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      <title>Eli Mattson</title>
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      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:27:19 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/101</link>
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      <title>Hadji Girl</title>
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      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:26:39 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/100</link>
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      <title>Lightsaber Battle</title>
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      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:05:01 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/99</link>
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      <title>Epic Fail!</title>
      <description>&lt;img src="http://images.silentsapper.com/lifelock.jpg" alt="Lifelock Fail" border="1" width="292" height="219" /&gt;

Somehow when reading this story, a line from Family Guy came to my mind.  It goes something like:

"Do you remember when I was asking you the other day what the definition of irony was?"

[&lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/22/lifelock.flap.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories"&gt;Story&lt;/a&gt;]</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 10:45:27 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/98</link>
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      <title>Know your candidate!</title>
      <description>&lt;object width="518" height="419"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="videos=http://media.eyeblast.org/resources/2036.flv&amp;xmlfile=http://www.eyeblast.tv/Public/xml/NoThumbs.xml&amp;thumb=Http://media.eyeblast.org/thumbs/1741.jpg&amp;auto=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/FlashPlayerLight.swf" flashvars="videos=http://media.eyeblast.org/resources/2036.flv&amp;xmlfile=http://www.eyeblast.tv/Public/xml/NoThumbs.xml&amp;thumb=Http://media.eyeblast.org/thumbs/1741.jpg&amp;auto=0" width="518" height="419" wmode="window" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" allowFullScreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 12:39:18 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>I'm President Charley</title>
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      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 15:40:12 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/96</link>
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      <title>Dilbert Punchline</title>
      <description>Not sure this is snapper worthy but dilbert.com now has a mash-up section that's similar to my last post about &lt;a href="http://bitstrips.com"&gt;bitstrips.com&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href="http://dilbert.com/mashups/punchline/"&gt;http://dilbert.com/mashups/punchline&lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <author>Eric Kinsella</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:51:17 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/95</link>
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      <title>The Face to Face Reenacted</title>
      <description>try and make your own comics at &lt;a href="http://www.bitstrips.com"&gt;bitstrips.com&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;object width="480" height="400"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://bitstrips.com/swfs/reader.swf?comic_id=19135"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://bitstrips.com/swfs/reader.swf?comic_id=19135" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="480" height="400"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;</description>
      <author>Eric Kinsella</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:33:12 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/94</link>
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      <title>Real Life Rick Roll</title>
      <description>[&lt;a href="http://blog.rocketboom.com"&gt;via rocketblog&lt;/a&gt;]
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      <author>Eric Kinsella</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:27:33 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/93</link>
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      <title>Bro Search</title>
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Sorry for another video post, but this one was just too &lt;strong&gt;HAWESOME&lt;/strong&gt; to pass up.  I cannot believe &lt;a href="http://dabootski.com"&gt;Dabootski&lt;/a&gt; did not come up with this idea first!

Best part, looks like they are going to make it for realz!

&lt;a href="http://www.brosearch.com"&gt;http://www.brosearch.com&lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:01:13 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/92</link>
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      <title>When countries go insane!</title>
      <description>&lt;img src="http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2008/03/ExtinguisherBNPS_175x125.jpg" style="padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 5px;" align="left" /&gt; I have been sitting here the past 5 minutes running this over in my head thinking that this must be some sort of joke.  This reads something straight out of Jay Leno's Headlines on Monday nights.

Aparantly, the U.K. is banning fire extinguishers for being a "fire" hazard??????  WTF!!!!!

&amp;nbsp;

[&lt;a href="http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=115014&amp;in_page_id=34&amp;ito=newsnow"&gt;Linkage&lt;/a&gt;]</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:28:11 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/91</link>
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      <title>Code Monkey versus Software Simian</title>
      <description>&lt;img src="http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert20122245080304.gif"  width="552" height="186" /&gt;
[&lt;a href="http://www.dilbert.com/"&gt;via dilbert&lt;/a&gt;]</description>
      <author>Eric Kinsella</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:08:25 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/90</link>
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      <title>Snapper Improvements</title>
      <description>It has been a while since the last post, and I noticed that the last few have all been video posts, so I will take this in a different direction.

What would you ("you" being Jason &amp; Eric, since you are the only two on here) like to see added to the Snapper?

The one thing I have been meaning to get added would be a category/tag system for posts.  Let me know what would be some helpful/useful upgrades.</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:23:11 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/89</link>
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      <title>iBand</title>
      <description>[&lt;a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=Mh0VX74alwk"&gt;video&lt;/a&gt;] [&lt;a href="http://www.iband.at"&gt;band site&lt;/a&gt;] [&lt;a href="http://digg.com/apple/iPhone_Guitar_2"&gt;iphone guitar&lt;/a&gt;] [&lt;a href="http://digg.com/software/Piano_Apps_for_iPhone_iAno"&gt;iphone piano&lt;/a&gt;]

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      <author>Eric Kinsella</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:28:14 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/88</link>
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      <title>Putting even more H in the Hawesome Home Office</title>
      <description>[&lt;a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/diy/how-to-build-a-tetris-shelf-264541.php"&gt;Tetris Shelves&lt;/a&gt;] [&lt;a href="http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/11/turn_your_walls_into_a_de.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890"&gt;Desktop Wall: File Organizer&lt;/a&gt;] [&lt;a href="http://www.whatisblik.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&amp;Store_Code=B&amp;Product_Code=BL-IAM-LRG"&gt;I am 8-bit large: wall decal&lt;/a&gt;] [&lt;a href="http://www.fathead.com/Entertainment/star-wars/boba-fett/"&gt;boba fett: fathead&lt;/a&gt;]

And now... &lt;a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/22/han-solo-in-carbonit.html"&gt;Han Solo in Carbonite Desk&lt;/a&gt; [&lt;a href="http://www.boingboing.net"&gt;via boingboing&lt;/a&gt;]

&lt;a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/22/han-solo-in-carbonit.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://craphound.com/images/Desk2web.jpg" border="0" width="250" height="188"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <author>Eric Kinsella</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:15:36 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/87</link>
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      <title>You do suck at photoshop</title>
      <description>[&lt;a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=U_X5uR7VC4M"&gt;video&lt;/a&gt;] [&lt;a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/01/04/funny-tutorial-you-s.html"&gt;via boingboing&lt;/a&gt;]

Already up to #6!

