too?

Using a Regular Expression to Match HTML

Cool explanation of some complex regexp.

Using a Regular Expression to Match HTML

I just love regular expressions. I mean look at the sample below.

</?\W+((\S+\W+(\S*=\S*(?:”.*?”|’.*?’|[^'">\s]+))?)+\s*|\s*)/?>

What’s not to like?

CNN.com - Stranger moves in, redecorates while woman’s on vacation - Oct 22, 2004

Douglas County authorities say they can’t explain why Beverly Valentine, 54, broke into an empty home and started acting like it was her own.

How to make a toga by Ron Turner

Need a costume idea?

Togaboy has helped over 330,000 toga parties to get the costume right, or at least get it ridiculous enough to get you noticed.

DubyaSpeak.com : Dubya Incidents

Some Dubya incidents are truly worth special notice. This section of the site features those incidents. If you know of any other confirmed Dubya escapades worthy of inclusion here, please email DubyaSpeak.

USB-powered Christmas Tree and snow man - Engadget - www.engadget.com

It really wouldn’t be an Engadget Christmas without this USB-powered snow man or Christmas Tree on your desk, would it?

AMD’s Personal Internet Communicator brings the Internet to the people - Engadget - www.engadget.com

This looks like it could be a cook in-car system. The price is nice too.

366MHz AMD Geode x86, 128MB RAM, 10GB drive, USB, 56k modem, a host of Internet-centric software, and Windows CE with XP-extensions (for XP app compatibility), which apparently enables the little sucker to boot in 25 seconds