Here’s something Palm execs can’t like to see: a listing for a Palm Pre holster on BestBuy.com that says “iPod sold separately” on its image. At least the picture is of a Pre, right? [BestBuy.com; Thanks, Rob!]
Zune Guy — arguably the greatest fanboy of our time — has decided to finally commit his acrimonious separation from his namesake to ink. So what does he do? He integrates the Zune logo into a tattoo of Dick Cheney as the Devil, where it serves as a makeshift inverted pentagram on the veep’s forehead. As far as tattoos go, this not-quite-complete piece of agitprop is a minor improvement and much easier to explain — after all, Cheney isn’t the most popular guy in the world, and people have at least heard of him.
Maximum PC has a very long article on the failures of Vista, which culminates in a “frank conversation” with an anonymous Windows Product Manager. Of course, he says the errors are all in the past, that they are all fixed now. Or are they?
Here’s a tip for next time you’re emptying a sealed storage tank on a train or a truck: make sure you properly vent it! If you don’t, it’ll implode in an amazing fashion, which might make for an entertaining video but will probably get you yelled at and fired. But hot damn, who knew tanks could crumple themselves up like a soda can like that? [Neatorama]
So the MPAA used to shout about a study they performed that showed that 44% of illegal movie downloading was done by college students, a figure they used as evidence that our government needed to enact some laws to keep our feckless youth population under control. The only problem? The study was complete BS, with the real figure hovering a bit closer to the 15% mark. Oops!
