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03 Dec 2011 20:23

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Tech: Electronic Arts attempts to nickel-and-dime die-hard Tetris fans

  • $30 per year to subscribe to a special Tetris club (?!?) source
  • » Wait, what?!? If you’re like us, you’re a huge fan of Tetris, one of the simplest, best video games ever created. However, Electronic Arts couldn’t leave well enough alone with its iOS edition, and rebooted it as a version of Farmville, essentially. Now, just to play the game (which you have to pay 99 cents for, by the way), you have to register for a special social network run by EA. And for the biggest fans, they’ve created a “T-Club” component, in which you pay $2.99 per month — or $30 per year for the die-hards — just for the right to get some extra power-ups. And the final kicker: The original iOS game, which was perfectly fine as-is, no longer exists on the App Store. For shame.
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07 Jan 2011 03:02

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Culture: We just found the most useless slideshow in online news history

  • Mila Kunis. Ashton Kutcher. Topher Grace. Most of the cast of “That ’70s Show” is still famous and in the news enough that a “Where are They Now?” slideshow isn’t really necessary. But that didn’t stop CNN from making one. The only real surprise is the very last one. source
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26 Dec 2010 10:06

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Offbeat: Stupid kid learns you shouldn’t bring iPhone to a knife fight

  • dumb Let’s say you’re a would-be robber the week of Christmas. Where’s the best place to rob? An Indian restaurant? Probably not.
  • dumber Now, let’s say you go in there and try to rob said Indian restaurant … oh wait, did you forget that the cooks have knives? Yeah, you’re dumb.
  • dumbest Finally, let’s say that, rather than using a gun to rob said Indian restaurant … you use an iPhone. Yeah, you’re a freaking moron, kid. source
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07 Sep 2010 10:25

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Politics: Amid warnings, Pastor Terry Jones plans to pray really hard

  • But don’t for a second think they plan not to go through with their stupid idea. After hearing criticism from the U.S. military about his congregation’s plan to go through with that whole idiotic “Burn a Koran Day” thing, Jones was on CNN kinda sorta giving lip service to the idea of not doing it. “We have firmly made up our mind, but at the same time, we are definitely praying about it,” he says. He wants to be sure his intentions are clear. You know, that his flock’s Koran burning is meant to be really nice. source
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17 Aug 2010 20:59

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Music: Erykah Badu naked + hype + annoyed city of Dallas = Tiny fine

  • $500 the size of Badu’s fine for taking off her clothes for a music video last winter; she also got six months probation for the act
  • huge the amount of free publicity she got; the fine was worth it, and the city of Dallas is completely idiotic to miss this point source
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16 Aug 2010 20:21

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Politics: Ground Zero saga: Harry Reid throws Obama under the mosque

  • The First Amendment protects freedom of religion. Sen. Reid respects that but thinks that the mosque should be built some place else.
  • Sen. Harry Reid’s spokesman, Jim Manley • In a message regarding the Senate Majority Leader’s stance on the not-really-Ground-Zero mosque. Reid’s comments show the senator being pulled from two different directions. While he’s Obama’s best bud, he’s also under heavy attack from Sharron Angle in Nevada, who dared Reid to have a stance on the issue. He did. And now Obama is screwed. source
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20 Jul 2010 03:01

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Offbeat: Mexican monkey smuggler no match for airline security

  • 18 monkeys around this dude’s freaking waist source
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25 Jun 2010 12:45

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Tech: Apple fail: They’re “holding it wrong” all over their many iPhone ads

As Engadget helpfully points out, Apple is being super-hypocritical by suggesting users, not the iPhone 4’s design, is at fault for its problems. source
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20 Jun 2010 21:08

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Politics: The stupidest quote we’ve ever seen on friendship, ever

  • Parents sometimes say Johnny needs that one special friend. We say he doesn’t need a best friend.
  • School counselor Christine Laycob • On fighting the tide of human nature, which emphasizes that Tango needs his very own Cash. Instead, Laycob says that it’s better that kids have groups of friends who meet at specified times for playdates. Dear Ms. Laycob: Let kids be kids! Don’t force modest, superficial relationships on people over real ones with real emotions! Can’t you just sit in an office all day and be useless like most school counselors? You make it seem like close relationships are awful ideas. source
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11 Jun 2010 11:38

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Culture: Dear Michael Jordan: Lose the Hitler mustache, dude

  • This has actually been bothering us for a while. MJ may be the retired king of the basketball court, but it doesn’t mean he can get away with anything. This ‘stache of his, which he’s been wearing for a while, actually, randomly started getting attention after he wore it in this Hanes ad. Dude. It looks stupid. There, we said it. Charles Barkley (hilariously) agrees with us: “That is one of the stupidest things that I have seen in a long time,” he said recently. source
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