I was also trying to figure out the ulterior motive too. This is only in Shenzhen so I think the electric bike manufacturers didn't pay the enough bribes to the local government. Think of this as the local government making an example of an industry so that other industries will pay up.

$400 isn't that bad considering the Imperial Shuttle is $260. [shop.lego.com]

I need subtitles for two reasons:

yeah, but this is a very direct route. I like mine going from sewage => fertilizer/water => grass => cattle => delicious burgers => stomach => toilet => sewage.

Southern California: it's going to take two hands to count the drop calls in the last week.

I see a cartoon chicken.

That's a lot of Asians in London.

Is Olga Kurylenko going to make a cameo?

my hands still hurt from playing Descent. That game requires three hands to play well. There's no perfect controller for playing Descent.

Good to hear the WNDR4000 fixed the USB performance issue. That was my biggest gripe with the WNDR3xxx series.

Probably not. The MBA11 runs very cool, we have one here in the office and it runs about as cool as an iPad. Of course, we're not running Photoshop or encoding videos on it.

@saulpimpson: I never did finish Duke Nukem 3D. The fake 3D made me sick after 15 minutes. I think I made it to spacecraft level with the homage to Star Trek in the hidden room.

Can we all pool a little money together for that man to get a better computer? How old is that thing? Looks like it's an IBM XT system. I'm aware that's probably not his main computer just the computer for controlling the machining. But still that thing is ancient.

Which one do you have? My girlfriend's 2009 Macbook is still doing about 4 1/2 hrs on her regular usage. And my 2009 Toshiba is still doing about 2 1/2 hrs with BatteryBar reporting 0% wear. I probably go on battery 2-3 times/week.

Funny how this was on Penny-Arcade today.

There are two features I would like to really see: system level virtual desktop support and a good Expose copy.

I'm not using a touchscreen to replace my remote. I need to feel the buttons and I don't want to look down at the screen.

@lrgmnky: +1

@theorieofself: Anti-lobby? I figure it was the coal industry paying Gizmodo for this.

Define "fairly extensive". Anything less than 1TB of divx/xvid videos isn't extensive.