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      <author>Eric Kinsella</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:15:06 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/86</link>
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      <title>Remember?</title>
      <description>Remember when this is all we did during our work days?

&lt;a href="http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/02/13/rise-from-your-grave-line-rider-wii-and-ds-versions-of-flash-sensation-are-alive-kicking"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.nintendowiifanboy.com/media/2008/02/line_rider_release_lg.jpg" alt="Hinsanity" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

via &lt;a href="http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com"&gt;NintendoWiiFanboy.com&lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <author>Jason Bucki</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:47:31 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/85</link>
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      <title>Zelda + Rad Racer = Fear &amp; Loathing?</title>
      <description>This is just plain odd... [&lt;a href="http://tv.boingboing.net/2008/02/13/fear-and-loathing-in.html"&gt;via boing boing&lt;/a&gt;]

&lt;embed class='castfire_player' id='cf_7ecb9' name='cf_7ecb9' width='480' height='400' src='http://p.castfire.com/Xu7m0/video/7274/bbtv_2008-02-13-002457.flv' type='application/x-shockwave-flash'&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;

</description>
      <author>Eric Kinsella</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:49:31 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/84</link>
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      <title>The real guitar hero "dream" is alive!</title>
      <description>[&lt;a href="http://gizmodo.com/352800/guitar-rising-for-real-guitar-heroes"&gt;GuitarRising via gizmodo&lt;/a&gt;] [&lt;a href="http://www.guitarrising.com"&gt;guitarrising.com&lt;/a&gt;]

"The cool thing about Guitar Rising is that it isn't a simple videogame, but combines the fun of playing and beating scores to actually teach you how to play the real thing."

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      <author>Eric Kinsella</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:03:50 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/83</link>
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      <title>Advice on Mothers from Mr. T.</title>
      <description>&lt;object width="464" height="392"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://embed.break.com/NDQ4NDM2"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://embed.break.com/NDQ4NDM2" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="464" height="392"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:20:42 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/82</link>
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      <title>Dreamhost you sneaky little...</title>
      <description>So dreamhost went a head over the past few days and updated their rails to 2.0.2.  Now, normally, they way I thought it was suppose to work by hosting your own gems locally, that you don't rely on what dreamhost does, it runs off your local gems.

For some reason, that is not the case.  So that is why the S(n)apper has been down, it had to get upgraded to Rails 2.0.2.  But we should be back and running strong!</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:55:13 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/81</link>
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      <title>Ejector Seat: A must have for modify meetings</title>
      <description>&lt;img src="http://www.geekologie.com/2008/02/01/b52-ejector-seat.jpg" alt="Ejector Seat" /&gt;

This should be a mandatory upgrade for all conference rooms in our building.  I know I have found myself wishing numerous times there would be a way to escape a meeting quickly!</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:58:13 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/80</link>
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      <title>Rock Band is coming to the Wii</title>
      <description>&lt;img src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.nintendowiifanboy.com/media/2008/01/rockband013108.jpg" alt="Rock Bank" /&gt;

The Wii is picking up another stellar title.  EA's CEO has confirmed that Rock Band will be released for the Wii.

via [&lt;a href="http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/2008/01/31/start-saving-ea-ceo-confirms-rock-band/"&gt;Wiifanboy&lt;/a&gt;]</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:49:17 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/79</link>
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      <title>Facebook Friday Linkage</title>
      <description>I guess &lt;a href="http://s4xton.com/1644/mtns-sunday-night-program/"&gt;"Call-in Karaoke" MTN 17&lt;/a&gt; is no longer on the air but here's a little youtube slice of love to remember it by. [&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLaKbFzbL6k"&gt;video&lt;/a&gt;]

&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QLaKbFzbL6k&amp;rel=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QLaKbFzbL6k&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;</description>
      <author>Eric Kinsella</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:17:43 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/78</link>
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      <title>Patches the Horse</title>
      <description>I know that &lt;a href="http://dabootski.com"&gt;Dabootski&lt;/a&gt; has already posted this on his site, but I came across it again and just couldn't help it.  I need to resurrect Patches.

&lt;object width="464" height="392"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://embed.break.com/NDM4OTM3"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://embed.break.com/NDM4OTM3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="464" height="392"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:50:54 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/77</link>
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      <title>Dream/Nightmare</title>
      <description>I had this dream last night, well the content of the dream could classify it as a nightmare.  But the dream consisted of us getting our new PC's for work, but they ended up being these:

&lt;img src="http://www.slipperybrick.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/everex-gc3502.jpg" border="0" alt="Everex" /&gt;

Now if you are unfamiliar with this line of PC's, I will give you a quick run down.  They are sold at Walmart and are meant to be a low budget PC.  Along with these sweet PC's in my dream, we were all fitted with a 15" CRT.

I guess the dream was sparked by the phrase Sarah uttered which was, "They got a good deal!"  Something about that statement has just been lingering around in my head.  Because I think we all have experience what "good deals" have resulted around here in the IT departments.</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:19:13 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/76</link>
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      <title>iPhone guitar hero?</title>
      <description>[&lt;a href="http://digg.com/apple/iPhone_Guitar_2"&gt;via digg&lt;/a&gt;] [&lt;a href="http://www.break.com/index/ipod-guitar-hero.html"&gt;video on break.com&lt;/a&gt;]

&lt;object width="464" height="392"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://embed.break.com/NDM4ODUw"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://embed.break.com/NDM4ODUw" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="464" height="392"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size=1&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.break.com/index/ipod-guitar-hero.html"&gt;iPhone Guitar Hero&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;</description>
      <author>Eric Kinsella</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:41:16 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/75</link>
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      <title>Wii accessories getting better and better</title>
      <description>&lt;img src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.nintendowiifanboy.com/media/2008/01/trauma012208.jpg" alt="Wii accessories" /&gt;

Just when you thought you had seen all of the Wii accessories, comes the &lt;a href="http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.10843"&gt;Trauma Center Kit&lt;/a&gt;.  I mean seriously, is this what it is coming to, creating a specific accessory for each game that comes out?

I am still waiting for a post that highlights some nerd out there that is proud to own every Wii accessory ever made.  And when that day happens, the &lt;a href="http://silentsapper.com"&gt;S(n)apper&lt;/a&gt; will be here!

