Sweet PC case

Okay, the geek in me thought this was too cool to pass up. An "open air" pc case, easily accessed for the tinkerer in all of us...My own PC is starting to look this way, as I have stripped the cases sides, its face--it is downright skeletal. But not nearly this cool.

OpenOffice 3

Seriously, who needs Microsoft anymore?

Two tidbits

Okay, here's a way to effectively reform the Electoral College.

And here's a way to install Mac OS X on your PC. Think of the identity crisis that poor machine will have, though--"I'm a Mac...and a PC!" Oy vey.

Flying Man

He's known as Jet Man, FusionMan, and The-Crazy-Guy-With-That-Wing-Strapped-To-His-Back. And he's done it again.

This past Friday the 49-year old Swiss daredevil Yves Rossy jumped from a plane at 8,200 feet over Calais, France, fired up the homemade jet-powered wing strapped to his back, and flew his way across the English Channel in just 13 minutes, at speeds of 125 mph. In a nod to the crowds hanging out on the Cliffs of Dover to watch his flight, he did a theatrical figure eight before opening his parachutes and landing near the famous South Foreland Lighthouse.

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