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I’d like to introduce a whole new writer here at Gearfuse, the excellent Sean Fallon. If Sean’s name sounds familiar to you, it’s because he’s an active tech writer at The Uber-Review and Nerd Approved. From now on you’ll be reading Sean’s daily posts and he’ll be doing his best to bring you an original, tongue-in-cheek view of tech in general, much in the usual style of Gearfuse. Welcome aboard, Sean!

Since our launch in December ‘06, things have been hectic here with our fast growth — and also our share of difficulties, and again I’d like to thank all of our readers and linking sites for your loyalty. We’re going to continue to provide you with fresh and interesting content in our own voice and I hope you all are looking forward to it as much as I am.

We’re constantly looking for more writers, and if you feel right for the job, drop us a line.

To send in a tip for the site, as usual shoot us an email at tips AT gearfuse DOT com.

– Steve

Mia Rose, porn star and avid WoW player, was surprised to find her level 70 Undead Warlock banned from from popular MMORPG with apparently no reason. The cause for this consequence? It seems that Mia Rose had starred as a horny elf in a porno flick titled, World of Whorecraft.

Apparently, the people over at Blizzard don’t take too kindly to RPG inspired porn. A clip from this classy picture was posted over at MiaRoseXXX.com (very NSFW), and the good people at Blizz happened to pick up news of her site from an asshole gamer on a public chat channel. I say, let her back now. There’s no reason for this. — Andrew Dobrow

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Rarely can us meager humans ever interact with such a powerful force as the Hyposurface will allow. Quoted as being like “controlling a waterfall”, the Hyposurface is a reactive wall that can be programmed to be used with nearly any input, including music, an internet connection, a gyrating human body, and so on.

The Hyposurface then moves in conjunction with the input, creating an amazing wave like effect. Images can’t capture the effect as well as video can, so we recommend checking out the design page for this one. You’ll see how the question of “what can this be used for?” will transform into “what can’t this be used for?”. — Andrew Dobrow

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If I wanted to drink tap-water, I’d just drink out of my dog’s bowl. That irony taste just isn’t for me. iStraw is a lightweight polycarbonate straw with its own internal filtration system. Using micro-filtration, the straw removes much of the contamination from a glass of water.

The iStraw’s special internal membrane allows for water to be filtered without the use of more expensive methods. It’s great for personal use and you’ll never know when you’ll be stuck somewhere that needs the aid of a protozoa slaughtering straw. — Andrew Dobrow

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This 14 inch motherboard wall clock is one piece of geekery that will surely keep you on time for the next lecture on quantum physics you’ve been planning to attend. While we might not know all of the inner workings of hardware, we do know that motherboards look really friggen cool when placed on display on a wall.

Choose from a selection of green, blue, or red, or even all three if u wanna go all out. The only drawback is that there are no numbers displayed on the clock. You’ll live. Available now for $60. Or you could make your own for a few bucks. — Andrew Dobrow

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We’d like to announce that Gearfuse has reached the Top 5000 blogs on Technorati, which as many of you know, is a big milestone for any blog. Since our launch in December of 2006, things have been a little crazy here with our rapid growth. Though, we want to thank all of the readers and linking sites that have stuck with us through all of our troubles, making us one of the fastest growing tech blogs of the year.

Thank you for reading and making us among the best of the best. Even though we have reached this plateau, we will not stop providing you with fresh and interesting content in our own voice. You’re what makes us wake up in the morning and work 15 hour days. When it comes down to it, you readers ARE Gearfuse. Thanks again for being such a huge part of our lives. Keep reading and we’ll keep writing.

We’d like to thank the sites that have contributed to our growth which includes, but isn’t limited to: Gizmodo, Boing Boing, Engadget, Crave, MAKE: Blog, Engadget Mobile, OhGizmo!, Textually, NOTCOT, Random Good Stuff, Coolest Gadgets, Reuters, Core77, BornRich, CrunchGear, Hacked Gadgets, Destructoid, The Uber-Review, SCI FI Tech, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, Uncrate, Gadget Lab, Zedomax, electro^plankton, technabob and many, many more. Thank you all for your support and giving credit where credit is due. We love each and every one of you.

– Gearfuse Staff

You might be wondering why we haven’t had many new updates the last few days. It turns out that altering our server plan has shown to be more complicated than we previously thought it would be. But, we’re sure things will be ironed out very soon, most likely this weekend. Thank you for being so patient with us guys. We know it’s a drag. We’ve been going a little nuts ourselves over here.

Again, we love you all. Thanks for reading and bear with us!

– Gearfuse Staff

Hey, guys. Sorry for the minor foul up this morning. Gearfuse has been having some server glitches so we’ve changed hosting plans with Media Temple. We’ll now be able to handle our rapidly growing traffic. We should be back to normal pretty soon. Though, if things are a little glitchy, we apologize for the annoyance.

Thanks for reading. You guys are everything to us.

– Gearfuse Staff

Fraud and grand larceny aren’t the only shady events going down in the corporate world nowadays. A study conducted by PixAlert determined that one out of every four computers used by corporations contain pornographic material. Other than the 25% deemed pornographic, an astonishing 46.8% contain fully nude or sexual suggestive material, with 0.3% of that being deemed “illegal”.

The study showed that some people are going through extraordinary lengths to bypass security systems in order to receive and distribute inappropriate material. Further proof that the corporate world is still ran by men. It would have been nice if there was some kind of gender breakdown of these incidents, but I don’t think it’s a question of who was downloading the most porn. — Andrew Dobrow

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Who cares what time it is? We don’t. Hell the minutes can float around all they want. See if we care. Pshhht. See? This is us not caring. Do we care that this Whatever Clock is $24.99? Nope. What time is it you say? I can’t tell since my numbers are currently sliding off my clock. Not that we’d care what time it was anyway. *sigh* How can we care? Our clock doesn’t even care. Oh well. Whatever. Never mind.

Oh, wait, wait. We might have cared for a second. Nope…false alarm. — Andrew Dobrow

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