&lt;a href="http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.10843"&gt;http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.10843&lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:37:17 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/74</link>
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      <title>8-bit wall</title>
      <description>Think I may have found some more 8-bit goodness for the &lt;a href="http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/32"&gt;ultimate home office&lt;/a&gt;. [&lt;a href="http://www.whatisblik.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&amp;Store_Code=B&amp;Product_Code=BL-IAM-LRG"&gt;I am 8-bit large&lt;/a&gt;] [&lt;a href="http://www.whatisblik.com/walldecals.html"&gt;blik : wall decals&lt;/a&gt;] 

fyi, &lt;a href="http://www.whatisblik.com"&gt;blick&lt;/a&gt; is affiliated with &lt;a href="http://www.threadless.com/"&gt;threadless t-shirts&lt;/a&gt;.

&lt;a href="http://www.whatisblik.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&amp;Store_Code=B&amp;Product_Code=BL-IAM-LRG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.whatisblik.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/bl-iam-lrg.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <author>Eric Kinsella</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:46:15 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/73</link>
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      <title>Subversion Ignore "svn:ignore"</title>
      <description>Tired of subversion always trying to commit your log files and your tmp files?  I finally found an article that explains in plain english how to set up subversion to ignore those directories!  This will be a huge time saver for some of you.

&lt;a href="http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoUseRailsWithSubversion"&gt;http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoUseRailsWithSubversion&lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:21:49 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/72</link>
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      <title>4 reasons you might need a Macbook Air</title>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2008/01/joy_of_tech_macbook_air.gif"&gt;&lt;img src="http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2008/01/joy_of_tech_macbook_air.gif" width="550" height="532" alt="Macbook Air Reasons" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

via [&lt;a href="http://gizmodo.com/346856/4-reasons-you-absolutely-need-the-macbook-air"&gt;Gizmodo&lt;/a&gt;]</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 07:20:32 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/71</link>
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      <title>Manila envelope case becomes a reality!</title>
      <description>&lt;img src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/01/1-17-08-macbook-airmail.jpg" alt="Manila envelope" /&gt;

So yesterday, I was joking about the &lt;a href="http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/68"&gt;The First "Official" Macbook Air Case&lt;/a&gt;.  Well, it seems that today, it has become an actual reality. &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/17/airmail-the-manila-folder-macbook-air-sleeve-gets-real/"&gt;More...&lt;/a&gt;

via [&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/17/airmail-the-manila-folder-macbook-air-sleeve-gets-real/"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt;]</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:26:07 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/70</link>
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      <title>The Disintegrator</title>
      <description>&lt;object width="425" height="373"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0GAUnuuBkW4&amp;rel=1&amp;border=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0GAUnuuBkW4&amp;rel=1&amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="373"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;

Found by &lt;a href="http://dabootski.com" target="_blank"&gt;Dabootski&lt;/a&gt;

via [&lt;a href="http://disintegrator.co.uk/video.htm" target="_blank"&gt;http://disintegrator.co.uk/video.htm&lt;/a&gt;]</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:24:57 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/69</link>
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      <title>First "Official" Macbook Air Case</title>
      <description>&lt;img src="http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2008/01/manilacase2.jpg" alt="Manilla case" width="570" height="290" /&gt;

Yes, before you start getting all huffy, this is obviously fake, but I thought it was pretty funny.  And to tell you the truth, &lt;a href="http://www.apple.com" target="_blank"&gt;Apple&lt;/a&gt; has produced other products in my opinion with equal worthlessness:

&lt;a href="http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?s=topSellers&amp;fnode=home/shop_ipod/ipod_accessories/cases&amp;nplm=M9720G/B&amp;mco=B9ACE588" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/lm_altview_ipodsock.jpg"  border="0" alt="iPod socks" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:49:11 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/68</link>
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      <title>Dreamhost gets dugg [not in a good way]</title>
      <description>[&lt;a href="http://digg.com/tech_news/Dreamhost_mistakenly_bills_customers_for_multiple_years"&gt;Dreamhost mistakenly bills customers for multiple years&lt;/a&gt;]

I really like the 1st digg comment "I grossly underestimated how incompetent they were."

I bet this post gets the s[n]apper's account terminated.

In other blog news we're [&lt;a href="http://jroller.com/javadev"&gt;http://jroller.com/javadev&lt;/a&gt;] not the only one's having the &lt;a href="http://jroller.com"&gt;http://jroller.com&lt;/a&gt; login issue since Oct 2007. So is &lt;a href="http://jroller.com/cardsharp"&gt;http://jroller.com/cardsharp&lt;/a&gt;. Welcome to the club! [REF: &lt;a href="http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/roller/browse/ROL-1604?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#action_14234"&gt;ROL-1604&lt;/a&gt;]</description>
      <author>Eric Kinsella</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:28:30 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/67</link>
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      <title>Drobo just got $200 more expensive...</title>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/droboshare-makes-your-drobo-nas-for-a-price"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/01/drobo-share-top.jpg" width="177" height="200" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
[&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/droboshare-makes-your-drobo-nas-for-a-price"&gt;DroboShare makes your Drobo NAS -- for a price&lt;/a&gt;] [&lt;a href="http://www.drobo.com/products_demo.aspx"&gt;drobo in action video&lt;/a&gt;]

</description>
      <author>Eric Kinsella</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:39:14 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/66</link>
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      <title>Web Developers : part deux</title>
      <description>[&lt;a href="http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/53"&gt;original post&lt;/a&gt;]
&lt;img src="http://static.mltvacations.com/images/content/intranet/header/set9/photo_4.jpg" border="0"/&gt;
Would &lt;a href="http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/11/110906.html"&gt;ZeFrank&lt;/a&gt; call these guys 733t?</description>
      <author>Eric Kinsella</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:58:32 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/65</link>
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      <title>Eric in Iraq [photojournalist]</title>
      <description>An interesting blog of a friend of a friend. I met Eric a couple of times... [&lt;a href="http://ericiniraq.scrappydog.com"&gt;http://ericiniraq.scrappydog.com&lt;/a&gt;]</description>
      <author>Eric Kinsella</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:37:52 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/64</link>
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      <title>I believe this would qualify as hawesome</title>
      <description>&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Gz9kZh8PNVM&amp;rel=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Gz9kZh8PNVM&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;</description>
      <author>Will Watson</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:41:59 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/63</link>
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      <title>Should these be called Wii-pons?</title>
      <description>[&lt;a href="http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/2008/01/01/amazing-exciting-fantastic-and-training-body-reaction"&gt;'8 in 1' set of wiimote attachments&lt;/a&gt;] : these never get old for me.

