A Steampunk Keyboard!

It's gorgeous! This guy took a computer keyboard, bought typewriters off eBay to harvest the keys, and totally rebuilt the keyboard with lots of nice and shiny brass. One thing that's really sweet is the function keys are labeled in roman numerals!

http://steampunkworkshop.com/keyboard.shtml

I didn't read the text, I just looked at the pretty pictures. I wonder how much this thing cost in parts and labor?

An amusing spam email

From: Griffith N. Roderick
Subj: This special is only good until February 28, so act soon.
Date: Sun Mar 04, 2007


Damn! I missed out on this special offer! Curse those slow email servers!
(or perhaps I have 360 days until offer expiration...)

Want to win a free laptop?

No tricks, Bob Johnson's has some incredible deals on older computers and laptops that are still perfectly usable. If you are a serious computer geek and want to pick up a couple of extra PCs to mess with creating a software firewall, or need to set up a computer for a relative that will only be used web browsing, this is a great place for such things.

For the monthly laptop drawing, you must register at the following site on a monthly basis: they purge all entries after the drawing is held. You receive a confirmation email, and very little else: if you want, you can only enter the drawing and exclude all other email. I get probably four emails a month or so from them.

http://www.laptopextra.com/used-laptop-drawing.htm

See what employees think of various companies

An amusing little site. The one for Fry's Electronics was no surprise, maybe someday I'll look up Radio Shack and Walmart.

http://www.jobvent.com/