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95,200 Pieces Of Chewed Gum Make Up The World’s Largest And Grossest Gumball

4:30PM January 26, 2012 | Casey Chan

That gigantic yellow stained ball of goopness? It’s made from 95,200 piece of chewed Nicorette gum. It’s the love creation of Barry Chappell, who started rolling his chewed gum into a ball back in 2006. Six years later, it’s now 62 inches in circumference and weighs 175 pounds of rubber, saliva and nastiness. People are crazy. More »


Mobile

You Won’t Believe How Much This USB Cable Costs

2:15PM January 4, 2012 | Casey Chan

I’ve long been over the ridiculously overpriced-ness of idiotic Vertu phones. 300 grand for a dumbphone? Whatever, the stupid rich who spend that stupidly are beyond saving anyway. But Vertu has hit a new low (or high?) with this one: a $US190 Vertu USB cable. More »


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If Your Favourite Clothing Store Doesn’t Spend $15,000 On A Custom Mannequin, Take Your Business Elsewhere

2:40PM June 17, 2011 | Adrian Covert

According to the New York Times, clothing retailers think that the best way to overcome THIS SLUGGISH ECONOMY is to spend thousands and thousands of dollars on a custom mannequin to display fancy threads on. More »


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Thieves Break Into Prison To Steal A TV

2:00PM March 9, 2011 | Casey Chan

Most sane people, like you and me, do all we can to avoid prison. Not these idiots in New Zealand though, who broke into prison to steal a 50-inch plasma TV. More »


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Kidnapping And Beheading A Ronald McDonald Statue Can Get You Arrested

10:00AM February 13, 2011 | Casey Chan

A group of artists kidnapped a Ronald McDonald statue and staged a spoof Al Qaeda-style hostage YouTube video. Their demands? That McDonald’s answer questions on how it produces their food. If the questions were not answered, Ronald McDonald would be executed. More »


Software

Apple And Palm: The iTunes Syncing Fight Is Officially Dumb

8:57AM October 30, 2009 | John Herrman

OK, Palm, it was cute the first time you cracked iTunes to sync with the Pre. And Apple, I guess I can understand why you’d want to keep control over your software. But really guys? Still? You look silly. More »


Gadgets

10 Really Dumb Old Inventions And Their Modern Counterparts

11:00PM October 22, 2009 | Jesus Diaz

Hookay. So, you think that this M3 sub-machine gun—with a shoot-first-and-ask-later curved barrel—is a really stupid, really dumb invention, right? I don’t blame you. But, trust me, you don’t know what really stupid, really dumb inventions are. Yet. More »


Software

Hangtime, The Dumbest iPhone App Of All

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1:00PM July 20, 2009 | Nick Broughall

If anybody anywhere actually pays money for this app, they need to seriously have their heads examined. For your $1.19 (US$0.99), you get an app that will give a readout from the accelerometer after you throw your iPhone in the air and then try and catch it. More »


EzRead: For Old People, But Marketed Toward Kids?

3:20AM June 3, 2009 | Jesus Diaz

Welcome to the future, where everyone is dumb and reality has surpassed fiction once again. This time, maximum levels of idiocy have been reached with the $US100 ezRead, a scanner that connects to your television. This is what it does:

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Does This Look Like a Gun to You ?

1:00AM April 14, 2009 | Matt Buchanan

It did to Australian cops who found this steering wheel lock while searching 18-year-old Chad Hasting’s car after they pulled him over. They called in backup and arrested him for possessing a gun.

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