Engadget found another flaming Thinkpad - today's lesson: don't get smug about the laptop you have, lest you find that it can go all bonfire on you too :/

It appears that the exploding IBM ThinkPad that we spotted last week at LAX may not have been a fluke after all. Telsa Gwynne, wife of famed Linux kernel programmer Alan Cox, describes on her website how her husband's ThinkPad battery suddenly exploded last night (see the photo on the next page), after which "a couple of fires started where the (presumably) boiling battery landed," with one of the fragments taking out a nearby LCD monitor.

I know these are rare, and I know it's highly unlikely to happen to me. Still, that picture is sobering...

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