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A neat stainless steel cup, balanced so that it sits at a tilt when empty, but gradually rolls upright as it’s filled.

A portable speaker designed to look like a power-up box from Super Mario Brothers.
I’d love to get one, but I’m scared it would be broken by me or someone else head-butting it, hoping that an extra life would come out.

An eBay auction for an awesome art deco Chinese phone.
The best part is the item description. It’s just hypnotically wonderful:
The photo was screened in nature condition. 99.98% similar to the real item, and you can justice this item factually. please enjoy this item from every aspect and angel, and enjoy its pretty, favor [...]

The hardware problems have mostly been bludgeoned into submission. After spending a while hoping there was a solution which didn’t involve screwdrivers and crawling around under the desk, I gave in and started moving cables at random.
I eventually got it to work by moving the disk from one of the ‘main’ SATA channels to [...]

Whenever I’ve done backups of my home PC, I’ve pretty much just saved things like the website data and my programming projects, and ignored all the mp3s on the machine. The thinking was “Hey, I’ve got all the original CDs, so they’re, like, ready-made backups.”
Then I started thinking “You know, having to re-rip all [...]

Hooray for the ‘flu followed by a week of weird Internet connectivity problems. I’ve been having to spend time out in the big room instead, which is scary. There are bears out there…
Anyway, on to more important matters: I’d very much like to replace the ridiculous number of power-strips in my house with these, but [...]

This is pretty old now, but I’d still like one for the kitchen. (Although the original version had better knife placement.)
 
 
 

I don’t think I’d ever use a watch with a built-in circular slide rule, but it’s still lovely.
 
 
 
 

“This is what [...]