HP Touchpad 3rd Chance

woot.com right now has the HP touchpad up for sale. My brother was persistent enough to pick up a couple of them when the insanity sale has been going on, so I have been using one for the last couple months.

And I love it.

With a couple of very easy tweaks, the software is smooth and responsive, the controls are intuitive, and as always, webOS delivers the best multitasking experience this side of a PC... actually, it might be better than a PC come to think of it.

The main downside, as it always has been with webOS, is the apps. There are not that many available. But what I have found is that there is one good app available for each big thing you want to do. Kindle for books, a couple good news readers, an eBay app, a video player, pandora radio, a few good games, email, and the best facebook and twitter apps for any tablet. What isn't there are the thousands of extra, random or specialized apps, and the general quality of the apps is lower than on the major OS's. All that said, I love the tablet, and for this price, it blows the small and clunky Amazon Fire or big and overpriced iPad out of the water.

HP TouchPad 9.7” 16GB Wi-Fi Tablet

$169.99

• + $5.00 shipping

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HP TouchPad 9.7” 32GB Wi-Fi Tablet

$219.99

• + $5 shipping

CONDITION:

Refurbished

PRODUCT:

1 HP TouchPad 32GB Wi-Fi Tablet, 9.7” Capacitive LCD, webOS 3.0, Bluetooth 2.1, 802.11n, 1.3MP Cam

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The New Aston Mar... Err... Ford Fusion

Take a look at the new Ford Fusion and tell me what you see...


Because I see the front end of a Aston Martin tacked onto the nose of this latest Ford. And that isn't a bad thing, actually, I think this car looks great, and far better than the budget looking Fusion it replaces.

But Ford... really... you kinda pulled a Hyundai with this one.. goddamn do they look similar

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This Just In

Save the BoN (and lots of other stuff)

Protesting SOPA: how to make your voice heard - http://pulse.me/s/57fs7

Saab may be Turkish

Report: Turkish private equity firm jumps into Saab buying fray - http://pulse.me/s/5fh0U

This Newly Discovered Frog Is the World's Smallest Vertebrate - http://pulse.me/s/4TR7Y

Saab no More?

Today, Saab filed for bankruptcy in Sweden.

Some blame GM for blocking Saab's purchase by two random Chinese car companies. I don't.

I blame GM for running Saab into the ground over the decade and a half they owned the company, taking a unique brand with a strong following and completely failing to understand anything about the brand, what made it great, why people bought them, or where the company could be taken.

Sadly, just as GM was finally turning the company around (the 9-5 is a great car, the 9-4X a very good crossover), the recession hit, and GM was forced to rationalize brands. I don't blame them for selling Saab at that point. Spyker begged them to sell rather than close Saab, and it turned out Spyker simply did not have the resources to run Saab, let alone rebuild it. Then, when Spyker looked to sell the company to China, they would essentially be selling GM technology to companies which will just take it to compete with GM. There is no reason GM should have approved the sale.

But what is sad is that a unique and impressive brand, a brand which for a time offered a very strong contender to the German brands in performance while still incorporating safety and usefulness, is going to go to waste.

Kim Jong Il Dies

N Korean leader Kim Jong-il dies - http://pulse.me/s/48Oig

Though we think he is just a wacko wearing tall shoes, the people of North Korea looked up to KJI as their demi God leader, partly because they were forced to, partly because they had no access to anything which challenged that reality.

Now, that leader is dead, and while the divine right succession worked in 1994, it is not totally clear that this time around, passing power down to his third oldest son, that the people will so willingly transfer their love, affection, and fear.

I certainly hope they don't, but given just how little access the people of North Korea have to reality or any form of power, I am not sure this opportunity will be acted upon.