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Well the elusive iPhone has been captured, dissected and photographed and is now ready to be stuffed and mounted. Somewhere in the night time sky a star has gone out.
[via MAKE]
iPhone Disassembly
If your all keen on getting one of these marvels on modern telephony technology you may want to get the perfect book for any iPhone owner: 
I have been trying this out and I can genuinely say that I’m impressed.
The project live.linuX-gamers.net was founded with the idea to present Linux games at the Linuxtag exhibition in a novel way. A collection of games should be shown to directly run from DVD without the user in need to know about Linux or care about his system. After some intense brainstorming sessions the team decided to create and publish this DVD as a live distribution project. Thus an additional and very difficult problem had to be solved: The dvd should run on every x86 PC out there.
I think this sums up who man’s best friend actually is.
Cats will always remain mysterious animals–but exactly where they came from is no longer a riddle. A genetic study has shown that the ancestors of all of today’s domestic cats prowled the Near East. The work bolsters the notion that cats became useful to humans when agriculture started–which scientists believe happened in the Near East–forcing people to protect grain stores from rodents.
A Fertile Domestication of Cats — Holden 2007 (628): 1 — ScienceNOW
I found some great driving tips, handy things like never let your arms cross over the wheel. Why? Because if there was an accident and your hands were in the way of the air bag you might break your own jaw. I never thought about that, bet you didn’t either. It has some other tips like how to back your car up in a safer fashion. It won’t teach you how to do a bootlegger turn or how to do a rolling roadblock but it might help save your life.
The hipster hacker friendly micro platform known at the Chumby should be relaesed upon the public soon. Any day now. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe. I don’t code but I’d be willing to learn if I had one of these.
David Pouge, New York Times technology writer, gives a brief overview of the pros and cons of the upcoming uber phone from Apple.
This a quick run down of what he said:
Pros: Interface is slick, it’s an iPod, screen is great, feature integration is fantastic, WiFi, Apple logo
Cons: No memory slot, can’t replace the battery yourself, service through AT&T only, EDGE data speeds suck.