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You know these people. Sure you do. Oh, you’ve tried to forget, but the knowledge is there. In your mind. Festering.

Plasma Pong. Further proof that sufficiently advanced GPU technology is indistinguishable from Very Hard Drugs.

Leaving aside for a moment the fact that “360″ is clearly the new “XP”, I need one of these. Actually, probably need half a dozen of them, but let’s start small and ramp up.

While clip-art webcomics are not exactly new, Wondermark adds a dash of spice to an established form by giving a 19th-century look and feel to decidedly 21st-century humor and technology.

No. 74, In Which Thanks are Made For Nothing, crosses the line from mere cleverness into genius. I’ve ordered a print. (Hey, I had to.)

Certain of my Mac-using friends — who know who they are — insist upon composing their messages with that platform’s Mail.app, which likes to honor a tradition established by its apparent idol, Microsoft Outlook, and indiscriminately break any line longer than 80 columns. Should such a line happen to consist of a URL, well, too bad.

After reassembling broken links by hand for the umpteenth time, I finally got sick of it and decided to find a Firefox extension that would solve the problem for me. Cue URL Link, which lets you highlight any chunk of text in Firefox and treat is as a URL, opening it in either the current window or a new tab. It reassembles broken links en passant, but its usefulness extends to any situation — as frequently arises on, for instance, message boards — where someone supplied a URL but for whatever reason didn’t, or couldn’t, turn it into an actual hyperlink.

Joe Bob says check it out.