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This is going to suck

[A writer from *Lost* and the creator of *Alias* are writing the movie adpatation for Stephen King's *The Dark Tower* series](http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/02/26/stephen-king-confirms-the-dark-tower-movie/). How many ways are there to point…

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Stupid statistics

[Facebook costs Australia $5b a year](http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/facebook-labelled-a-5b-waste-of-time/2007/08/19/1187462087940.html?s_cid=rss_news). By the same methodology I could say that the human digestive tract costs Australia $7.2b a year...

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Between runs

Currently I'm spending a lot of time waiting for models to finish running. [Maybe this is the answer](http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/08/geek_knitting_make_pdfcas.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890).

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Style to die for

[A beautiful motorbike](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/vrooooom/confederate-renovatio-makes-me-drool-as-much-as-a-wraith-or-hellcat-290514.php).

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Spare $10,000?

Try this new laptop [with four processor cores](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/laptops/quad+core-laptops-coming-costs-10000%252B-fully-loaded-290405.php). Honestly, I don't just need it to play games!

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Emergency Gadget Alert

[Apple announces new iPods](http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/ipod-touch-gets-official/). I need one of these quite urgently...

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One last video for today

In this [review of the book *Forbidden LEGO*](http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/08/ems_labs_review_of_forbid.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890).

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