&lt;img src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.nintendowiifanboy.com/media/2008/01/weapon010108.jpg" width="212" height="212" /&gt;</description>
      <author>Eric Kinsella</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:38:23 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/62</link>
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      <title>The Evil Eye</title>
      <description>&lt;object width="464" height="392"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://embed.break.com/NDIyNjYw"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://embed.break.com/NDIyNjYw" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="464" height="392"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:45:48 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/61</link>
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      <title>What did you score?</title>
      <description>&lt;img src="http://www.sxc.hu/pic/m/c/ct/ctechs/80510_christmas_present_1.jpg"   border="1" alt="present" /&gt;

So, the big holiday rush is over, time to start bragging.  Besides Jeremy scoring himself a nice shiny new 16GB iPod touch, what did the rest of you score that is "brag" worthy?</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:50:26 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/60</link>
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      <title>Merry Elf-mas? Or go Elf-yer-self!</title>
      <description>[&lt;a href="http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1610673491"&gt;The best little ping-pong players at One-Click Vacations say Merry Elf-mas!&lt;/a&gt;]

Make your own... [&lt;a href="http://www.elfyourself.com"&gt;elfyourself.com&lt;/a&gt;]</description>
      <author>Eric Kinsella</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:28:15 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/59</link>
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      <title>Vlogging has officially gone too far!</title>
      <description>[&lt;a href="http://revver.com/video/118847/want-a-wee-for-xmas/"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;] [&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/vlogsanta"&gt;twitter&lt;/a&gt;]

&lt;script src="http://flash.revver.com/player/1.0/player.js?mediaId:118847;width:480;height:392" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</description>
      <author>Eric Kinsella</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:25:10 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/57</link>
      <guid>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/57</guid>
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      <title>Cube design ideas</title>
      <description>I wonder what the boss would say if we remodeled our cubes?

&lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2007/12/gallery_cube_fixes/zen.jpg" class="lightwindow" rel="[Cube Remodeling]" caption="Zen" author="Justin Gollmer"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2007/12/gallery_cube_fixes/zen.jpg" alt="zen" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2007/12/gallery_cube_fixes/casino.jpg" class="lightwindow hidden" rel="[Cube Remodeling]" caption="Casino" author="Justin Gollmer"&gt;image #2&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2007/12/gallery_cube_fixes/library.jpg" class="lightwindow hidden" rel="[Cube Remodeling]" caption="Library" author="Justin Gollmer"&gt;images #3&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2007/12/gallery_cube_fixes/pub.jpg" class="lightwindow hidden" rel="[Cube Remodeling]" caption="Pub" author="Justin Gollmer"&gt;image #4&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2007/12/gallery_cube_fixes/CEOcube.jpg" class="lightwindow hidden" rel="[Cube Remodeling]" caption="CEO" author="Justin Gollmer"&gt;image #5&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2007/12/gallery_cube_fixes/sci_fi.jpg" class="lightwindow hidden" rel="[Cube Remodeling]" caption="Sci Fi" author="Justin Gollmer"&gt;image #6&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2007/12/gallery_cube_fixes/zen.jpg" class="lightwindow" rel="[Cube Remodeling]" caption="Zen" author="Justin Gollmer"&gt;Gallery&lt;/a&gt;

via [&lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/multimedia/2007/12/gallery_cube_fixes?slide=1&amp;slideView=3" target="_blank" /&gt;wired&lt;/a&gt;]</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:15:45 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/56</link>
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      <title>The Griswold family would be proud</title>
      <description>&lt;a href="//images.silentsapper.com/christmas07/tree.jpg" class="lightwindow"&gt;&lt;img src="//images.silentsapper.com/christmas07/tree_thumb.jpg" alt="X-mas Tree" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

There is this house that is along side Cedar Avenue that goes all out with their Christmas lights.  My girlfriend and I finally got around to taking a picture of it.

This puts the Griswold family to shame!

[&lt;a href="//images.silentsapper.com/christmas07/tree.jpg" class="lightwindow"&gt;Larger Image&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff0000;"&gt;WARNING:&lt;/span&gt; 2MB File&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:47:13 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/55</link>
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      <title>w00t there is this!</title>
      <description>[&lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071212/wr_nm/usa_language_dc_1"&gt;"w00t" crowned word of year by U.S. dictionary&lt;/a&gt;]

take that fakebook! i hope you enjoy second place, your recent beacon bad press...and your billions of dollars. wait. nevermind.</description>
      <author>Eric Kinsella</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:51:42 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/54</link>
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      <title>Web Developers</title>
      <description>&lt;img src="http://static.mltvacations.com/images/content/intranet/header/set11/photo_26.jpg" alt="Team Jill" /&gt;

So how do these two fit into ZeFrank's description of a good web developer?

via [&lt;a href="http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/11/110906.html" target="_blank"&gt;ZeFrank - Web Developers&lt;/a&gt;]</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:39:58 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/53</link>
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      <title>Christmas Lessons Learned</title>
      <description>&lt;img src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/05/wiimote.jpg" alt="wiimote" style="padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px;" align="left" /&gt; As this is being the first Christmas season that I have experienced with my Wii, I would like to share one very important lesson I learned last night.

My mom had dropped two of my Wii Remotes on her hardwood floor, and when I say dropped them, I mean dropped them hard.  I never thought anything of it, seeing how I have been playing &lt;a href="http://www.guitarhero.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Guitar Hero III&lt;/a&gt; pretty much non-stop lately.  Well I went to play some Zelda last night and picked up one of the remotes and tried playing.  It's wouldn't track for crap.  The cursor was all over the place.  So I tried the second one with the same results.

Fearing that I have just lost 80 dollars to two broken remotes, I take to the internets.  I do come across a forum where it talks about wiimotes that have been dropped and their IR sensor is out of whack.  One guy mentions that he contacted &lt;a href="http://www.nintendo.com" target="_blank"&gt;Nintendo&lt;/a&gt; and they told him to fix it, you turn the wiimote upside down, and give it a few "love taps" to the back.

So here I am in the living room, slapping my wiimotes like red-headed step children with no success.  I test my third wiimote that wasn't dropped, and it's doing the same thing.

Moral of the story, Christmas lights on a tree &lt;strong&gt;WILL&lt;/strong&gt; in fact screw with the signal sent to the Wii.  Turned off the lights, and whola, works perfect!

