Followups and offshoots

[sigma7]

beeform just got an iPod, and indeed it was genuinely an iPod in the box, and not a piece of raw meat, so good for her.

And querldox posted re: Google's acquisition of, in addition to their many IT assets, 250 pounds of Silly Putty. But the Googlinites were running into problems distributing said volume of bouncy/bendy stuff. According to a Boing Boing correspondent, hitting it with a hammer works (explanation here). But dropping a 50-pound chunk off a rooftop (with video!) may not yield the expected results.