Watch That Tiny, $74 1.5GHz Android-Powered Thumb-Puter In Action 
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Laptop Buying Guide 2012: How To Find The Right Laptop For You Ah, Balloon Boy. It happened barely two months ago, yet it already seems ready to show up on an I Love the 00s nostalgia-fest. Anyway, Balloon Boy’s a-hole parents just got hit with a $US42,000 bill for the stunt.
Thanks to a clandestine meeting with a source, I got a chance to play with and try out the Nexus One. It’s basically, from my time with it, Google’s Droid killer. It’s thin, it’s fast, it’s better in every way.
So like the Droid before it, the Cliq has been rooted. It’s not ready for wholesale fun-making mods yet, however – it’s not capable of handling new ROMs quite yet. But it will be, my friends. Mods like Cyanogen, Sense and more should be coming soon, in case you’re sick of Blur’s Twitter interface being all up in YOUR face, nah mean? [Redmond Pie]
Holy friggin’ hell! I don’t know how I didn’t see this before, but apparently Norwegians eliminate hazardous rocks by having helicopters slam a huge swinging ball against a cliff. I really hope I don’t ever piss off a Norwegian. Geez!
Today’s Remainders are gelled, tanned and fist-pumping: Dell pulls ads from World’s Greatest TV Show (Jersey Shore); Facebook tempts spouses to cheat; Apple approves, pulls an NES emulator; and a recipe for bacon cups. That’s right, cups made of bacon.
Panasonic’s latest Bonus Wii promotion hasn’t gone down too well with the ACCC, with the regulator instituting proceedings against the electronics company for publishing ads that failed to disclose important conditions of the promotion that resulted in deceptive or misleading conduct. Oh, snap!
A Firefox developer has posted a handful of mockups of Firefox 4′s user interface redesign along with some explanations of this shiny new App Button we’re getting. Everything just looks oh-so-gorgeous and simplified right next to that old 3.5 design.