So in the process of trying to fix two "broken" remotes that we're not broken, I almost made them broken by beating them to within an inch of their lives!  Lesson learned, in a test environment, always check the control element!</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:08:01 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/52</link>
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      <title>Speaking of hawesome joysticks!</title>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/10/millennium-falcon-al.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://craphound.com/images/nilfaljoystick.jpg" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
[&lt;a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/10/millennium-falcon-al.html"&gt;Millennium Falcon all-in-one joystick game&lt;/a&gt;]

We should just have one of these laying around in the break room. w00t! double w00t!

p.s. Posting mainly to get that "mother" off the top of the s[n]apper.</description>
      <author>Eric Kinsella</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:39:31 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/51</link>
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      <title>Definition of "White Trash"</title>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e5/Skorp88/PregnantWomen1.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e5/Skorp88/PregnantWomen1.jpg" alt="White Trash" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

Something tells me lady that the jackhammers are the least of your baby's concerns.</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:54:09 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/50</link>
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      <title>My company's project process</title>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert200712087309.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert200712087309.jpg" alt="Dilbert" border="0" width="550" height="399" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

I know the image quality sucks because I had to manually shrink it down to fit, but click on the image for the full view.

This is a perfect model for how every one of our projects have been going as of lately.</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 06:32:23 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/49</link>
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      <title>Programmer or Serial Killer</title>
      <description>A fast-follower of Jason's post is the quiz: Programmer or Serial Killer.  Go through the quiz and see if you can guess from looking at pictures if the person is a Computer Programmer or a Serial Killer.

Let me know how you do!

&lt;a href="http://www.malevole.com/mv/misc/killerquiz/" target="_blank"&gt;Computer Programmer vs. Serial Killer&lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:20:07 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/48</link>
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      <title>Programmer Dress Code</title>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://www.codethinked.com/post/2007/12/The-Programmer-Dress-Code.aspx"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.codethinked.com/image.axd?picture=WindowsLiveWriter/TheProgrammerDressCode_10D17/bjarne_stroustrup_2d8ab5ce-9cd8-4410-944e-e80b448296ae.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

This is some classic shit.
Favorite quote: "...nothing says 'Computer Programming God' like flannel."

&lt;a href="http://www.codethinked.com/post/2007/12/The-Programmer-Dress-Code.aspx"&gt;Linkage&lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <author>Jason Bucki</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:09:36 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/47</link>
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      <title>R2D2 Translator</title>
      <description>&lt;img src="http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/12/r2d2_translator.jpg" alt="R2D2 Translator" /&gt;

Have you ever needed to talk to an R2 unit, but can't speak it's language?  Enter the R2D2 translator.  Just type a sentence in and it will translate it into R2D2's native language.

via [&lt;a href="http://www.r2d2translator.com/" target="_blank"&gt;r2d2translator&lt;/a&gt;]</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:55:26 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/46</link>
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      <title>One step closer to time travel...</title>
      <description>&lt;img src="http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/12/flux_capacitor_replica.jpg" height="332" width="500" border="0" alt="Flux capacitor" /&gt;

We are now one step closer to achieving time travel.  You now don't have to be a mad scientist to create a Flux Capacitor, you can just purchase one and install it into your car.

Now, if they would only sell the Mr. Fusion upgrade so that we wouldn't have to run our cars off of plutonium!

via [&lt;a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/own-your-own-flux-capacitor-no-concussion-required-330476.php" target="_blank"&gt;gizmodo&lt;/a&gt;]</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:51:30 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/45</link>
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      <title>VRX Mach 4 Racing Simulator</title>
      <description>After seeing pictures of this beauty, I have entered a state of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priapism"&gt;priapism&lt;/a&gt; and have yet to come out of it.

&lt;a href="http://www.geekologie.com/2007/12/vrx_mach_4_racing_simulator_se.php"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.geekologie.com/2007/12/03/vrx-mach-4.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

via &lt;a href="http://www.geekologie.com"&gt;geekologie.com&lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <author>Jason Bucki</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:48:02 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/44</link>
      <guid>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/44</guid>
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      <title>This Month in TC Meetings </title>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://groovy.mn"&gt;GUM&lt;/a&gt;: Dec 10 - Closures in Groovy.

&lt;a href="http://minnedemo.org"&gt;MinnDemo&lt;/a&gt;: Dec 6 - Free Beer

&lt;a href="http://www.otug.org"&gt;OTUG&lt;/a&gt;: No meeting [Next meeting: &lt;a href="http://www.otug.org"&gt;Jan 15 - Why Middle Management Matters&lt;/a&gt;]

&lt;a href="http://www.otug.org"&gt;TCJUG&lt;/a&gt;: No meeting [Next meeting: &lt;a href="http://intertech.com/UserGroups/JUGPresentation.aspx?TopicID=120"&gt;Jan 16 - Spring 2.5&lt;/a&gt;]

&lt;a href="http://twin-spin.cs.umn.edu"&gt;TwinSpin&lt;/a&gt;: Dec 6 - &lt;a href="http://twin-spin.cs.umn.edu/events.php?id=148"&gt;Nate Schutta (Travelers), Test Infecting the Legacy Organization &#8211; Test Driven Development (TDD)&lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <author>Eric Kinsella</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:46:26 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/43</link>
      <guid>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/43</guid>
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      <title>Human Tetris anyone?</title>
      <description>I'm 100% sure I couldn't do any of these...[&lt;a href="http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/ver/223/popup/index.php?cl=4878187"&gt;video link&lt;/a&gt;]

&lt;a href="http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/ver/223/popup/index.php?cl=4878187"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.japanprobe.com/2007/01/squeeze.gif" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <author>Eric Kinsella</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:21:35 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/42</link>
      <guid>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/42</guid>
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      <title>I want this mailbox</title>
      <description>&lt;img src="http://media1.break.com/dnet/media/2007/11/35nov28-computer-mailbox.jpg" alt="apple fanboy mailbox" /&gt;

Nothing states where your loyalty lies better than a mailbox like this!</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:40:31 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/41</link>
      <guid>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/41</guid>
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      <title>I absolutely knew it!!!!</title>
      <description>&lt;img src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.nintendowiifanboy.com/media/2007/11/consumer_whore_cs_112607.jpg" alt="wii prices" border="1" /&gt;

I really wish I had some more courage when it came to spending money, and some relaxed morales.  I was at Walmart with my girlfriend not too long ago and they had three Wii's sitting there.  I thought of buying all three to sell on &lt;a href="http://ebay.com"&gt;EBay&lt;/a&gt; this x-mas season, but quickly played it off thinking they won't be as popular this year.

