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We Can't Wait for the New iPhone G3

"It's even faster than the old iPhone G3."

Found on Time. Think you can do better? You probably can. Hit the comments and give it your best shot. [Time via BGR]

6:30 PM on Sun Jun 22 2008
By Mark Wilson
24,977 views, 108 comments

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How to Implode a Tanker Car in Under a Second


Here's a tip for next time you're emptying a sealed storage tank on a train or a truck: make sure you properly vent it! If you don't, it'll implode in an amazing fashion, which might make for an entertaining video but will probably get you yelled at and fired. But hot damn, who knew tanks could crumple themselves up like a soda can like that? [Neatorama]

10:45 AM on Wed Apr 23 2008
By Adam Frucci
30,607 views, 74 comments

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MPAA: Did We Say 44% of Piracy Was Done By Students? We Meant 15%, Our Bad!

So the MPAA used to shout about a study they performed that showed that 44% of illegal movie downloading was done by college students, a figure they used as evidence that our government needed to enact some laws to keep our feckless youth population under control. The only problem? The study was complete BS, with the real figure hovering a bit closer to the 15% mark. Oops! More »

11:20 AM on Wed Jan 23 2008
By Adam Frucci
6,171 views, 66 comments

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Microsoft Customer Service Makes a Follow-Up Call 10 Years Too Late

Here's a call you never expect to get: a customer service followup from Microsoft… ten years after the first call. That's exactly what happened to a guy who had called the big M way back on January 7, 1998. On the 8th of this month, he got a followup call to make sure everything was going OK. A nice gesture, but what really makes it a great story is that his copy of Windows ME still sucks. You'd think they'd have resolved those problems by now, wouldn't you? The real reason for the delayed call is pretty simple: a typo. Yep, they put in '08 instead of '98. Understandable, I suppose. [Consumerist]

4:45 PM on Mon Jan 14 2008
By Adam Frucci
4,730 views, 8 comments

Latest by brian1cj: @Three-Cent-Stamp: OMG Microsoft stole this idea of calling 10 years late from Apple! more »

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Sony's Spelling Blunders

A reader of our blogging cohorts, Kotaku, hit up Sony's Ginza showroom and found a comical spelling error on the displayed Playstation 3 controller. Sony just can't seem to get anything right as of late. We highly doubt the SERECT spelling error will make the shelves, but it is still nice to giggle at their expense. Kotaku's overseas correspondent, Brian A, says that SELECT is an unusual word and could be a common translating mistake. So maybe we should cut them some slack—nah, I'll just go back to laughing. – Travis Hudson More »

4:40 PM on Tue Jun 13 2006
By Travis Hudson
414 views, 10 comments

Latest by x23: so *that's* what happen when the comment 'can not be posted at this time...' ... interesting. sorry about that. more »