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03 Sep 2009 11:16

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Tech: One in four Xbox 360 owners will soon own a brick

  • 23.7% of Xbox 360s will eventually fail; LOL source
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28 Jul 2009 10:02

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Biz: AT&T doesn’t understand the idea of a discount very well

  • Go in and the man at the desk goes about setting me up. Then he says this ‘There is an activation fee of $36 to add this discount to your account.’
  • Consumerist reader “ValentineHumphrey” • Describing the process during which she found out her company was getting charged a $36 fee for getting a 25% discount from AT&T. Man, and we thought our logic didn’t make much sense. They got the fee reversed but that’s just cruddy service in the first place. • source
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23 Jul 2009 09:25

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Culture: We know why GM went bankrupt: A Transformer-themed Camaro

Who over the age of 10 would think a Bumblebee-themed car would be awesome? And who under the age of 10 can actually drive? source
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18 Jun 2009 20:21

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Tech: Available options for enabling tethering on your AT&T iPhone

  • According to The Unofficial Apple Weblog (where friend of the site Megan Lavey works), AT&T plans to offer a super-expensive $55 data plan to allow you to use the iPhone’s 3G on your laptop. Laaaaaaaaame.
  • According to 9to5Mac (where, sadly, no friends of the site work), you can hack your 3.0-upgraded iPhone using some simple non-jailbreaking steps to enable tethering in five minutes. Guess which one we’re doing?
  • waiting
  • hacking
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10 Jun 2009 12:02

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Offbeat: The English language has a pretty lame millionth word, guys

  • Web 2.0 The millionth word added to the English language, which is just awful and annoying. source
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30 May 2009 17:50

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Culture: Dear U.K. citizens, you have no taste. Sincerely, Susan Boyle fans.

  • Second? WTF guys? Seriously? How? The public voted, and somehow, some way, the lady who seemed like a shoo-in to win “Britain’s Got Talent” fell to second, behind “Diversity,” a dance troupe who isn’t Susan Boyle. We call bull$*#^. By losing, Boyle lost a chance to sing for the Queen of England. It’s kind of terrible we have to say this about an entire country, but: Screw you all. There goes our chance at moving into diplomacy. source
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24 Mar 2009 10:18

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U.S., World: South Africa has some pretty lame people in charge of visas

  • A group in South Africa wants to hold a peace conference, and they invited Tibetian spiritual leader the Dalai Lama to come. source
  • South Africa denies him a visa out of fear that his visit might overshadow the 2010 World Cup, which they’re hosting. WTF? source
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