The National Health Service in the London Borough of Hounslow, in an effort to coax young people into getting tested, is offering free self-service STD kits, with an added bonus: text message diagnosis!.
Considering how Sol Trujillo likes to roll with the big dogs, I always imagined him walking through the streets with a small army of special forces agents protecting him from the scum of the earth (and us regular folks). But it turns out he actually enjoys rubbing shoulders with the little people — so close that they can casually walk away with his special prototype HTC phone running Windows Mobile 6.5.
It’s a general assumption that having your phone on in an aeroplane is no bigs, but we turn them off anyways. Apparently, pilots aren’t following their own rules and are getting in trouble for it.
A British comedian spotted a dude in the audience texting on his phone, so he took it and smashed it. His reason: the guy was stealing jokes to sell to TV people. But of course!
More than often, we get dumb press releases here in Gizmodo. This one starts with the following: “MAKE MUM THE ENVY OF THE BLOCK WITH STYLISH WESTINGHOUSE LCD HDTVs.” It goes downhill from there.
Good news, copyright bandits: due to an error by the prosecution in misunderstanding exactly how BitTorrent trackers work, all charges related to “assisting copyright infringement” have been dropped. Halfway there!
Geeksugar interviews our very own Elaine Chow, asking her, among other things, what it’s like to work at the sausage fest that is Gizmodo. [Geeksugar]
Flight 3407, a commuter plane crashed into a home in upstate New York and erupted in flames earlier tonight. Authorities say the death toll is currently at 49 people. Update
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If you’re not familiar with Stephen Colbert’s awesome Colbert Report on Foxtel’s Comedy Channel, you should spend the rest of the day over at ColbertNation.com becoming acquainted. On last night’s episode, Colbert not only listed Bill Gates as the US’s 4th greatest threat (around about the 1:34 mark on the clip above) for his mosquito shenanigans at TED, but also gave Giz the patented “Colbert Bump” when he talked about this story (at 2:32) complete with Giz screenshot. Make sure you check it out.
