When the CrunchPad story came out earlier today, the first thing I did was check the weaselly Fusion Garage website, to see what type of babble they were spouting.  There wasn’t much there, and there still isn’t.  They did have a blog, though- which has mysteriously disappeared.  If you haven’t seen FSJ’s take, it’s excellent.

We’ve all heard of the famous Blue Screen Of Death.  I remember my first <ahem> Dell.  It ran smoothly for a month or so, then I got the “illegal operation” message..and That Sound.  The sound associated with a Windows error.  It gave me a knot in my stomach.  And I recall saying, “What illegal operation?  I didn’t do anything wrong!”  That was 1997.  So now here’s a story on the Black Screen Of Death.  Must have something to do with this guy is all I can figure.

That’s the basis for this article.  Top quote:

“Maybe they’re trying to be good partners and not bullying as much, but that’s because they aren’t so fearsome anymore.  It’s hard to be a bully when you’re not really bigger and stronger than everyone else.”

-Gary Rivlin, author of “The Plot to Get Bill Gates“

The great thing is, you don’t have to clean up the fireplace afterwards.

It looks like Kris Kringle needs to update his Mac. He should visit the Apple Store- has he heard of them?   (We all know they’re not made at the North Pole.)  Other than that, Cyber Monday sales are up 16% year over year.

Because his stock is going absolutely bananas.  

Yes, it’s like comparing a 1982 Ford Fiesta (had one) against a 2009 Aston Martin DBS (sigh, won’t ever have one) but that’s what CNET UK’s Crave blog decided to do.  Get all the info here.

This one comes from dear reader Roshan, who spotted it at the Philadelphia airport. Great work!

We’re trying to find someone who can gather up a bunch of Windows death screens and make them into a collage image of the Beastmaster.

Maybe you’ve heard that uber-blogger Michael Arrington of TechCrunch has been trying to build a tablet computer called the CrunchPad, and supposedly he was going to kick everyone’s ass, including ours, with a $300 device that would be better than anything else in the world. Alas, tragedy has struck, and the CrunchPad is dead, as Mike explains in a very sad post today. What happened is, Arrington had a partner on the project, a company called Fusion Garage. But somehow Fusion Garage decided that they were just going to take over the CrunchPad and sell it on their own, without Arrington. Whoops. How’d this happen? Arrington says the very dashing guy who runs Fusion Garage, Chandra Bhenchodaramanakrishnan (photo) won’t return his calls or emails. Hence, lawsuits. Or so Arrington says.

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Well, it begins with a “T.“