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Unless you're new to my blog (welcome!), you know I geek-out over the Mac vs PC ads. Apple is even getting more creative now with its feature comparisons, like the royal treatment of Mac Genius.

The Mac ads emphasize the total miss of the new Windows ads featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld. Love the guys, but not seeing how Microsoft recovers from openly recognizing itself as too far away from the "real people."

It's the same angle as "PC" coming out of a pizza box to attract college students - but much funnier when produced by the competition.

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Do you know someone who doesn't have an office supply fetish? Get them help.

The folks at io9 put together a list of supplies of the future, which got me to thinking of my own list, of course.

First and foremost, I need a notebook that changes appearance every day. New covers, with different colors and weights of the paper, and variations of line spacing.

That may address my regular purchase of new notebooks - and my collection of barely-used castaways.

I also need a pen implanted in my finger. I've been known to lose a pen while writing. Bet you didn't know they could fly.

The pen needs a perfectly smooth flow, in never-ending bright blue ink.

I need file folders that organize and catalog the contents, without ever getting bulky. I like flat file folders. In pretty colors.

These would make me a happy fetishist.What's on your list?

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Random company Stysen is creating the B01 i-Knock, a USB companion who knocks itself on the head to notify you about incoming IMs. And, to ensure you wind up knocking yourself in the head as well, it talks and makes sounds to match your emoticons.

Fucking genius.

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Particle board is possibly the geekiest-cool material known to man. Seriously. Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, are a step closer to developing metamaterials that could render people invisible. Invisible!

Hm. Just to the human eye, or all seeing creatures? The article omitted this important detail. Invisibility is awesome but not reliable if you have a line dogs tailing you. Wait – won’t they smell you and chase you anyway? And what happens if you get caught in the rain – do you make a clear outline like Kevin Bacon did in the trashy Hollow Man? Then there’s the inevitable wearing off, where you wind up naked in a crowded room. Plus the invisible man always winds up mad. Like a hatter. Have Zhang and company taken all this into account?

They probably watch far less B movies than I do.

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