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Dear Australian Telcos: Don’t Ever Do This. Ever.
This is awful. Utterly, completely, corporate suit wearing, slicked back hair smelling, awful. US carrier Verizon has stamped its logo on top of the new Samsung Galaxy Note II. Do you see it? Yes. That’s right, the Verizon logo is on the freaking phone’s home button. Covering it. Are you kidding me.
The Apple Vs Android Fanboy Wars
Here’s a brief note intended for the minority commenters who make things nasty. As a community, let’s start smiling again on Gizmodo Australia. Let’s improve the tone. The war doesn’t make any sense. This whole fanboys vs fandroids thing, the iPhone vs Galaxy, the iPad vs Kindle Fire…They’re just machines at the end of the day.
If You Thought George Lucas Couldn’t Sink Any Deeper, You Were Wrong
I still remember Joel’s plea to forgive George Lucas for his many sins. He had a point. Kind of. A little. Ish. Had. Whatever mercy I had left for this man — a man who I greatly respected and admired as a creator — has completely disappeared after watching the trailer for Star Wars’ Detours, a comedy.
Why It’s Sometimes Best Not To Digitally Document Every Exciting Life Event
Over the weekend I attended a US concert of the Deftones opening for System of a Down — which I was hell bent on documenting, thoroughly, using my iPhone. All through the Deftone’s set, I snapped pictures and took video. Then it started to pour, with thunder and lightning very nearly cancelling the rest of the show, even before SOAD took the stage, and my phone was temporarily borked via water damage, primarily in the camera functionality.
