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    iPod Survives Falling Tree Accident, Is Not to Blame for Owner's Death

    Dutch Arcade Cabinet Carved From a Tree

    Best Xmas Tree Ever Has All the Sci-Fi Decorations You Can Imagine

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    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    08/07/09

    In reply to iPod Survives Falling Tree Accident, Is Not to Blame for Owner's Death
    Another important question to ask yourself is whether or not she would have been able to avoid the accident if she had been able to hear. There are plenty of people crushed by trees while they are cutting them down, and they KNOW its going to fall.
    Granted, its not smart to cut out the outside world completely while still interacting with it, but as far as I am concerned this is still a pretty big stretch to say that the mp3 player was a cause of the accident.
    I say, blame the jogger-hating angry beaver that caused the tree to fall!
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    Image of DustyButt™ DustyButt™
    08/06/09

    In reply to iPod Survives Falling Tree Accident, Is Not to Blame for Owner's Death

    The tree is in custody, and may be charged pending an investigation. Witnesses say that he appeared to have been intoxicated at the time of the event.
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    08/06/09

    @DustyButt™: FTW!
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    08/06/09

    In reply to iPod Survives Falling Tree Accident, Is Not to Blame for Owner's Death
    So the tree falls and the ipod idly sits by and lets it kill its owner, wheras Blackberies will come to the rescue and stop their owners falling from mountains.
    Actually can any noiseblocking be blamed? I'm pretty sure theres very few things that make a noise when falling apart form people and planes. Most things only make the noise when they hit the ground.
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    08/06/09

    In reply to iPod Survives Falling Tree Accident, Is Not to Blame for Owner's Death
    I've almost had a huge tree branch fall on me, and there was little, if any warning that someone running would have heard. One time a branch on a tree in my yard cracked, I heard like 1 second "cracks" every 90 seconds for like 5 minutes, to the point I didn't know what was making the noise till the wump of the branch falling. The one that almost took me out made no noise I could hear(storm and blowing wind) until it thudded into the ground where I would have been standing had I not turned around to move my car.
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    08/06/09

    @GitEmSteveDave: ♥'sSummermodo: F*cking trees... So unpredictable...
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    Image of DustyButt™ DustyButt™
    08/06/09

    In reply to iPod Survives Falling Tree Accident, Is Not to Blame for Owner's Death
    Obviously, she wasn't listening to the Screaming Trees.
    I keeed. I keeed.
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    Image of Nintenboy01 Nintenboy01
    08/06/09

    In reply to iPod Survives Falling Tree Accident, Is Not to Blame for Owner's Death
    What did she look like? I wonder if pictures will show up on Bestgore.com (eeww) I hope she wasn't smooshed too badly...
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    Image of macpatrik macpatrik
    08/06/09

    @Nintenboy01: Why and the fuck did I go to that website.
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    08/06/09

    @macpatrick: Lolz, I knew someone would take the bait!
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    08/06/09

    @Nintenboy01: I think we may have just found the new goatse...
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    Image of dimsum4u dimsum4u
    08/06/09

    In reply to iPod Survives Falling Tree Accident, Is Not to Blame for Owner's Death
    You know we should do the same thing that parents do when there kids go on shooting rampages. Lets blame the music! What was she listening to whatever it was it should be blammed was it Bjork?
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    08/06/09

    @dimsum4u: We are talking about the inability of someone hearing a tree fall. It's an entirely different matter.
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    Image of Diddle my Skittles Diddle my Skittles
    08/06/09

    @dimsum4u: Hmmm, thanks for proving that being a starred commenter is nothing special.
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    Image of dimsum4u dimsum4u
    08/07/09

    @Pouring a 40oz. bottle of KABOOM for my homey...: did you want a star? It's pretty special my picture has a shiny star next to it, its like grade school.
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    08/07/09

    @paperless: That is very true, but since the article doesn't state the type of headphones she used it's possible the music she was listening to was just to good. Can't we just think that she died doing something she enjoyed listening to the music she loved?
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    Image of Curves Curves
    12/12/08

    In reply to Best Xmas Tree Ever Has All the Sci-Fi Decorations You Can Imagine
    Impromptu Festivus party at Striders house tonight! Come dressed at your favorite sci-fi character in holiday gear (Darth Vader with a dreidel decorated helmet). Synthahol and browser cookies for everyone!
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/12/08

