looks like the phone to go with the batmobile from Batman Begins

what are the supposed benefits of running OS X on an iPod?

It would, in theory, make your iPod look and act more like iPhone. Basically a slicker GUI.

It would also, in theory, make it more hackable like an iPhone.

I suppose with the bigger display (that supposedly will happen) a slicker, more capable OS would be worthwhile to take advantage of it.

I am tired. That first sentence is pretty awkward, but I'm going to leave it....

Speaking of hacking the iPhone, I just heard on NPR that some college kid unlocked the iPhone for the first time. I can't find a web article for it, but apparently you have to take off the cover and scrape off a delicate wire in the interior of the hardware. Unsurprisingly, there's a high likelihood you could damage or destroy the phone in doing so.

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Less fiddly hack. This scraping guy is not the first one.

Minesweeper...the Movie. [link]

Man, getting a 500 gig drive is like finally having room to *breathe.* I've spent the last three or four days backing up the Dell, wiping it and dual-booting XP and Kubuntu; backing up both the 60 and 80 gig drives, which were NTFS and Mac OS Extended respectively, so I could wipe them and format them in FAT32, which I have been kicking myself over for a *year* for not doing when I initially got them; backing up the iPod video and wiping it; and finally downloading and re-downloading all the stuff I had to watch and delete or didn't have a chance to download since last summer. It's ridiculously liberating--and time-consuming! But so worth it.

The 80 gig drive was a lovely LaCie Porche-design drive, which has done me well so far. The 500 gig is the same kind, only larger, of course. I was trying to think of a good way to protect it for the flight back to England, and while I was at Goodwill the other day I picked up a discarded zippered pencil case, which apparently belonged to a child named Daniel who had whiled away his time scraping crayon onto the top of the thing. But I have to say, it encases the drive like it was *made* for it. I added some of the foam packaging that came with the drive's box, and it's snug with no sharp corners--perfect for hauling into an overhead compartment. Bless Goodwill and all its oddities.

Hivemind question: I have an Acer 5040 laptop with an AMD Turion and broadcom g internal wifi modem. I am trying to get on a LEAP authenticated network, and I've been told that my modem is not LEAP certified so it won't work. Now I need to buy a new internal wifi modem. What's the difference between mini-PC cards and expess mini cards, and how do I determine which one will fit in my laptop? Also will intel cards work with my athlon processer?

ETA: Never mind, I got the broadcom to work with LEAP.

Huh. The nova that was supr all those years ago has returned.