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19 Apr 2010 11:04

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Tech: Gizmodo says that iPhone lost in a bar isn’t fake, but actually real

  • The phone was remotely killed. The Daring Fireball dude says he called around and believes Apple lost a prototype. iTunes recognizes it as an iPhone. It uses MicroSIM, which no phones use (but the iPad 3G does). Most importantly, the guts of the phone are all labeled “Apple.” Holy crap. This is major. This may be the biggest leak to ever get out of Apple. source
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16 Mar 2010 11:11

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Culture: “Avatar” comes to DVD April 22, but it’s missing something

  • yes The “Avatar” DVD will come out on the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, which nicely dovetails into the plot.
  • no The DVD will not be in 3D. Not in 3D? What’s the freaking point? Now it’s just another movie. source
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05 Mar 2010 12:06

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World: Chile’s earthquake death toll kind of a fluid, imperfect thing

  • 802 number of people reported killed by the quake on Wednesday
  • 279 updated number of people reported killed by the quake on Thursday
  • wtf? Chile claims that the old toll counted people who were still missing source
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25 Feb 2010 19:34

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Culture: Dear Boner from Growing Pains: Rest in peace, dude.

  • Andrew Koenig was found dead in Vancouver today. Koenig, known as Mike Seaver’s sidekick “Boner” on the show, was found in a Vancouver park. He had been missing since Valentine’s Day. Our thoughts are with his family, including father Walter of Star Trek fame. source
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21 Feb 2010 21:16

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Culture: Missing: One Boner. Growing Pains sidekick Andrew Koenig gone

Koenig, best known as a sidekick of Kirk Cameron, left a note for his dad, Walter Koenig of “Star Trek” fame, that freaked him out. We hope he’s found safe. source
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09 Dec 2009 21:31

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World: Lost and found: A bunch of Americans in Pakistan for some reason

  • 5 Americans went to Pakistan and are now suspected of terrorism source
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30 Oct 2009 10:25

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Biz: Corporate bureaucracy gets Pepsi in hot water over Aquafina

  • one letter the piece of information informing PepsiCo they were getting sued over their Aquafina bottled water; it got lost
  • $1.25 billion the size of the default judgment two lucky Wisconsin men won because PepsiCo didn’t send a representative; oops source
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17 Sep 2009 20:55

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Tech: It’s a “new known issue.” Well, that’s good to know. Thanks Twitter!

  • There is nothing our users can do to fix this issue at the moment. Don’t worry though! We have not lost any of your images. They will all come back soon.
  • A status message on Twitter’s help forum regarding the disappearance of background images and avatars • Which is essentially the equivalent of saying that they spilled beer on the server. But doesn’t Twitter use the cloud? We wonder what it’d be like to spill beer on a cloud. Would it just fall through? Would it freeze? Or would it create a frosty brew? The strange things we think of when we’re waiting for our #(^(!@& avatars to return to Twitter. • source
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13 Sep 2009 22:52

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U.S.: The Yale grad student story – slowly getting more disturbing

  • Tuesday Annie Le, a Yale grad student who was supposed be getting married this weekend, went missing after going into a school building.
  • Saturday Bloody clothes were found in the ceiling, and other details came out, including an abruptly-canceled class Le was to be attending Tuesday.
  • Today On the day of her wedding, a body was found inside a wall in the building. Investigators say it’s probably her. source
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13 Sep 2009 22:33

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Sports: The Orange County Register’s Mark Whicker: I’m a freaking idiot

  • It was not my intention to do so. But it’s obvious that I miscalculated the effect the column on Jaycee Dugard, and the events that she might have missed during her captivity, had on those who read, buy and advertise in our newspaper.
  • Mark Whicker • On his column last Tuesday, which may go down in history as the most misguided sports column ever. In it, Whicker used Jaycee Dugard’s kidnapping and captivity as a hook to look back at the last 18 years of sports. The copy-editing staff understood why this might be a bad idea, giving the column this boring-as-nails headline: “Many odd things have happened in sports the past 18 years.” The next day, readers gave him a lashing for his idiocy. He then apologized. The editors also apologized, but it was still beyond boneheaded. It was downright sick. • source
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