Someone needs to manufacture a USB version of that huge steering wheel that does...I don't know, something cool.

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I want it, too!

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You mean that isn't the latest incarnation of the Amiga? Now I am teh sad.

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I figured as such, but seeing the original photo makes this even funnier. What a cute little 50's man!

And that 50's TV up in the corner! hah.

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yes, it's hard to imagine that anyone would believe that a computer needs a large steering wheel.

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Me and race car game care to differ.

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you'd get a neck cramp having to turn and look up at the tv while driving your computer

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i thought that looked photoshopped, thanks for clearing that up.

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How long before someone does this as a case mod? :)

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Oh, sure, I post it and get 2 comments and then you post it and get like 10 in four seconds. :P

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I did the scaled image thing, and link to full-size, and transcription of the text.

It's all about the effort! :-)

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This is awesome.

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I showed this to someone, and they showed me this:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer.asp

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Even some CSE profs fell for it:

Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:20:03 -0800
From: Paul Beame <beame@cs.washington.edu>
Subject: [Cse321] For the A section: That "home computer" picture

was a hoax apparently.

It turns out to be the bridge of some navy ship with a few other things put in.

pwn3d.

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Anyone willing to dig up the Fark.com Photoshop thread from whence it originated?

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http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1115586

Its about half way down. Search for Lukket. Amazingly this was only in September. Amazing how fast things get around the Internet.

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http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1115586

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Intel showed this picture at IDF in Moscow :)

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I thought that picture and your information on it was fairly amusing to say the least....good job! You seem like a good person and very witty....except I would have thrown in some German expressions to top it all off, but hey, your perogative :-)! Anyway take it easy and all the best!
p.s not that i know you or anything, i'm from toronto by the way, just a random read...sorry to disturb

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«It was my father's dream that, one day, the people of the world would be connected by a network of blocky, refrigerator-sized computers, much like those he was helping to develop at IBM.

He envisioned families of the future gathered around their mammoth terminals, ordering grocies and paying their taxes from the comfort of their own comes. A person could compose music, design a doghouse, and -- something more, something even better. A person could -- he could --

When predicting this utopia, he would eventually reach a point when words would failed him. His eyes would widen and sparkle at the thought of this indescribable something more. "I mean, my GOD!", he'd say, "just THINK about it!". My sisters and I preferred not to. I didn't know about them, but I was hoping the people of the world might be united by something more interesting, like drugs, or an armed struggle against the undead. [...]»

Continued:

• David Sedaris: "Nutcracker dot com", a twelve-minute mp3, 5.7MB long, excerpted from Me Talk Pretty One Day, which you should buy

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