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Well I’ve officially died and gone to nerd heaven. I found this (via Engadget via Hack-a-Day) today and tried it out, and it’s awesome. As I understand things, it installs Linux as a separate bootable partition on your 1st, 2nd or 3rd Generation iPod. “Why would I want to do such a thing,” you ask? I’ve got three words for you question-man: games, recording, and (wait for it) calculator.

What’s cool is you don’t lose any of the Apple-y goodness of your iPod. In fact, you’ll never even know the Linux is there unless you hold the “Rewind” button after resetting. If you do, it boots up into Linux (complete with iPod-using penguin) and gives you a bunch of options that aren’t available from Apple, for example:

Games: Asteroids, Tetris (yes! Tetris!), Pong (not Breakout), and (ooh baby) Minesweeper. That is not a typo. I said Minesweeper. As in one of the greatest games of all time Minesweeper.

Recording: Why drop $35 on a voice recorder that only records at 8khz (if khz is what I mean) when you can record at high-quality 96khz for free? And you can record using an external mic, the line-in, or even your headphones!

Calculator: uh, this one is pretty self-explanatory. Still, I was able to leave an exactly 9.5% tip for lunch today, which I never would have been able to figure out on my own, so that’s something.

Also, I had some initial problems getting the installer to work right, but Jeffrey Nelson, one of (the?) the developers answered my email in like 30 seconds and got me all straightened out. Capital. Simply capital.

If you’re in the mood for a laugh, head on over to Mister Pants, who’s having his year-end link clearance. Today it’s all hilarious Christian propaganda. The Cross in Space alone is worth the price of admission.

Breaking News: Adfreak has a link to DIY Team Zissou Adidas Shoes. My weekend just got exponentially more exciting.