[H]ardOCP: Hokey smokes, that’s a lot of bricks! Someone built the British battle cruiser H.M.S. Hood out of Lego and it’s 20-feet long. Check out the article for some photos to get a grasp on how big this thing is. This is a 20-foot-long Lego model of the HMS Hood, a Royal Navy battlecruiser built ...

[H]ardOCP: AppleInsider has some analysis on the recently-leaked MacBook case photos and noticed something interesting: there is no full DVI or Firewire 400 port. Follow the jump for other observations and to see all the photos. Instead, the high-end notebook now has a mini-DVI connector for video output and ...

[H]ardOCP: T-Mobile’s HTC G1, powered by Google Android, presales is reportedly at 1.5 million units sold. These numbers do not include retail sales nor has the holiday season even started yet. Looks like T-Mobile’s got a winner here. Google is working closely with T-Mobile and other hardware suppliers ...

[H]ardOCP: InfoWorld takes a trip in the Wayback Machine to remind us of the ten worst Windows flaws over the past 10 years. There are some doozies in here, such as the SQL Slammer bug from 2003. These errors, buried in millions of lines of code, have steered great corporations and turned the tide of fortunes. ...

[H]ardOCP: You’ve seen hardware and game roundups but what about an energy food/drink roundup? This article tries several energy boosting food items and drinks to see if they really work, in the author’s own non-scientific way. I thought it was pretty funny. Well, you can overclock a PC for better ...

DailyTech: Apple is moving ahead with NVIDIA chipsets for its new MacBooks...

[H]ardOCP: Wired has an interesting interview with World of Warcraft Lead Producer J. Allen Brack. Follow the jump for his thoughts on the upcoming expansion, other Blizzard games affecting WoW’s player base, and what’s coming after Wrath of the Lich King. During Blizzcon I had a chance to sit down ...

[H]ardOCP: Richard Garriott of Ultima and Tabula Rasa fame is following in the footsteps of his astronaut father and is headed for outer space. Garriott paid $30 million for a 10-day trip as a tourist to the International Space Station. You know that if you had the money, you’d do it too. He plans to ...

[H]ardOCP: TechPowerUp has some details on how IT OC Taiwan took an engineering sample of the 3.2GHz stock Core i7-965XE and overclocked it to 4.20GHz. This is just a little more hype for you guys as we draw closer to Nehalem November. IT OC Taiwan overclocked the chip, which sports an unlocked FSB multiplier, ...

[H]ardOCP: The final client for OpenOffice 3.0 is available at various mirror sites, according to ZDNet. The official release date is 10/13 but if you want to get a jump on it early, follow the link in the blog entry. Note that not all mirrors currently offer all OS flavors of OO.o 3.0. The path to the final ...