I was &lt;strong&gt;DEAD&lt;/strong&gt; wrong.  They are selling anywhere from 500-650 a piece right now!  Of course this is just a crash course lesson on why I will be a broke developer for the rest of my life and not a "Donald Trump" of the world.</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:38:02 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/40</link>
      <guid>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/40</guid>
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      <title>Agile Programming</title>
      <description>&lt;img src="http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2666700071126.gif" alt="agile programming" width="100%" /&gt;</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:23:14 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/39</link>
      <guid>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/39</guid>
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      <title>X-mas Wishlist : part 2</title>
      <description>the title says it all...[&lt;a href="http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/2007/11/20/wii-light-sword-lets-you-relive-the-shame-of-the-star-wars-kid"&gt;Wii Light Sword lets you relive the shame of the Star Wars Kid&lt;/a&gt;] via [&lt;a href="http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com"&gt;wiifanboy&lt;/a&gt;]

&lt;a href="http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/2007/11/20/wii-light-sword-lets-you-relive-the-shame-of-the-star-wars-kid"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.nintendowiifanboy.com/media/2007/11/wii-light-sword-0-dsf.jpg" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <author>Eric Kinsella</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:12:45 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/38</link>
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      <title>Oh my...</title>
      <description>&lt;img src="http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/11/gas%20grabber2.jpg" alt="Fart protector" /&gt;

I have now seen everything!

via [&lt;a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/mojo-filter/keep-noxious-farts-at-bay-with-the-gas-grabber-325461.php" target="_blank"&gt;gizmodo&lt;/a&gt;]</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:10:08 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/37</link>
      <guid>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/37</guid>
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      <title>Happy Thanksgiving Sapper Style [up-update]</title>
      <description>Once again proving that putting the "Imperial Death March" as the background to any video sets the hawesome factor at 11! [&lt;a href="http://blip.tv/file/496000"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;]
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p.s. To help your holidays sail smoother the editors of "The Daily Sapper" want you to email &lt;a href="http://karldmoore.blogspot.com/2007/11/im-software-developer-but-i-dont-work.html"&gt;the following blog entry&lt;/a&gt; to your relatives before you see them over the holiday season. Truer words have never been written. You can thanks us later. &lt;a href="http://karldmoore.blogspot.com/2007/11/im-software-developer-but-i-dont-work.html"&gt;I'm a Software Developer, but I don't work with computers!&lt;/a&gt;

p.s.s. &lt;a href="http://vids.myspace.com"&gt;http://vids.myspace.com&lt;/a&gt; still works here at one-click but plain vanilla myspace.com does not. any bets on how long that lasts?</description>
      <author>Eric Kinsella</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:39:49 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/36</link>
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      <title>X-mas Wishlist : part 1</title>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/9d54/?cpg=61H"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/front/extremerange_wifirouter.jpg" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

"The Extreme Range WiFi Router blasts out 802.11b and 802.11g at 30dBm of power - the strongest radio allowed by the FCC. With a radio that powerful, your WiFi's signal can reach up to &lt;b&gt;a quarter mile&lt;/b&gt; in all directions! ... It's a buffet of all you can eat bandwidth, and you've got the biggest fork at the table!" [&lt;a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/9d54/?cpg=61H"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;]
</description>
      <author>Eric Kinsella</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:31:42 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/35</link>
      <guid>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/35</guid>
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      <title>r u l33t?</title>
      <description>hack the coke machine [&lt;a href="http://www.5min.com/Video/How-To-Hack-a-Soda-Machine-2497"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;]  [&lt;a href="http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/hacking_a_soda.html"&gt;via SoS&lt;/a&gt;]
&lt;object width='400' height='325' id='FiveminPlayer'&gt;&lt;param name='allowfullscreen' value='true'/&gt;&lt;param name='allowScriptAccess' value='always'/&gt;&lt;param name='movie' value='http://www.5min.com/Embeded/2497/'/&gt;&lt;embed src='http://www.5min.com/Embeded/2497/' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' width='400' height='325' allowfullscreen='true' allowScriptAccess='always'&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;img style="visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;" border=0 width=0 height=0 src="http://counters.gigya.com/wildfire/CIMP/Jmx0PTExOTU1OTAxNDgwNDUmcHQ9MTE5NTU5MDE4ODg2MSZwPTEyNDUxJmQ9Jm49.jpg" /&gt;</description>
      <author>Eric Kinsella</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:26:35 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/34</link>
      <guid>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/34</guid>
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      <title>Wait, did he seriously do that?</title>
      <description>Pretty much the complete opposite of what my hot asian mail order robot brides will do:

&lt;table width="400" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="5" rowspan="3" valign="top"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.spikedhumor.com/images/vcleft.gif" width="5" height="300"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="390" height="5" valign="top"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.spikedhumor.com/images/vctop.gif" width="390" height="5"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="5" rowspan="3" valign="top"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.spikedhumor.com/images/vcright.gif" width="5" height="300"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td height="273" valign="top"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.spikedhumor.com/player/vcplayer.swf?file=http://www.spikedhumor.com/videocodes/133132/data.xml&amp;auto_play=false" quality="high" scale="noscale" bgcolor="#000000" width="100%" height="100%" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td height="22" valign="top"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/133132/Project_Aiko_Female_robot.html" target="_new"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.spikedhumor.com/images/vcbot.gif" width="390" height="22" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description>
      <author>Jason Bucki</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:05:32 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/33</link>
      <guid>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/33</guid>
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      <title>putting the H in hawesome home hoffice</title>
      <description>"A German designer created der Desktop f&#252;r die Wand, a 'desktop for the wall'." [&lt;a href="http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/11/turn_your_walls_into_a_de.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890"&gt;via make&lt;/a&gt;]

&lt;img src="http://www.boingboing.net/images/_blog_wallfolders.jpg" border="0"/&gt;

add &lt;a href="http://www.fathead.com/Entertainment/star-wars/boba-fett/"&gt;boba&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/diy/how-to-build-a-tetris-shelf-264541.php"&gt;tetris book shelves&lt;/a&gt; to this and my home office is going to look super-sweet!</description>
      <author>Eric Kinsella</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:42:31 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/32</link>
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      <title>this week in linkage</title>
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      <author>Eric Kinsella</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:11:58 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>Dilbert for 11/15/07</title>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2007166671115.gif" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2007166671115.gif" width="100%" alt="dilbert" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:24:25 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/30</link>
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      <title>Welcome javadev feed readers</title>
      <description>Since the fine folks at &lt;a href="http://jroller.com"&gt;jroller.com&lt;/a&gt; have left us hanging out to dry; The &lt;a href="http://silentsapper.com"&gt;Snapper on Rails&lt;/a&gt; has been kind enough to hammer us out our own little corner on the Internetz. Who knows how long &lt;a href="http://jroller.com/javadev"&gt;http://jroller.com/javadev&lt;/a&gt; will be down. Anyone want to place a wager on it? My guess is eternity.

