It looks like the "new" 500GB model is the exact same as the "old" 500GB model, part numbers are identical. Appears that they are not offering the 320 and 250 anymore, and only the 750 has the 8 GB flash. Hopefully whatever firmware they are using in the next gen will get back ported to the older models.

I want one of these really bad, for a few reasons.

Wouldn't it be awkward for the battery to die just before you finish sawing off their leg? What now? Do you rip and pull, bite through the rest, or run away? I'm sticking with internal combustion for this one.

In this were to unimaginably happen to a stradivarius, I am pretty sure the audience would rise as one from their seats and hang the violinist from the light rigging.

Yeah, I don't really see having a problem with rusting. Just never use soap and if you have to wash it use water only and DRY REALLY WELL. I live in the southeast USA, land of high humidity, and I never have a problem with my cast iron skillets rusting.

Mollification accepted :) A Christmas story is not a classic classic, like a Christmas Carol, It's a Wonderful Life and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Relatively I consider it modern, but not ultra modern like Elf, and, hopefully, Arthur Clause.

Also, you should really, really see that movie. It's a modern classic. "A red rider BB gun? You'll shoot your eye out!"

Obvious reference to a great line from "A Christmas Story", specifically from the scene where the family goes to a Chinese restaurant on Christmas eve, a scene to which raytheater was referring by his "Far ra ra ra ra, ra ra ra ra" line, apparently not so obvious.

"Strap a rocket onto the asteroid" was addressed in The Hammer of God by Arthur C. Clarke. Great read. One of those near-future SF stories where space travel is sub-light and follows newtonian physics and all that.

Has your Christmas dinner ever smiled at you?

I don't dry out my trash before I bag and can it. Sometimes the bag leaks. Then you have hell-water in the bottom.

Actually, this is as explosive as a water balloon; not at all. ALL energy is derived from kinetic energy of launcher. Your dry ice fun resulted from the significant volume increase as solid CO2 becomes gas CO2. As you have witnessed, that is explosive when it is contained.

This is an overly simplistic view of things. Unless your local business sources their merchandise from local factories, which is very unlikely for anything except for food, they are buying from the same foreign factories the big box retailers do. The managers and employees at your big stores live nearby just as the…

Great article Eric. Seems a little out of place here, and I mean that as a sincere compliment.

Thank goodness the good Doctor didn't mention flossing.

Ok Doctor, we need to talk. I have you hearted (and am not heartless myself), but isn't there a point where this comic gets old?

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I really appreciate the motives behind this. However, the approach and execution are off.

Sounds like me. I especially like using skydrive to get my onenote notebooks on my ipod touch. The ios onenote app is not perfect but it works great for me.

Man, being second (or third) fiddle to Dropbox has got to kill the people at Spideroak. They serve the same market as dropbox, but do pretty much everything better. It's crazy how branding can be so much more powerful than products and service.