• In 1979, the worlds's worst oil spillage occurred as a result of a marine blow-out beneath the drilling rig Ixtoc 1 in the Gulf of Mexico.

    CNN: Tuesday,

  • Will Honeybourne, a First Reserve managing director in Houston who helped spearhead the deal--and beat out rival buyout shop Candover--notes that Abbot's rig-building and operating subsidiaries Bentec and KCA Deutag are particularly strong in Russia, West Africa, the Middle East and Libya.

    FORBES: First Reserve Bets On Abbot

  • Fresh off unveiling its BlackBerry 10 operating system and two new phones, the company tried to keep its badly needed momentum going with a 30-second spot in which a guy uses the new BlackBerry Z10 to set himself on fire, grow elephant legs and magically turn an out-of-control big rig into an exploding pile of rubber duckies.

    CNN: Breaking down the Super Bowl tech ads

  • But the cost will be steep: Wal-Mart's customers aren't the kind of big spenders who will splash out for a high-margin gaming rig.

    FORBES: Dell Goes Direct To Wal-Mart

  • They buy boats that look as if they were extruded from the same hunk of plastic and gather at events like Antigua Sailing Week to brag about how they've cut a few pounds out of their rig by switching to carbon-fiber composites from aluminum.

    FORBES: Two Sheets to the Wind

  • Before she ruled, the judge heard an apology from a BP executive and emotional testimony from relatives of the 11 workers who died when BP's blown-out Macondo well triggered an explosion on the rig and started the spill.

    NPR: Judge OKs $4B BP Oil Spill Criminal Settlement

  • British oil company BP, one of the firms operating the rig, has not been able to activate a device known as a blow-out preventer, designed to stop oil flow in an emergency.

    BBC: Growing concerns over Gulf of Mexico oil leak

  • AMD's latest should be available right now for an undisclosed price, but we'd wait for a few hands-on opinions before rushing out and skipping over a dedicated GPU in your next rig.

    ENGADGET: AMD integrates ATI Radeon X1250 into Vista-certified 690 chipset

  • You could build your very own rig, piece-by-piece, or you could buy one of the many, many pre-fab options out there (or some mixture of the two, of course).

    ENGADGET: Hands-on with Razer's Edge, a $999 gaming tablet / home console

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