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A 30-pound Plexiglas display case containing 42 iPod nanos walked out of an Apple Store in Boulder, Colorado, courtesy of either very sneaky shoplifters, snoozing store clerks, or some devious combination of the two. You’d think someone walking out of an Apple Store carrying a big glass box filled with $8705 worth of nanos would be rather conspicuous, but apparently in Boulder people do it all the time, since no one noticed anything suspicious and police have no suspects. So if you see a set of 42 nanos in a “handsome display case” up for sale on eBay this weekend, bid with caution. – Matt Buchanan

P.S. Cobbling together the information given to us and utilizing our crack Law and Order skills, we came up with a rendering of the suspect, which you can see on the right, so be on the lookout.

42 iPods stolen from Apple Store [Daily Camera]
image via Flickr

A 30-pound Plexiglas display case containing 42 iPod nanos walked out of an Apple Store in Boulder, Colorado, courtesy of either very sneaky shoplifters, snoozing store clerks, or some devious combination of the two. You’d think someone walking out of an Apple Store carrying a big glass box filled with $8705 worth of nanos would be rather conspicuous, but apparently in Boulder people do it all the time, since no one noticed anything suspicious and police have no suspects. So if you see a set of 42 nanos in a “handsome display case” up for sale on eBay this weekend, bid with caution. – Matt Buchanan

P.S. Cobbling together the information given to us and utilizing our crack Law and Order skills, we came up with a rendering of the suspect, which you can see on the right, so be on the lookout.

42 iPods stolen from Apple Store [Daily Camera]
image via Flickr

Whoever said Web 2.0 is nothing more than a passing phase? With something called Cemetery 2.0, people can connect physical gravestones to online memorials of dead people. Yup. Remember Great Aunt Agnes? Oh what a fighter she was. Now you can link her burial plot to her Facebook account, all her pics on Flickr and other Web 2.0 wholesome fun. Morbid? Certainly, but no one said this bubble was a noble one.

Cemetery 2.0 works by keeping an active satellite Internet connection that keeps ol’ bag of bones in constant communication with the Web services. Couldn’t make it for Agnes’ birthday? Just post a message on her Facebook wall, she’ll understand.

The current prototype uses this guy here, who is the great-grandfather of Cemetery 2.0’s inventor, Elliott Malkin.

What kind of Web sites would you like to be perpetually linked to? I hope one of them starts with a “Giz” and ends with a “modo.” – Nicholas Deleon

Cemetery 2.0 [Dziga.com via we make money not art]

Just when we started believing that the 20GB Xbox 360 drives were big enough to satisfy, along comes the best evidence yet of more spacious disk appendages. Microsoft hasn’t officially let the kitty out of the bag, but Plaid Ninja snapped this screenshot at the Xbox Live event tonight. It shows 70 gigs of free space on a 360. If the timing is to coincide with the new download service, we’re talking about seeing these things before Q4 is up. Question: How will we transfer games from one HDD to the upgraded drive? –Brian Lam

Plaid Ninja [Plaid Ninja's Flickr]

A guy’s BlackBook keyboard broke, resulting in a trip to the Apple Store only to find out they only had white spares. The result: a half white, half black MacBook that actually looks sexier than the uni-colored originals.

Is this a start of a new trend? Speaking for myself, definitely. – Jason Chen

Flickr [via Digg]

We value our time spent on the can, so the thought of having commercial-playing displays in the bathroom pisses us off (lame pun intended). But apparently that’s how it’s been going on down under. This image of a hand dryer in Australia shows an ad playing right off the dryer’s display. We don’t wash our hands to begin with, but at least now we can say we’re doing it to protest the advertising. –Louis Ramirez

[via Ad Rants]

Just when I thought I had seen every dock imaginable, someone did something new, and pretty creative. (Too bad they don’t own a decent digital camera) This is an iPod dock created out of an old, what looks like a 3rd gen, iPod. Craftsmanship could use a little improvement, but who I am to judge….

We were kind of bummed out by the official Zune photos that were released with the announcement. But we did find some updated Zune Press Kit photos via the Zune Insider Flickr that gets us ¡muy excitado! Check out the black and brown pics after the jump. – Jason Chen…

It hasn’t even been a week and people who bought the new iPod Nanos are complaining about blemishes on the finish. Blemishes? C’mon. First it was scratches on the first-gen Nanos, now blemishes on the second-gen? Some people are even saying dust is getting into the finish, which makes it an uneven color. Are…

Got a SLR camera and want a macro lens without shelling out the big bucks? It’s quite simple if you are flickr user, Rautiocination. an ungodly abomination, a EF 90-300 mm lens which is male to male filter coupled to a EF-S 18-55 lens …potential magnification is around 300 / 18 = ~16x (not…