Today at Boing Boing Gadgets

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• Mat Honan finds a bedazzlingly ridiculous thread about … well, you should just go and see it.

• Joel greeted you from outside Denver.

• In an unused ad, a BlackBerry destroys an Apple.

• There was a secret gathering of the Order of the Lamp

• We hid our spare keys in a sprinkler head.

• Big Dog, the military pack-bot, is back for more creepy robot ballet.

Electrically-heated pants prove snowboarding is the new golf.

• You can buy tiny models of classic Sega arcade games.

• Behold! The world's smallest escalator.

• The iPhone is now free in Japan.

• Some Circuit City liquidators are being nice about testing stuff you've bought before you leave the store.

• Details emerge of Sony's Playstation Portable 2. CEO Stringer got a promotion, and a free hand to restructure the company.

• Small British ISPs declined to work with the self-appointed censors who blocked Wikipedia and The Internet Archive.

• Motorola "launched" a cellphone. Into a field.

• Google banned "Netbook" ads at Psion's behest.

• Would you like a Steampunk empire? Build one out of Lego!

• Datel made a NES-style Wii controller. Cheap!

• Verizon announced the LG Versa.