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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I admire the Slate’s speed, but it still seems to sport a clunky Windows interface. For some reason, that doesn’t seem to go with the touchscreen paradigm. Whatever.

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