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Today at Boing Boing Gadgets

Rob Beschizza at 5:56 am Wed, Feb 25, 2009

Kindle

• Olympus's new camera flips out and shoots people.
• We learned who discovered Mat's geocache!
• Guinness checked out the world's most expensive vacuum cleaner.
• Someone got Windows 3.1 on a Nokia cellphone, via Dosbox.
• Leather. Billiards. Secret drawers.
• There are no hidden cameras in digital TV converter boxes.
• More evidenced surfaced that Circuit City's liquidators can't be trusted.
• The human vending machine has chocolate for you.
• Kindle 2 was unboxed, and the NYT gave it a Good review.
• We liked Aranwen's ornate steampunk wristwatch.

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Anonymous

Ok … I used to work in a one hour photo shop.
Years ago. Before digital cameras.
and we got plenty of VERY personal dirty images.
the phrase
“The human vending machine has chocolate for you. ”
reminds me of one very specific image we got of a young lady.