Kikuyumoja shows us how he fixed an old Dell Latitude using a simple cookie tin. True ingenuity, with an African flavor. (He first tried with a Tusker bottlecap, but it proved to small)
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That’s fantastic. I wish they had put the Tusker bottle top on Boing Boing though. 
Thx!! …already working on a tusker-related sticker for my next notebook 
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