Behold, the Asus P8H67I‑Deluxe motherboard! Support for Intel’s quad-core, hyperthreaded Core i7s, up to 16 GB of DDR3 RAM, USB 3.0 ports, SATA 6.0 Gbps, 802.11n Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth 3.0… Technology.

But wait, what’s this? A PS/2 connector? What kind of person, who would go out of their way build their own PC rather than buy one from a shop, still uses a frickin’ PS/2 keyboard and mouse‽ iMac made USB mass market in 1998, and yet almost 14 years later, new PC motherboards are still coming with a connector from the ADB era?

Oh, and this thing is a mini‑ITX. So with its Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth, integrated Sandy Bridge graphics, HDMI output, and compact form factor, this is most likely to be used for a home theatre PC. Hmm, lemme just plug in a PS/2 keyboard and mouse and dangle them all the way across the living room to the sofa.

Roll out Jackie Chan.

(VGA is just as old as PS/2, but at least they’re still useful for projectors.)

Lovely.

Also: don’t know if Acura worked with The Onion on the scripts or not, but they seem to have planned out this sponsorship well. Kept anticipating a new “Acura‑ate” line.

Got Cities XL off Steam last night. This thing is going to ruin my life.

Also, getting the itch to build my own PC again. My laptop, with its four cores and hyperthreading, is great for 3ds Max, but the graphics card isn’t so good. TrackMania at maximum — including a native resolution of 1920 × 1080 — is fine, but not Cities.

If it doesn’t feel like work, you might be doing it right.

@DisneyPixar

ESPN:

One of the ball boys makes an amazing catch during the Federer Nadal Semifinal match at the Australian Open. Then there was a cricket reference to Ricky Ponting, and the crowd goes crazy!

I once had good hand–eye coordination, but then I took an arrow in the knee.

minimalmac:

PostWarden is a relatively new app that makes managing multiple Tumblr sites, and Tumblr accounts, a breeze, with the added bonus of having a local backup.

Not being a coder, I couldn’t do anything with it, but this is exactly the idea that I’d been playing around in my head for the last few months. Well, not literally exactly; the UI is a little raw, for example. The version in my head also has searching, which is coming to PostWarden; phew, because Tumblr’s search is so broken that I have to resort to Google. I also want HTML export, so that every thing becomes a bunch of static files — theme, media, pages, and all — that I can just pick up and drop on a different server if I need to — maybe when SOPA/PIPA/ACTA kicks in and mows down Tumblr — and have a complete site ready to go.

(My imaginary app also doesn’t turn ' into ’, but that’s a fault of Tumblr and Markdown, so hey.)

Wasn’t thinking of putting that much attention on posting, because I thought the Tumblr website was just fine. I was thinking more along the lines of Tumblr Backup 2.0. Actually, I hope Tumblr works with Ayuso on this and rebrand it as Tumblr Backup; Marco Arment’s app has stopped working for me a long time ago.

Teaser trailer for Realmac’s Clear. Combo of gestures plus animation/visual cues gets rid of the UI. No skeuomorphism. Wish they wouldn’t hide the iOS status bar at the top though.

I wonder how this can be translated to the iPad…