Today on Boing Boing Gadgets

Joel Johnson 4:14 pm Wed Jun 4, 2008

Today at Boing Boing Gadgets, we instructed the futuristic eco-warrior how to build his or her own Silent Running style robot ducklings, and the tar-lunged smoke belcher how to roll his own cheap and delicious cancer sticks, as well as gadgets to help him along in the habit .

History was on the menu: we considered the invention of the corkscrew. We also philosophized on the eternal Mac vs. PC sissy slap fight with the helps of our good friends, Tom Servo and Crow.

Also in the news: Mac keyboards discovered 50,000 years in the future. The Louvre opens an Apple store. Amputee anime bikini babes make the best PC case mods. Your grampaw's iPod dock. The senseless, summary execution of thousands of Canon cameras via ball peen hammer. The roaming knife sharpeners of Brooklyn. And, of course, the worst interstitial ever, courtesy of TBS.

Oh, and for some reason, Beschizza posted this really horrifying image of Obama DNA spliced with his erstwhile nemesis, Hilary Clinton.

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