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    DIY Aged Leather-Bound Hard Drive Is At Total Odds With Your Slob Lifestyle

    Gokukawa Leather Keyboard Provides Buttery Soft Typing Experience

    Cow Dies Needlessly to Coat Eee PC in Horrid Leather Modding

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    Image of diamonddnice diamonddnice
    05/13/09

    In reply to DIY Aged Leather-Bound Hard Drive Is At Total Odds With Your Slob Lifestyle
    looks like a dirty cow's ass.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/13/09

    @diamonddnice: Like there should be a cow's tail hanging down over that "hole" in the front?
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    05/13/09

    In reply to DIY Aged Leather-Bound Hard Drive Is At Total Odds With Your Slob Lifestyle
    Is leather sperm proof?
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    Image of frigg frigg
    05/13/09

    @Shamoononon thanks Rocephin: While a classy alternative to mass-produced latex, those DIY leather condoms on instructables do not work as advertised. :(
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    Image of Xterm11: ESCAPED YOUR HYPERLINK Xterm11: ESCAPED YOUR HYPERLINK
    05/13/09

    @Shamoononon thanks Rocephin: Speaking of sperm, which in turn has a relationship with STD's, which can be a virus: Remember kids, always put a condom on your USB devices to lessen the chance of getting viruses. No, I did not just go off topic.


    Why do you need to know if leather is sperm proof? Are you creating a leather condom? Or is it because you don't want it to get inside your HDD? (Which stores over a terabyte of porn)


    In other news, Xterm11 needs to go to bed.

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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    05/13/09

    @Xterm11 - The star commenter's minion: I had just gotten done reading bosskev's post...
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    Shamoononon: I shave my legs. was starred Shamoononon: I shave my legs. was unstarred
    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/13/09

    @Shamoononon thanks Rocephin: Hey, you crazy kids! Don't get me mixed up with your naughty talk! I am a well-bred and respectable man of the community with an honorable reputation to maintain.


    ;^)

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    Image of nathantrumbull nathantrumbull
    05/12/09

    In reply to DIY Aged Leather-Bound Hard Drive Is At Total Odds With Your Slob Lifestyle
    Nothing says 'I love you' like wrapping your women in cow hide.
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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    05/12/09

    @Nathan Trumbull: I say 'I love you' all the time by dawning leather… and whips… and using cuffs…
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    Image of Xterm11: ESCAPED YOUR HYPERLINK Xterm11: ESCAPED YOUR HYPERLINK
    05/13/09

    @Software_Goddess: Where do you live? Could I get an address, or a number?
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/13/09

    @Xterm11 - The star commenter's minion: Where does she live? In your dreams, buddy boy, in your dreams...
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/12/09

    In reply to DIY Aged Leather-Bound Hard Drive Is At Total Odds With Your Slob Lifestyle

    "DIY Aged Leather-Bound Hard Drive Is One Way to Hide Your Porn Collection"


    There were so many good words in that headline, Dan, such possibilities. "Leather-Bound". "Porn". "Hard". Even "DIY" (frequently, thank you!). So please forgive me for my disappointment at discovering this story was only about computer storage.


    * sigh *

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    Image of Duckspwn Duckspwn
    05/12/09

    @bosskev: Title change FTL.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/13/09

    @Duckspwn: Aargh, you're right! Well, that's why I always blockquote anything I reference from a Giz article, you never know when your joke is going to be retconned out of existence--like here (although, not completely).
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/12/09

    In reply to DIY Aged Leather-Bound Hard Drive Is At Total Odds With Your Slob Lifestyle
    Eh....wrapped around an HD enclosure, it doesn't look so fantastic. I'd say it looks like a block of old cooked meat dragged out of the fridge.


    I wonder how much hotter it makes that MyBook drive. Those things are crap enough as it is.

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    Image of matt_maslanka matt_maslanka
    12/15/08

    In reply to Gokukawa Leather Keyboard Provides Buttery Soft Typing Experience
    If you read the fine print, you'll notice that it's based on membrane switch (MENBURENSUITCHI!) technology. That's fine for your standard 5-dollar special from Wal-Mart, but for a $500 keyboard? Get the to the mechanical keyswitches NOW!


    I love the idea and might plunk down the cash for something similar, but *please* make the insides match the outsides. This is like a lot of 'luxury' electronics (I'm looking at you, Vertu!). They coat the outside of an average-to-bad piece of hardware with ludicrously expensive and frequently gaudy material and charge an arm, leg, 1st-born child and everlasting soul for it. You're left with a beautiful paperweight in a depressingly-short amount of time.


    May I start a movement for high-end electronics embedded within delicious materials (leather, wood?). Please?