So, if you're really bored, you could watch the progress of the following &lt;a href="http://atlassian.com/jira"&gt;Jira Issue&lt;/a&gt; and keep up to date on the nitty gritty details.
&lt;a href="http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/roller/browse/ROL-1604"&gt;http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/roller/browse/ROL-1604&lt;/a&gt;

meh.</description>
      <author>Eric Kinsella</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:50:34 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/29</link>
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      <title>The Nerd Handbook</title>
      <description>A friend of mine sent this link to me, and it is a must read for all developers.  I think it's funny because it's mostly true!

[&lt;a href="http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2007/11/11/the_nerd_handbook.html" target="_blank"&gt;The Nerd Handbook&lt;/a&gt;]</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:34:01 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/28</link>
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      <title>12 months of hawesome</title>
      <description>I finally know what to buy the buck for xmas. Sweet sassy! [&lt;a href="http://www.thelalastore.com"&gt;lala store&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.thelalastore.com"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.thelalastore.com/images/calendar_buy2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <author>Eric Kinsella</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:55:25 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/27</link>
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      <title>UK youtube killed by MLT</title>
      <description>I hope you got your fill kiddies, because as of 11/13/07, MLT has killed your rights to the UK youtube site as well.

It was a great run, more of a sprint I guess you should say.  The &lt;b&gt;man&lt;/b&gt; giveth, and the &lt;b&gt;man&lt;/b&gt; taketh away.</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:58:56 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/25</link>
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      <title>Tesla Coils + Mario Bros Theme = Hawesome</title>
      <description>&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/B1O2jcfOylU&amp;rel=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/B1O2jcfOylU&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;

Twin Solid State Musical Tesla coils playing Mario Bros theme [&lt;a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/science/tesla-coils-playing-the-mario-bros-theme-are-unsurprisingly-awesome-319384.php?autoplay=true"&gt;via Gizmodo&lt;/a&gt;] [&lt;a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=B1O2jcfOylU"&gt;uk youtube&lt;/a&gt;]</description>
      <author>Eric Kinsella</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:46:27 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>Not my kids</title>
      <description>Something tells me these dweebs had a reason to invent this product...

&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mgCPHy3agO4"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mgCPHy3agO4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;

And by the way "dweeb" is the best word ever.</description>
      <author>Jason Bucki</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:01:54 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>How not to be hawesome</title>
      <description>&lt;img src="http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/09/welcome2thesocial2.jpg" alt="zune guy" border="1" /&gt;

So, after basically becoming the laughing stock of the internets by getting three Microsoft Zune tattoos, this guy is now getting his name legally changed to "Microsoft Zune".

They best part is that one of his tattoos which simply reads "Welcome to the social" which &lt;b&gt;WAS&lt;/b&gt; Zune's tagline, has now been nixed by Microsoft. 

Dude, give it up, that product was DOA before it was released.  It's a dead product and will never combat the popularity of the iPod.

&lt;a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gigantic-mistakes/zune-tattoo-guy-legally-changing-his-name-to-microsoft-zune-is-clearly-insane-318794.php" target="_blank"&gt;Zune Tattoo Guy Legally Changing His Name to 'Microsoft Zune,' is Clearly Insane&lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:41:32 -0600</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/22</link>
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      <title>The Last Starfighter</title>
      <description>&lt;img src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2007/11/the-last-starfighter-case-view.jpg" alt="the last star fighter" border="1" /&gt;

For any of you that grew up on this movie, which would include me, you were probably as upset as I was that the game in the movie was never made into real life.  Wait no longer.  Some guy ported it into a replica arcade cabinet, identical to the one used in the movie.

You can also download a free executable copy of the game as well.  Click the link to download the game:

&lt;a href="http://www.roguesynapse.com/games/last_starfighter/Starfighter.exe"&gt;The Last Starfighter&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: #ff0000;"&gt;NOTICE:&lt;/span&gt; MLT  Employees, this site is blocked by the firewall.

&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/the-last-starfighter-arcade-cabinet/" target="_blank"&gt;The Last Starfighter arcade cabinet&lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:39:41 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>Relationship advice from a Saudi Cleric</title>
      <description>I don't even have to write much about this, just read the article.  I couldn't help but think to myself that this has got to be a joke, but this is their lifestyle.

Best quote from the article:

"Unfortunately, many husbands beat their wives only when they get mad, and when they start beating, it as if they are punching a wall &#8211; they beat with their hands, right and left, and sometimes use their feet. Brother, it is a &lt;b&gt;human being you are beating&lt;/b&gt;. This is forbidden. He must not do this."

&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,307680,00.html" target="_blank"&gt;Saudi Marriage 'Expert' Advises Men in 'Right Way' to Beat Their Wives&lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:02:29 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Star Trek Coffin</title>
      <description>&lt;img src="http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/10/st_casket.gif" alt="Star Trek Coffin" border="0" /&gt;

So I posted earlier about the star trek putter.  If that wasn't nerdy enough, you can now be willing "to go where no man has gone before" and be buried in an official Star Trek Coffin.

&lt;a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/star-trek-coffin/star-trek-coffin-warps-your-corpse-to-the-final-nerd-frontier-317341.php" target="_blank"&gt;Star Trek Coffin Warps Your Corpse To the Final Nerd Frontier&lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:17:27 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>$100 HD-DVD Player at Walmart</title>
      <description>&lt;img src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2007/11/cheap-wal-mart-hd-a2.jpg" alt="Toshiba HD-DVD Player" border="1" /&gt;

As pointed out by the Buckmaster, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com" target="_blank"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; has posted an article stating that Walmart will begin selling Toshiba HD-DVD player for $100 this Friday.

