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• Craziest Town Meeting Ever Involves Porn, Sexual Harassment, Vehicular Homicide

  When Anthony Troiano went into a meeting with fellow town selectmen in Hopkinton, MA, he thought maybe they would want to discuss that time he killed somebody, had his license suspended, and was arrested.  As it turns out, Troiano had bigger problems... Read More... Posted Jan 08 2009, 10:15 AM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: porn, wtf, jobs, driving, arrested, pornography, arrest, sexual harassment, murder, laptops, government, massachusetts, co-workers

• John Lennon Comes Back From the Dead to Make Sure Every Child Has a Laptop

  John Lennon would like you to make sure every child a laptop. Yes, that John Lennon. Twenty eight years after his death, the former Beatle is starring in a 30-second commercial for the One Laptop Per Child initiative. Footage of Lennon has been mashed-up with a voice saying, "Imagine every child, no matter where in the world they were, could access a universe of knowledge. They would have a chance to learn, to dream, to achieve anything they want. I tried to do it through my music, but now you can do it in a very different way." While we are so totally blown away by what kids can do with technology these days (no, really, we're not) we're also fairly creeped out by this commercial. Video after the jump... Read More... Posted Jan 05 2009, 10:17 AM by Emily Farris with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: video, dead people, tv, advertisements, television, john lennon, commercials, the beatles, laptops, john lennon's estate, john lennon laptop, john lennon shilling laptops, imagine, yoko ono, the $100 laptop, the $200 laptop, posthumous, one laptop per child, imagine all the lonely people, the $400 laptop

• Video of the Day: How To Recover Your Stolen Laptop

  Has anyone tried Adeona or any other software program? And wouldn't it be worth losing your laptop for a day or two just to track down and bust the thief? How fun would that be? Oh, uh, right. We don't condone that.  Posted Aug 07 2008, 05:08 PM by Brian Fairbanks with | with no comments Filed under: video of the day, computers, thievery, stealing, laptops

• Today in Gadget Porn: The Laptop Book

  We used to go to bed with a book. These days, it's our laptop. Seriously, we sleep with it in the bed. We know, we know. But this laptop book would make us feel a little better about all of that business. [Gizmodo: The Laptop Book Makes a Deep Statement, But No One Cares Because It's a PC in a Book!]  Posted Apr 23 2008, 03:52 PM by Emily Farris with | with no comments Filed under: computers, books, losers, laptops