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Pictured here are my old 44 megabyte five-and-one-quarter-inch full-height hard disk drive, which was once in a blazing fast 20 MHz 80386 (with a full two megabytes of RAM!), and my new two gigabyte flash-memory CF card for my new digital camera. The hard disk cost $440 back in 1988, which is some $700 in today’s dollars-light. The CF card cost $200 minus a $30 rebate.

We also see here that that useless 32 megabyte card they ship with the camera isn’t completely useless after all. With it, you can photograph the real memory card.

Just another ordinary morning here in Milwaukee Wisconsin

Think your neighbor has too many decorations up? Check out uglychristmaslights.com. Also, learn how important a tripod is when taking pictures at night—and they reject the really shaky ones!

(Via The Pagan Prattle Online)

If you aren’t reading Spamusement (Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines!), then you are really missing out. Go check it out now.

I turned on my TV and what did I see? People racing snowmobiles in the summer on grass, in an organized, televised event. Why are they doing this? I don’t know, but I assume that when they were younger, they tried running the family snowmobile on grass and their dads yelled at them for doing such a stupid thing, and now that they are grownups, by golly, they are going to race on grass. Maybe these are the same people who race motorcycles on ice.

In a desperate effort to capture the coveted “least useful Firefox extension” title, some skillful people with too much time on their hands have created on egg timer extension, available now. They have a fabulous logo, the firefox curled up around an egg. It puts an icon on the bottom of the window, which when clicked gives a menu with soft, medium, and hard as choices. A dialog box pops up to tell you when the required cooking time has elapsed. Arguably even less useful than Firesomething, in that Firesomething is a minor source of entertainment every time you start your browser whereas EggOn, while in theory useful, is probably not something you are actually going to time an egg with, unless you really need help.

(Now that we are hopefully over the beta version upgrade churn, maybe I should install Firesomething again….)