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Why the Fantastic 4 Human Torch ATV (with Light-Up Headlights!) is the Worst Movie Tie-In Toy Ever
What does the freaking Human Torch need with headlights anyway? HE’S ON FIRE!
(Not suitable for those with an aversion to profanity)

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With Verizon well on its way to making Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) based services available to half the U.S. population by the end of this year, it was looking more and more like the company would end up with a stranglehold on wireless broadband. No longer. Today Sprint introduced some competition to the 3G market, beginning [...]

How to exercise an animal that doesn’t exist? That’s one of the conundrums facing scientists at the University of Maryland who are using tissue engineering techniques to develop lab-grown meats. Writing in the journal Tissue Engineering, doctoral student Jason Matheny suggests meat could be “cultured” from the muscle tissue of cattle, pigs, poultry or [...]

“Coined the term ‘weblog,’ never made a dime.”

– The text of Robot Wisdom founder Jorn Barger’s panhandler sign.

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Well, if this doesn’t sound like something for the Crazy Apple Rumors site. Writing in Forbes today, David Ewalt speculates that Apple may be gearing up to become a mobile virtual network operator. Building on reports that wireless carriers are balking at the Apple/Motorola iTunes phone (see “You have to understand, Mr. Jobs is [...]

For a company that claims to be such a staunch advocate of Firefox, it certainly has taken Google a long time to release a version of its toolbar for the upstart browser. It’s been four years since the company launched Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer, and only now has it begun offering a Firefox version [...]

It’s back to work for Sven Jaschan, the German teenager who created last year’s Sasser computer worm and its variants. A judge on Friday handed down a suspended sentence of one year and nine months to the teen whose handiwork crippled institutions worldwide. Luckily for the lad, sentence was passed on what was apparently [...]

An archive of Live 8 performances unspoiled by MTV “coverage,” Don’t Click It and Gerald Mc Boing Boing

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