That is almost on par for price as a standard DVD player.  Very very tempting.

&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/01/toshiba-hd-a2-hd-dvd-player-100-this-friday-wal-mart/" target="_blank"&gt;Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD player: $100, this Friday, Wal-Mart&lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:08:14 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/18</link>
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      <title>A truly hawesome dog</title>
      <description>&lt;img src="http://www.boingboing.net/200710241336.jpg" /&gt;

&lt;a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/24/flyer-for-an-awesome.html"&gt;via BoingBoing&lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <author>Jason Bucki</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:57:16 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/17</link>
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      <title>This week in best blog entries</title>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://rmh.blogs.com/weblog/2007/10/going-leeroy-je.html"&gt;Going "Leeroy Jenkins" on Analysis&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href="http://blogs.tedneward.com/2007/10/30/Welcome+To+The+Shitty+Code+Support+Group.aspx"&gt;Welcome to the Shitty Code Support Group&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href="http://tssblog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/10/30/is-ruby-the-new-vb"&gt;Is Ruby the new Visual Basic?&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href="http://thediscoblog.com/2007/10/25/this-podcast-doesnt-stink-man/"&gt;This podcast doesn&#8217;t stink, man&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href="http://venkatreddy.in/2007/10/22/crap4j-for-java-code-quality/"&gt;CRAP4J for Java Code Quality&lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <author>Eric Kinsella</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:02:18 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/16</link>
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      <title>Damn You Pownce</title>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://dabootski.com"&gt;dabootski.com&lt;/a&gt; just got done with its Twitterfied make-over. I really wanted to use you Pownce but "a day late and a dollar short..."

&lt;a href="http://ajaxian.com/archives/pownce-announces-new-api" target="_blank"&gt;Pownce Announces New API&lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <author>Jason Bucki</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:19:47 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/15</link>
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      <title>How do you spell Irony?</title>
      <description>&lt;img src="http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/10/mbprowind.jpg" align="left" alt="Macbook Pro" /&gt; So the question stands, how do you spell Irony.  Well, I would say that this article is a good way to spell it.  

According to PC World's latest tests, if you are looking for a laptop that will run Windows Vista the best, look no farther than the Macbook Pro.

&lt;a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/irony/macbook-pro-is-the-fastest-windows-vista-notebook-317060.php" target="_blank"&gt;MacBook Pro Is the Fastest Windows Vista Notebook&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:15:38 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/14</link>
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      <title>Strange USB Drives</title>
      <description>&lt;img src="http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/10/doughnut_usb.jpg" alt="Doughnut USB Drive" /&gt;

Is it just me, or are they starting to make USB drives out of the strangest stuff.  Not only does it just look absolutely strange plugged into your computer, but it's also awkward to have to lug around with you.

&lt;a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/do-not-eat/doughnut+shaped-usb-drive-reminds-you-its-time-for-lunch-316788.php" target="_blank"&gt;Doughnut-Shaped USB Drive Reminds You It's Time for Lunch&lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:26:03 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/13</link>
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      <title>Star Trek Putter</title>
      <description>&lt;img src="http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/10/enterprise_putter.jpg" border="0" alt="Star Trek Putter" /&gt;

Something tells me that if John was a serious golfer, this would be his #1 club.

&lt;a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/star-trek/star-trek-enterprise-putter-destroys-romulan-birdies-of-prey-316930.php" target="_blank"&gt;Star Trek Enterprise Putter Destroys Romulan Birdies of Prey&lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:21:59 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>On Eric's X-mas Wish List...</title>
      <description>I can just see Eric coming to work rocking one of these the week after X-mas... F'ing nerds.

&lt;img src="http://www.geekologie.com/2007/10/30/star-wars-shirts.jpg" /&gt;

&lt;a href="http://www.geekologie.com/2007/10/star_wars_costume_tees_out_of.php"&gt;via Geekologie&lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <author>Jason Bucki</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:03:45 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/11</link>
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      <title>Spice Up Your Wii Wrist Strap</title>
      <description>&lt;img src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.nintendowiifanboy.com/media/2007/10/blue_feath_wendigratz_etsy.jpg" alt="Wow!" border="1" /&gt;

I've seen a lot of accessories for the Wii in my day, some good, some bad.  This might rate as one of the worst yet.  I dream of the day I go to somebody's house and find that they have purchased one of these (Bucki)!

&lt;a href="http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/2007/10/30/dress-up-those-wrist-straps/" target="_blank"&gt;Dress up those wrist straps&lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:04:09 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Wi-Fi Detecting T-Shirt</title>
      <description>&lt;img src="http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/10/Picture%2032.png" align="left" /&gt;Oh man, this was too good to pass up.  Nothing, and I mean nothing, let's the world know how big of an inter-nerd you are by wearing this t-shirt.

&lt;a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fashion/wi+fi-detector-shirt-self+detects-geeks-307516.php" target="_blank"&gt;Wi-Fi Detector Shirt, Self-Detects Geeks&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:32:31 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/9</link>
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      <title>Hard Drive Dock</title>
      <description>&lt;img src="http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/10/CRSU2.jpg" alt="HDD Dock" width="100%" /&gt;

The hard drive dock.  Now you can take your old hard drives, whether it be a 3.5" or 2.5" drive and simply stick it in the dock and it will instantly show up on your computer as a drive.

Perfect for getting some data off an old drive without having to crack the case of your computer.

&lt;a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/hard-drive/hdd-dock-plugs-bare-sata-drives-like-nes-cartridges-312747.php" target="_blank"&gt;HDD USB Dock Plugs Bare SATA Drives Like NES Cartridges&lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:24:06 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/8</link>
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      <title>Hawesome New Rails 2.0 Features</title>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/9/30/rails-2-0-0-preview-release"&gt;Initial release of Rails 2.0.&lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <author>Jason Bucki</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:28:09 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://silentsapper.com/main/view_post/3</link>
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      <title>Welcome to the Sapper 2.0</title>
      <description>The sapper has been updated!  The Sapper is now riding the rails, W00t W00t!

There is still a lot of functionality coming down the pipe, so stay tuned kids!  The Snapper really enjoys rails, so much smoother than working with ASP!  The Snapper however does not enjoy Capistrano!  Very not HAWESOME, until it's installed and working properly!

Anyways, stop back often, many more additions coming soon!</description>
      <author>Andy Erickson</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:54:57 -0500</pubDate>
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