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Geek Gifts 2008: The RC Battle Tank Type 90: Think Geek sent us the RC Battle Tank Type 90 to review for our annual Geek Gift Guide. The tank is obviously based on the U.S. battle tank the M1 Abrams. We took our battle tank for a little field testing and came away more than a little disappointed. by...; Tags: Mark Kaelin, TechRepublic Inc., Tank, Geek Gifts 2008, off topic, geekend; Image galleries 2008-08-14
Offbeat laptop sleeves at Barry's Farm: Looking for a laptop sleeve that will turn heads at the office or at the local coffee bar on weekends? Barry's Farm has the wacky laptop sleeve market all sewn up. by Cara Reynolds; Tags: geekend, off topic, laptop, sleeve; Image galleries 2008-03-17

Google's open source problem is Affero: The best open source protection for "the cloud," as Gordon Haff notes today, is the Affero GPL license. (Picture from our Tech Republic's GeekEnd blog, written by Jay Garmon.) Affero closes the "ASP loophole" described by Fabrizio Capobianco here in March. It defines what SaaS delivers as...; Tags: Google Inc., ClipperZ, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-09