I do wonder about how badly it will screw up the layout of a website to pull whole chunks of it out. At work, our corporate overlords block Facebook, but I often find that without Facebook, the space that it should have been place it grows to accommodate the scolding message from our IT department about how Facebook is blocked, covering part of the content of the damn page! I even added Facebook to my hosts file, but now I just have a giant 404 iframe that again covers part of the content.

The Huffington Post, in particular, is REALLY bad for this. I actually have to start up Firebug and delete the offending iframe so I can actually read some of the stories.

I cringe more when they don't ask and just do it anyway. Serious pet-peeve.

One of which is a USB port!

I'm in about the same place. I ordered from Allied since I'm in the states. Their website now states:

*Please note that due to extreme demand and short supply, the estimated delivery time is uncertain and will likely take several months. We do regret the delay and inconvenience this may cause.

I e-mailed them last week and they never got back to me. Fucking useless.

The desktop PC will die the year after the "year of the linux desktop".

i.e. It'll never happen.