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Mac fans please don't weep, Ice-T was just giving his seven-year old Powerbook a good farewell. Then again, he didn't do the right thing; it isn't RoHS certified, especially when it was made seven years ago! Viewer discretion advised.

Kids and their tantrums! What would you do if you've learnt that your Level 70 character was killed by the swipe (or signing) of a credit card? 

Image from Google Blog

When you are a Googler (meaning that you're workingat Google), you tend to resort to offbeat ways when solving problems. One fine day, Google decided to clean up its lawn as a way to remove weeds and a potential fire hazard, but instead of putting their lawnmowers to the task, goats from a nearby 'holistic land management site' called California Grazing were employed instead. No joking! 

Deep within a former nuclear bunker, one of Sweden's largest ISPs, Bahnhof has created a server farm that's comes straight out from a science fiction movie. Named Pionen, the facility is fleshed out with two submarine engines for a total of 1.5 megawatt power output, a 'cool' 1.5 megawatt cooling system while triple redundancy over fiber and copper lines protects its customers from Internet outages and the apocalypse!

Its interior is bedecked with waterfalls, smoke machines and a whole lot of cool textural effects on the walls, floors and even ceilings! Definitely a cool place to work at!

Hard Drive maker Seagate has taken quite a bit of flak lately from members of its own forum when instances of their 7200.11 hard drives, particularly the 1TB model have been failing due to a firmware problem. Till date, the company has not released a new firmware although you can check if your drive is affected using SeaTools. 

More information on the forum threads below;

http://forums.seagate.com/stx/board/message?board.id=ata_drives&thread.id=3668

http://forums.seagate.com/stx/board/message?board.id=ata_drives&thread.id=4452

Burnout Paradise is easily one of the best racing games of 2008, and we're looking forward to its PC incarnation next month. Taiwanese motherboard company Elitegroup Computer Systems appears to be equally excited too, which may explain the rather obvious "homage" of the game on the box cover of one of their latest motherboards. The similarity is quite uncanny, don't you think?

Honda's ASIMO is back in Malaysia and now, it offers much more than just being a show robot which does more than just walk and run; check out the video to see what's in store for your at these dates; November 20th to 23rd at City Square Shopping Center in JB and 27th to 30th November in Queensbay Mall, Penang!

Not to be contended with televisions, singer/songwriter/model/extraordinare Bjork has made up her mind about televisions; the little streets in them look beautiful! Look at how she takes apart her own CRT (and manages to not get shocked by the bunchful of capacitors in there) and explains on how they work! A must-watch.

Not contend with the amount of bad press and cat calls that surrounded their beloved Large Hadron Collider, the 17-mile tunnel which helps scientists discover the secrets behind dark matter and dark energy. And no, its not a portal to hell or something!

Take an RCX, a couple of bumper sensors, two minifigs, a Donkey Kong figurine scaled to minifig size, a whole lotta patience, and we've got something called a labor of love :D

Cool, isn't it? No matter what, you MUST buy it as its made by Norris Labs. Chuck Norris, geddit?

Phew! What a tiring weekend it was at the second PIKOM PC Fair of the year! With more bargains ranging from USB flashdrives to monitors, printers, and even notebooks now, it really is a place to go to if you're needing new tech toys. Here's a photo compilation of what we saw over the weekend! Hit the jump for more images. 

Via digg

If you can't stand anymore of the irritating fingerprints on your treasured black DS Lite, do what this guy did - sand it down with sand paper! Madness! Absolute madness!

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That's right. GameAxis Malaysia is giving you the chance to watch another movie for free again. This time its for the movie Deja Vu, and its day before everyone else does as well!

All you have to do is bring along the November issue of GameAxis Unwired Malaysia to the screening at least one hour before the movie start to redeem a pair of tickets. Hurry, limited tickets are available.

Date: 29th November 2006
Time: 9.30pm
Venue: Cathay Cineleisure Damansara (next to the curve)

PS: Please come one hour before 9.30pm to redeem your tickets.