While Dell’s partnerships with MLB and OPI are content with merely printing new designs onto the laptop lid, creative director Douglas Little of D.L. & Co. took things a lot too far with this Swarovski Crystal-embedded sterling silver snake — adorning an etched Adamo 13 lid. We can’t decide if we’re offended by the gaudy display, or incredibly impressed with how audacious it is, so we’ll just leave our mouths hanging open and let you decide for yourself. What we do know is that it’s part of a series of one-offs produced for Bergdorf Goodman retail in some capacity, and we’re sure with a bit of recession-style haggling you should have no trouble squeezing one of these onto a second mortgage.

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It’s one thing to successfully navigate through the minefield of standard interview questions, but what if a prospective employer intentionally or inadvertently tosses an out-of-bounds question your way. Yahoo Jobs offers three ways to handle the illegal questions.

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If you’re faced with questions concerning your age, religion, disability, family situation, or another off-limits topic, Yahoo says to avoid answering the question and instead “answer the intent behind the question.” When doing so, it’s best to tactfully rephrase the question into a legal one before answering.

To answer the intent behind the question, try to figure out what the interviewer REALLY wants to know. For example, if the interviewer asks if you are a U.S. citizen (which is an illegal question), a smart answer would be, “If you mean to ask if I am legally authorized to work for you, the answer is yes.”

Of course, since the question is an illegal one, you can always be direct and refuse to answer, indicating that you are within your rights to do so—but then, if you’re looking for a job you may not want to come off as hostile, especially if it seemed like an honest mistake. The post also explains that you can just go ahead and answer the question, but that “you should only answer the question if you truly are comfortable providing the information.”

Browse the post for other advice on how to handle illegal questions, then prepare yourself more fully for that interview by knowing the answers to key questions before your job interview and what questions to ask during it.

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A linux geek found a very interesting use of his old Linux computer. He turned his old Linux machin into a baby rocker using a simple Bash script.

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