At the danger of sounding less than 100% diesel masculine, I’ll admit that I absolutely adore this comic strip on personal love. Click the link for the whole story, but I found this panel alone somewhat poignant in a it’s-late-afternoon-so-I’m-searching-for-life’s-meaning sort of way. [See Mike Draw via Super Punch]

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The newest Asus Eee PC—the 10.2″ Eee 1000—was recently dissected by Tweaktown. There’s not a ton of news to come out of the autopsy, but we got this pretty picture, and it was confirmed that the Eee 1000 uses stock components just begging to be replaced, like its 2.5″ 40GB or 80GB 5400RPM hard drive. We might advocate the world’s highest capacity laptop drive for the job, the 320GB Western Digital Scorpio Black? It’ll only cost about half again what that Eee 1000 set you back. [Tweaktown via CrunchGear]

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Japanese toy company People has released a new age alarm clock that supposedly helps kids wake up by turning them into Ultraman. It’s called the Okiro! Asa Ichiban Taiyou Senshi - Charenjaa Kitto (Wake up! First Sun Warrior of the Morning - challenger kit) and was manufactured for the Japanese Ministry of Education “early to bed early to rise” program. The $38 kit comes with the extravagant eye shield and helmet; a series of talismans and message cards (no doubt world-saving secret missions); and a 27-day program that’ll involve your child taking orders from “the commander.”

The commander wakes the child up at 6 a.m., and prompts players to put on the helmet and hit a “roger” button to acknowledge their wakefulness. Then, they are ordered to count to 10 in five different languages: English, Japanese, German, Swahili and Malagasy. At that point, the player is “allowed to take off the equipment and begin the day”—wtf?! Didn’t Akira start this way? [People.jp via CrunchGear]

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