Forget about the content for a minute; that's a great looking mount. Anyone know who makes it?

"It is marginally smaller in weight and size than two bars of gold."
The expected familiarty of their clients with the weight and size of two bars of gold speaks volumes.

You can get swine flu from eating pork is someone with swine flu sneezed on it before you ate it. But of course, it doesn't come from the pork itself.

How are the guards supposed to update their facebook status if their iPhones are jammed?

Oh yes, WiFi of course!

I agree with the slimplayer suggestion. Also, iPeng for iPod Touch or iPhone makes a great remote. $149 for the player and $9 for iPeng provided you already have the iPhone.

Streaming WiFi from a handheld will drain the battery quite fast. In my opinion it is a much better idea to stream from a desktop computer/NAS/internet source (such as Rhapsody/Slacker/Pandora/internet radio).

some janky USB drive... I love it!

Seriously, I suppose they won't support using a janky USB drive for anything!

Personally I use a Drobo connected to my airport extreme. If that method fails, I can always connect via USB on a fixed mac. The backup files should still be fine. Really important files get backed up to .mac though.

Oliver

not true. iPods have been on ISS. Photo evidence:
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=22729

Actually, what the article says is that Qualcomm can keep selling chips it has already been selling until January 2009, but only to existing customers. And they must pay a royalty. And after 2009, they can't sell them at all anymore.

There is nothing retroactive about this. Did you read the article?

I have no idea what any of those abbreviations mean, but I think I must have one of those boxen. I love them. Santa, are you listening?

I need this!