I agree with Mr. Jobs: Having a CD icon for iTunes is anachronistic. It’s almost as moronic as the floppy disk icon the persists on Save buttons in programs all over the world. When will our icons enter the 21st Century?

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Cirago is sponsoring a Workspace In Need Of A Makeover contest. Submit a photo of your workspace to win a new multimonitor adapter. Access Facebook (below) to enter.

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Today tea party activists and Radio/TV host Glenn Beck are meeting at the Lincoln Memorial for a rally. The left is hard at work trying to change the location of the Lincoln Memorial on Google Maps. Fail.

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Apparently there are worms (malware) designed specifically to be carried on and spread by USB thumb drives. Up to 25 percent of the drives could be infected.

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The Lost auction is over. The Apple II-plus computer ended up selling for $16,000, which is pretty steep for 30-year-old technology. The moral of the story is that when you slap a Dharma logo on your old junk, it can rack up lots of money at auction. I think.

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The number one most dangerous celebrity search resulting in malware is now Cameron Diaz, according to McAfee.

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Just got this press release this morning:

Included in this auction will be the Swan Station Computer, which is an Apple-II Plus system running an Apple-III monitor, with a Disk II floppy drive, each featuring DHARMA logo.

This prop computer was used at the Swan station and by Desmond, Locke and other cast members to enter “The Numbers” every 108 minutes. It is the destruction of the Swan station computer that prevented “The Numbers” from being entered, leading Desmond to trigger the fail safe mechanism, causing the Swan station to implode. (Of trivial interest is a 1980s film, entitled “The Self,” employed in some psychology classes today, which features an Apple-III computer monitor that is used to test the effect of positive personalities. Incidentally, the numbers 4, 8, 16, and 23 appear frequently in these tests.) The monitor currently exhibits the DHARMA Tempest station logo, indicating its subsequent use in the Season Four episode, “The Other Woman.”

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I got a Facebook message for this scam last weekend. Being a hands-off Facebook user, I didn’t click on it. The article provides a great anatomy for the typical Facebook scam. Suckers.

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Are people prepared for a plethora of pads? They’re coming. According to Technologizer, as many as 32 different pads are coming to market soon, all designed to take on the king: Apple’s iPad.

God save us.

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A very clever trojan has stripped more than £675,000 (about $1,000,000) from online banking customers in the UK. The malware is so clever, it sends false bank statements to the customers, so they never knew anything is up. Could this be the next generation of virus?

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