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This Week’s Top Comedy Video: YouTube Ad Clusterf**k

Do you remember the good ol’ days when YouTube didn’t have any ads yet? Or the slightly worse but still pretty good days when there weren’t any annoying pop up ads that stayed on top of your video? Or the definitely worse but still pretty cool days when you could skip every commercial after five second days? What ever happened to that. Now it’s ads on ads on ads.


Panasonic VT60 Television: $3500 Of Video Perfection

When it comes to high-end HD sets, you get what you pay for. And in the case of Panasonic’s new top-of-the-line plasma set, it’s worth every cent.


Man Of Steel: Worth It Just For The Super-Powered Combat

There’s really only one reason to see the new Superman movie: to watch people with superhuman powers pounding the crap out of each other, flying into each other and burninating each other with heat vision. Luckily, The Man of Steel more than delivers on the super-punching front, even as it muddles through in other ways.


New Elysium Trailer: High-Tech Dystopia Never Looked So Good

It feels like we’ve been waiting ages for the release of Neill Blomkamp’s latest movie, Elysium. In this new trailer, we’re given a more in-depth look at what’s to come when the film comes out on August 15: sublime space habitats, an earth sliding into chaos and Matt Damon making robot jokes.


The Origins Of Pacific Rim’s Giant Robots Explained

Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming Pacific Rim is the robot versus monsters mashup we’ve all been waiting for. But the origins of the giant mechas hasn’t been explained until now, which are obviously influenced heavily by anime.


The Surest Sign Yet That Apple TV Will Be A Gaming Console

This week, Apple released its first-ever instructions for designing and developing a game controller for use with Apple products. The evidence suggests that Apple is gearing up take gaming beyond the confines of its products. It’s going to condone console-style game development. And today’s game controller for iOS 7 could mean that tomorrow’s Apple TV is a full-on gaming platform.


The Weirdest Thing On The Internet Tonight: Four Calories

This is the single most awesome Tic Tac commercial of all time — in that I will never again eat orange Tic Tacs without thinking of a fat fuzzy guy’s belly button. Now that’s branding.


The Effects Pedal For Effects Pedals Might Turn The Universe Inside Out

Scott Matthews, the son of Electro-Harmonix founder Mike Matthews, not only pointed me towards my favourite (Brooklyn-made) bicycle, but also once took me on a tour of the Electro-Harmonix guitar and effects pedal factory. Not only is it in the United States, when just about everything these days is made somewhere else, but it is in New York.


Why Pandora Just Bought An FM Radio Station In The US

Yesterday, news emerged that Pandora had acquired an FM radio station in South Dakota for an undisclosed sum. Yes, you read that right. The world’s largest internet radio station is getting into the terrestrial radio business, and it’s not because Pandora’s trying to build out its antique antenna collection.


Wireless Pillow Speakers Put A Personal Home Theatre In Your Bed

You may have spent a small fortune on the impressive home theatre setup in your living room, but when you’re watching TV in bed, are you really going to settle for the crappy sound coming from its tiny speakers? Of course not. But skip the redundant bedroom surround sound setup and go with these SoftSound pillows which feature a wireless set of stereo speakers built right in.


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