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Welcome to the Amazing iPhone
Freak Show!
Step right up, folks! See
AMAZING WONDERS OF THE iPHONE WORLD! Prepare to be
amazed, ladies and gentlemen, when you see the Lobster-Thumb
Boy; World's Fattest Phone Bill; the Elastic iPhone; the Missing
Link; the World's Fastest iPhone; The Amazing Hall of Mirrors
iPhone; and much more!
 Porta-Potties
Used For Hubs At Hacker Camp
Think YOU have a crappy
connection? The Chaos Communication Camp needed shelter for its
network hubs, so it employed 16
PORTA-POTTIES for the task. Campers get broadband
Ethernet from their tents and Wi-Fi everywhere.
'Stomach Cam' Gets Stuck In Man 3
Months
Doctors performed a procedure
called capsule endoscopy -- involving the swallowing of a
pill-shaped camera to take internal snapshots -- on a guy named
Roger Whitlock at Kingston Hospital in Kingston upon Thames in
Surrey, UK. The camera checked in, but it never checked out. The
camera got
LODGED in his digestive system, and doctors had to
remove it surgically three months later. Doctors aren't saying
if the camera kept taking pictures during its summer vacation
inside Mr. Whitlock.
Skincare Ad Can't Claim Cell
Phone Protection
The UK's Advertising
Standards Authority ordered skincare firm Clarins to stop
advertising its
Expertise 3P spray as
PROTECTION AGAINST CELL PHONE RADIATION because --
shock! -- it
cannot prove the claim.
Clothing Store Installs Popular
'Butt Cam'
"Does my ass look fat in
this?" The Hub Clothing in Scottsdale, Arizona, has installed a
BUTT CAM -- a camera so shoppers can see how their
backsides look when trying on new clothes.
Proof You Can Buy Anything on the
Web
Just fire up your browser and all
this can be yours:
A USB gadget that gets brighter the faster you type
An old-school vinyl record player that records to MP3
and even
an air-conditioned tie!
Cell Phone Follies
An enterprising fellow in
India is pimping his iPhone -- literally -- giving you 15
minutes of supervised "SEXY
TOUCHING TIME" for $12.
Sohu.com says that 25% of all
cell phones sold inside China are
ILLEGAL COUNTERFEITS, according to ChinaTechNews.com.
Justine Ezarik, who runs the
Tasty Blog Snack blog videotapes herself opening her iPhone AT&T
bill, which came in a box and totaled more than
300 PAGES.
Sitting on the fence about
buying an iPhone? Sit no more: Apple's iPhone
NOW PLAYS DOOM.
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Wacky
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If you're obsessed with other people's
grocery lists -- and, after all, who isn't? -- you'll love
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The
Paleo-Future blog
is an interesting look at yesterday's visions of the future.
Flying car anyone?
Slogans sell. That's why companies like to
use them in the branding of their products. But they don't
always translate. Example: "Coors Light: Suffer From Diarrhea!"
Moronland
features the "Top 13 Worst Slogan Translations Ever"
Twisted
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