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darth vader and stormtrooper incense holders: smell the dark side of the force

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I’m not sure who the target demo is for these Star Wars Imperial incense holders. Maybe they’re for geekster-hippies? Dunno. What I do know is that they’re weird, and therefore I had to write about them. Because as you know, we’re all about weird here on technabob.

Now what sort of incense would burn well inside…

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September 3rd, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: retro strange + wonderful

technabob quickpix: when a picture is worth 1000 words

burn during reading [best bookmark ever]

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While everyone is all abuzz about the new Kindle 2 Wireless E-Book Reader, we at Technabob still like to occasionally crack open an old-fangled hardcover or paperback. At least we now have a nice way to keep track of what page we left off on. The Burning Bookmark is available from Perpetual Kid or Gama…

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February 12th, 2009 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design just plain fun quickpix

windows vista dvd burn: got 130 years to kill?

Vista Wait Dialog

Ah, the power of Windows Vista. Check out this recent screen capture of the progress dialog that appeared when an unsuspecting Vista user tried to burn 15 megabytes of files to a DVD RW drive.

So if I’m doing my math right, the disk will be completed in 2138, a little over 130 years from…

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December 1st, 2007 comments (8) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: computing just plain fun