    @Curves: I can come dressed as Neo before he became the One, which...incidentally, is how I dress now.
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    Image of CTRLled CTRLled
    12/12/08

    In reply to Best Xmas Tree Ever Has All the Sci-Fi Decorations You Can Imagine
    All it's missing is a life-size Large Hadron Collider.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    12/12/08

    @CTRLled: The order for that was backlogged. They said it was broken due to bad soldering.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/12/08

    In reply to Best Xmas Tree Ever Has All the Sci-Fi Decorations You Can Imagine
    I had no idea you could put stuff like this on a Christmas tree. I thought it all had to be all religious stuff like Baby Jesus and Mary and Wise Men and nutcrackers.


    If I had known, there would be far fewer blue-and-silver globes on my Hannukah Bush and a lot more TIE Fighters.

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    Image of sqeakytoy of the apocalypse sqeakytoy of the apocalypse
    12/12/08

    @OMG! Ponies!: lol, so what are saying, that the Jewish religion is the dark side? Where's the love man, where's the love?
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/12/08

    @sqeakytoy of the apocalypse: I'm not saying that I wouldn't have X-Wings (and Y-Wings, and B-Wings, and A-Wings). But I also have to worry about mynoks chewing through the cables.


    Now I know. Next year, I'm getting a bigger Hannukah Bush and it's going to be properly decked out in geek regalia.

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    12/12/08

    In reply to Best Xmas Tree Ever Has All the Sci-Fi Decorations You Can Imagine
    whats an xmas?
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    12/12/08

    @axed: A slightly larger version of an Xwing..
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    Image of districtdon19 districtdon19
    12/12/08

    In reply to Best Xmas Tree Ever Has All the Sci-Fi Decorations You Can Imagine
    Not bad.. but no TARDIS? Dalek? Cybermen?


    So then admit it, not nearly all the sci-fi decorations I could imagine. Just a testament to how far and wide the number of sci-fi characters have gone :)

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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    12/12/08

    @districtdon19: Jesus's wording, not mine. ;)


    Good ideas though, I'll keep an eye out for 'em.

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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    12/12/08

    In reply to Best Xmas Tree Ever Has All the Sci-Fi Decorations You Can Imagine
    Welcome, WELCOME GIZMODIANS!!!


    Glad you folks like the tree!


    I'm glad to share it with my friends on Gizmodo!


    Please accept this as our card to all of you wishing the very, very best this and every year.


    If it was up to me we'd string lights around the ceiling and have all of them out all the time.


    -but I'm not dusting all that shit.

    Not me man, no way.

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    Image of FredicvsMaximvs FredicvsMaximvs
    12/12/08

    @strider_mt2k: Very, very cool Strider/Mike! I am in total sci-fi geek envy.


    Merry Christmas to you too!

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    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    12/12/08

    @strider_mt2k: Does your wife run a science fiction/ gizmo tolerance training course that my wife could sign up for? Because there is no way I could get away with that, and I really wish I could.


    /envy

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    12/12/08

    @strider_mt2k: Very nice. I have many of them myself. Actually I think I have doubles and possibly triples on some of them, including the first Enterprise ornament released. I haven't hung them in years though. Like Git Em SteveDave loves this guy->★ I have a cat to content with..
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    12/12/08

    @zenpoet: My wife is the one who went out and bought them...all of them, with few exceptions.

    She's as geeky as I am.


    I am the luckiest man on earth in that regard.

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    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    12/16/08

    @strider_mt2k: Damn you. Damn you very much.
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    Image of djmattyb djmattyb
    12/12/08

    In reply to Best Xmas Tree Ever Has All the Sci-Fi Decorations You Can Imagine
    He doesn't have the FireFly Serenity ornament. When my wife saw those on Giz, she ordered two.
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    12/12/08

    @djmattyb: Pic number three, it's next to the imperial shuttle.
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    Image of scarbrtj scarbrtj
    12/12/08

    In reply to Best Xmas Tree Ever Has All the Sci-Fi Decorations You Can Imagine
    You can't hear it, Mike, but I'm clapping.
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