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Software
Apple And Palm: The iTunes Syncing Fight Is Officially Dumb
8:57AM 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 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
1:00PM 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 »
Hangtime, The Dumbest iPhone App Of All
1:00PM 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 »
Peripherals
EzRead: For Old People, But Marketed Toward Kids?
3:20AM 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: More »
Random Stuff
Does This Look Like a Gun to You ?
1:00AM 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. More »
Gadgets
The Cult of Snuggie Looks Almost as Bad as Scientology
12:30AM Jesus Diaz | While sleeves with blankets are not new, our partners-in-crime at Jezebel have discovered this funny remix of the terrifying Snuggie infomercial, perfect for Tibetan monks and dummies. [Jezebel] More »
Press
Guy Gets Back Stolen Car and Phone by Texting Thieves He’s Got Hot Girls and Drugs
5:20AM Matt Buchanan | Alan Heuss was carjacked. The thieves made off with his BMW, cash and mobile phone. But they did not steal his brain. So he came up with a plan involving hot girls and drugs. More »
Weapons
Canadian Cops Tase Knife-Wielding 82-Year-Old Patient in his Hospital Bed
6:00AM Addy Dugdale | The cops in Canada seem to be getting the hang of the Taser business. Mounties summoned to a British Columbia hospital tased an octogenarian patient after he pulled a knife from his pocket. Eighty-two-year-old Frank Lasser, who was suffering from pneumonia and had been admitted to Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, claimed that sometimes he got delusional when he got short of breath. Did that, however, make it right for the police to tase him, bro? More »
Science
NASA to Doomsday Asteroid Student: “Shut Up, Dimwit”
9:37AM Jesus Diaz | Stop looting supermarkets and get back to your homes, because NASA is saying that “doomsday” asteroid Apophis doesn’t have any significant chance of impacting Earth in 2036, basically classifying the 13-year-old German student as a moronic smartypants. In fact, even if it hit, it wouldn’t have been the end of the world. Or that’s what we would like to believe, looking at all the information we have compiled:
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9:43AM Seamus Byrne | Well, if the papers want to finger us for dumb stuff, we’ll poke them right back.
In yesterday’s Herald Sun, a story on the latest iPhone unlock (you know, those unlocks we’ve covered here every which way over the past umpteen weeks) they leak some clearly confidential news that Apple has sold off that part of the business to Microsoft.
Haha. Suck it, News! We’re so much better than you. When we typo shit like that, we can come straight back in and edit history. Print is forever (though so too are screen grabs and the Wayback Machine, I guess…) -Seamus Byrne [iPhoneMojo] More »
Herald Sun breaks news of Microsoft iPhone
9:43AM Seamus Byrne | Well, if the papers want to finger us for dumb stuff, we’ll poke them right back.
In yesterday’s Herald Sun, a story on the latest iPhone unlock (you know, those unlocks we’ve covered here every which way over the past umpteen weeks) they leak some clearly confidential news that Apple has sold off that part of the business to Microsoft.
Haha. Suck it, News! We’re so much better than you. When we typo shit like that, we can come straight back in and edit history. Print is forever (though so too are screen grabs and the Wayback Machine, I guess…) -Seamus Byrne [iPhoneMojo] More » 
