It might not look like much but that small piece of ribbon has an apparent worth hovering right around $2,500. I’m sure it retailed for less than a dime at one point but, in a process quite similar to that responsible for kopi luwak, it has been imbued with incredible, undeniable value over the course of the past few days. In fact, I’m quite tempted to eBay it and reap what we have so proudly sown.

The ribbon may look a bit worse for wear which is lamentable but given that it was extracted whole from the bowels of Domino it looks pretty damned good. This is typically a non-trivial exercise resulting in discomfort and, in Domino’s case, near baldness as they shaved him from stem to stern about midway up the belly which you can witness below. Seems an awful lot of fur to remove for such a relatively small incision, but now we’re just nitpicking. Given that he was sealed up tighter than oakum on a ship’s hull what with the sacred ribbon fouling up the works, it was either the fur — and, of course, the roughly $2,500 — or the kitty.

That this isn’t the first time he’s wound up in this situation is moderately frustrating. They haven’t yet constructed the ribbon — or, as we discovered to our considerable disappointment, easter egg basket grass — that he won’t attempt to consume and so our house has over the years developed a ribbon-free force field that we’ve been rather successful at maintaining. Christmas is always a time of fear and anxiety as ribbon arrives from all directions and we’re usually vigilant in extracting and disposing of it before it can find purchase in Domino’s gizzard. But, somehow this piece snuck through the defenses.

Admittedly, when one sits that piece of bloody, biled-up ribbon next to, say, this 52″ HDTV that I’ve had my eye on for quite a while it pales a bit in the comparison. It boggles the mind that they, for all intents and purposes, have similar final value. I still love the pain in the ass animal, but he does anger me at times with his choices of consumables.

Gizmodo loves shiny gadgets. Gizmodo went to the Consumer Electronics Show as one would expect. What one wouldn’t necessarily expect is that Gizmodo is staffed by sugar-rushed 12-year-old mouth breathing imbeciles. In a heart-felt, placating tone they admit and ever-so-sincerely apologize for the fact that they ran around the show like halfwits and used a device to turn off the show displays. You can tell it’s heartfelt by the somber, conciliatory one and a half minute video depicting their deeds on the referenced page. And by them saying “We’re sorry.”

“CES has no shortage of displays. And when MAKE offered us some TV-B-Gone clickers to bring to the show, we pretty much couldn’t help ourselves. We shut off a TV. And then another. And then a wall of TVs. And we just couldn’t stop.”

No opportunity was wasted. Entire walls turned off, games interrupted, even many times during presentations. Here’s hoping your juvenile shenanigans preclude you from ever walking into a trade show again, Gizmodo. If you were looking for a way to distinguish yourselves you’ve certainly succeeded.

Bill Harris posted a hilarious and surprisingly effective method of generating band names for EA’s game Rock Band among other things. I decided to slap together a script that automates the process. Go try it out!

I mentioned previously that I won with Blingo and since then I’ve won twice more. Last night’s was a doosy: $50 cash money! If you’re not using Blingo for your searches you’re basically throwing money away. I’m here to tell you these prizes actually get awarded and there’s no catch. It’s not a scam.

How do I get in on this?

I’ll repost this from my previous post. It’s truly easy, just do your searches from Blingo. Tell them I sent you since this is — apparently — where you heard it from (full disclosure: if you use that link to create your account, you become a “friend” of mine so that I win if you win. It doesn’t change your winnings only provides me the same gift for sending you their way). You can do it from your quick search button in your browser so you always use it. It uses the Google search engine internally so your searches are every bit as accurate as Google’s. But for every search you do — well, technically the first 25 searches per day you perform through the service are eligible — you have a chance to win a prize… from an iTunes gift certificate to a car.