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    Image of SegamanXero SegamanXero
    12/15/08

    @matt_maslanka: yea, under all that expensive leather, its just a 99 cent mini keyboard, not worth it. It would be more appealing and worth wile if it had buckling spring (IBM Model M/Unicomp Customizer) or as you said mchanical keyswitches. Either of those would make the keyboard, both more worth wile (not by much, as $500 is still to expensive) and it will make the keyboard a quality keyboard that should last decades... that is untill the leather rots from all the sweat and grease from greasy fingers getting pounded into it.


    Of course, most rich fools probably wont care or know about quality keyboard and will just scoop this thing up like hot cakes anyways... Fools... Fools and their money...

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    Image of Segador Segador
    12/14/08

    In reply to Gokukawa Leather Keyboard Provides Buttery Soft Typing Experience
    I can just imagine the buttery-rich jerks typing on this with their buttery-soft hands.
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    Image of SegamanXero SegamanXero
    12/15/08

    @Segador: If it aint clicky, it aint worth it...

    [www.clickykeyboards.com]
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    Image of Curves Curves
    11/04/08

    In reply to Cow Dies Needlessly to Coat Eee PC in Horrid Leather Modding
    How about we leave cows alone and kill some brushed stainless steel for this laptop. (The most underappreciated of hides.)
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    11/04/08

    In reply to Cow Dies Needlessly to Coat Eee PC in Horrid Leather Modding
    I'm hungry.
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    11/04/08

    In reply to Cow Dies Needlessly to Coat Eee PC in Horrid Leather Modding
    I'm on the fence - it does look pretty ugly, but perhaps if they'd started with a nicer looking machine to begin with it wouldn't look so bad. I wouldn't mind having a nice leather skin rather than shiny black plastic on my netbook.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    11/04/08

    In reply to Cow Dies Needlessly to Coat Eee PC in Horrid Leather Modding
    This would be better in Elephant.
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    Image of Thats Dr Bear to You Thats Dr Bear to You
    11/04/08

    @92BuickLeSabre: I'd actually prefer baby seal, but bald eagle will work too.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    11/04/08

    @Thats Dr Bear to You: You and I aren't thinking outside of the box here! We don't have to choose! Elephant for the outside - tough and long lasting, subtle use of baby seal for the wrist pads, where it should be soft and cuddly. And then the detail work can be done with the nice, lighter leather of the Bald Eagle.


    I smell profit!


    (Or maybe that's just the puppy livers I'm prepping for dinner.)

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    Image of Thats Dr Bear to You Thats Dr Bear to You
    11/04/08

    @92BuickLeSabre: You sir are a true Genius, I'll get my hunting shoes on right away :)


    enjoy the puppy, I'll just be relaxing in my polar bear footy PJs (the trick is to keep the head as a hoody)

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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    11/04/08

    @Thats Dr Bear to You: Oooh, that's nice.


    Not to pry, but is that made from scooped-up drowned polar bear? Or from a fresh kill? I've heard that the it makes a difference in the quality of the hide's underside.

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    Image of Thats Dr Bear to You Thats Dr Bear to You
    11/04/08

    @92BuickLeSabre: Oh fresh kill is the only way to go. The blood is a little tougher to get out of the hide but the drowned ones just aren't as soft. Some will tell you the drowned ones retain more heat but that's just not true.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    11/04/08

    @Thats Dr Bear to You: Awesome. I've got to get some of these for my kids.
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    11/04/08

    @92BuickLeSabre: No way, it would look far better in jack ass...err donkey.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    11/04/08

    @shamoononon: Damn it! I thought I had hidden my little subtext so well!
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    11/04/08

    In reply to Cow Dies Needlessly to Coat Eee PC in Horrid Leather Modding
    People for the Eeepc being covered in Tough Animal hide.
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    Image of Monty Monty
    11/04/08

    In reply to Cow Dies Needlessly to Coat Eee PC in Horrid Leather Modding
    Thanks to Apple's block of aluminum concept, one cow was carved into this Eee PC. Wasteful, yes, but in both cases you are left with a bloody impressive manufacturing process.
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    11/04/08

    In reply to Cow Dies Needlessly to Coat Eee PC in Horrid Leather Modding
    That thing looks like George Costanza's wallet..
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/04/08

    @Jrsy is the dude, playin' the dude, disguised as another du...: Except his good friend was morbidly obese.
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    11/04/08

    In reply to Cow Dies Needlessly to Coat Eee PC in Horrid Leather Modding
    Actually, the cow died to make tasty burgers, steaks, beef jerky, eventually leftovers for cat and dog food, and then what was left is surrounding this EeePC.
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