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Vehicles
Idiot Plane Passenger Steadies Himself With An Ejection Handle
12:20PM Sean Fallon | My guess is that when the rockets under his seat fired and he suddenly found himself over 90m away from the PC-7 Mk II he was riding in, he probably realised the error of his ways. More »
Vehicles
Why You Should Always Be Careful While Using A Forklift
4:42AM Adam Frucci | In this video, a hapless Russian warehouse worker destroys about $US250,000 of precious, precious vodka in about three seconds (he escaped unscathed). Insert Yakov Smirnoff joke here. [English Russia via The Daily What]
Software
Reports: Snow Leopard Bug Eats User Accounts Whole
3:00AM John Herrman | A small but understandably very upset group of people are reporting a bug in Snow Leopard that totally wipes out account data without warning. The consensus seems to be that it has something to do with guest accounts: the data loss seems to come directly after using one, and trying to log back into a regular account. More »
Business
Unfortunate Corporate Slogans, Nokia Edition: TAG YOUR IT!
12:40PM Dan Nosowitz | No, this slogan isn’t a typo, and yes, the English-speaking Nokia reps were extremely embarrassed about it. The best part? The phrase is written everywhere at this booth, from t-shirts to rebranded cans of soup. More idiom-related wackiness post-jump. More »
Vehicles
World’s Fastest Car Wash Has Its Disadvantages
1:20AM John Herrman | I feel like there’s an adage in here somewhere. How about this: If you have to say “oh, but it’s just water!” before doing something, then you probably have no business doing it. More »
Random Stuff
Pittsburgh Skyscraper’s Morse Code Signal Spells “Pitetsbkrrh”
9:30PM Dan Nosowitz | Pittsburgh, PA’s 33-story Grant Building famously spells out the name of the city in Morse Code so brightly it can be seen for over 100 miles. Except it doesn’t actually spell Pittsburgh, but “Pitetsbkrrh.” Eep. More »
Phones
Are You This Douchebag?
10:00AM Matt Buchanan | Suburbanites need not venture further, since your torpid bodies have grown into your automobiles. City dwellers, this is how you probably look to everyone else, stumbling around with your iPhone. More »
Phones
I Dropped My Stupid iPhone and Broke the Stupid Screen
2:20AM Adam Frucci | Is there a worse moment than when your phone slips as you pull it from your pocket, sending it tumbling towards the sidewalk? Maybe the one when you pick it up and it’s fucking broken. More »
Networks
AT&T Says Horrible Terms of Service Update Was All a Big Mistake
10:14AM Matt Buchanan | Millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and AT&T swiftly backtracked on the draconian updates to their terms of the service that effectively ban Skype, Sling and other goodness: It’s all a big mistake! More »
Software
