I don't understand. Maybe it's pro-Windows, maybe it's anti-Windows, or maybe that abject confusion is the point? Either way, it's hardcore for hard coders.

Check the comments on this link for more geek tats. Come on Max...an AMD tattoo is screaming your name.

Another site with the artist's explanation here at ModBlog.

What Paul loves most is the idea of explaining this tattoo to his grandkids, when Windows 98 is so outdated as to be completely obsolete.

Wasn't Win98 pretty much obsolete when it was released?

If you're not on Flickr and you have a digital camera you're pretty much missing out on awesomeness. It's like MySpace for photographers only reading Flickr posts doesn't automatically deduct IQ points from your brainmeats...like MySpace.

I like to check the Flickr blog now and then. They always have great selections of user submitted photos as well as contests, events and general silliness. Have a look.

Well of course I couldn't pass this one up. It's a tech mod and a car thing...and a MINI at that. And following along the lines of the Lego mod USB drive that Kurtis posted, I felt it fitting to mention.

Instructables.com is becoming one of my favorite websites. This is a decent write up on how the mod was done. Some of the instructables projects aren't so well documented and some are ridiculously detailed. It's a great site to help release some of that atrophied creativity stored up in the recesses of your brain box.

So I just received a survey e-mail from the Zune Product Team. Little did they know I wasn't a real customer but a reviewer. And as I've just finished reviewing a Zune, I was ripe with criticism (the review will be up in the next few days, right Kurtis?). And while it was painfully obvious that Microsoft was really just trying to see how well (or poorly) they've been marketing the Zune, the survey also appeared to be a score card for such services as the Zune Marketplace and the wire-less music sharing features. With questions like:

"What MP3 player comes to mind when you think of wire-less music sharing?"

Don't pat yourselves on the back too much there, guys.

So the bit that really annoyed me was that I spent the better part of 45 minutes filling this thing out. Nearly 50 pages of survey. Now granted since I review MP3 players it's a fair bet that I'm more familiar with the various product lines than the average Zune purchaser. As such I'm sure my responses probably fed additional fields into the survey server and resulted in a longer click session for yours truly. But at the end, after I had taken the time to fill the stinking thing out what do I get for my troubles? NOTHING...not even a thank you! No, "thanks for filling out our survey", "thank you for buying a Microsoft Product", not even a "good luck trying to sell that Zune on eBay" taunt. At the conclusion of the survey all that happened was a page redirect to the ZuneNet website. I'm glad I gave them low marks for customer service.

Just doing my good deed for the day. Freecycle has been around for a while but its usefulness hasn't waned. I've just freecycled two desktop printers I no longer needed to two very happy recipients. Freecycle isn't limited to computers, of course. In the past I've received an old fashioned style push lawnmower that works perfectly for the little strip of grass in my otherwise fully mulched yard.

The Freecycle Network™ is made up of many individual groups across the globe. It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns.

The network is usually made up of Yahoo! groups or similar e-mail/bulletin board sites. Our local Freecycle is very active and often has loads of great stuff...all for FREE...all recycled.

The Freecycle Network was started in May 2003 to promote waste reduction in Tucson's downtown and help save desert landscape from being taken over by landfills. The Network provides individuals and non-profits an electronic forum to "recycle" unwanted items. One person's trash can truly be another's treasure!

I've found that many not-so-tech savvy folks will happily take an older, slower computer to use as an e-mail station or web surfing machine. I mean let's face it, you're not going to get much on eBay for that old Pentium III anyway. Might as well give it to someone who can use it, right?

Ah, the good ol' Onion. If only they did product reviews.

So, OK, soda isn't by definition "tech" but this is a review of soft drinks...and we ARE a review site. Good lord Orbitz soda was horrid. I remember getting one from the "Kum & Go" (yes, that is really the name of the store) when I was in college. It truly tasted like chunky hazardous waste.

"Well, you assume our product tastes like some crap you don't like, so we're going to actually make it taste like that crap you don't like." Needless to say, Crystal By Pepsi lasted half as long as its already short-lived predecessor.

I've also heard that New Coke was invented not as a marketing scheme but because the hazardous substance transportation regulations were changed and original Coke, being a fairly strong acid, would have been considered hazardous substance. Trucks hauling original Coke would have had to been marked with hazardous liquid placards. So a less acidic "New Coke" was born. But some creative lobbying changed the law for consumer products and original Coke was reborn as Coke Classic. Now, none of this is substantiated, mind you and I'm way off topic...but it makes you think. Think about soda.

The company only halfway caved at first, keeping New Coke but bringing back the original formula as "Coca-Cola Classic," a moniker that stuck for far longer than needed, because I remember drinking cans with Coca-Cola Classic logos on them wayyyy after New Coke had finally been annihilated.