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VIDEO: Funny, true iPad spoof by Peter Serafinowicz

nospam@example.com (Newscat) — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:34:00 -0700

This is timely. I just had a conversation with a friend about a project he was pondering. Before snapping out of it, he'd convinced himself that iPads were a must along with several other high tech gadgets and programs to do what he eventually concluded could be accomplished several hundred dollars more cheaply and with less frustration all around without. Serafinowicz arrives at the perfect application for this project. I'd lost contact with one exactly like it, but feel I could learn to manipulate it again, which is a fairly brazen statement for anyone who knows my learning disability with technology more complicated than the on/off button.
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VIDEO: Cell phone spying, why you dont know if someone is watching you

nospam@example.com (Newscat) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:25:00 -0700

This is one woman's harrowing story, in her case an obsessed and disgruntled ex eventually gave himself away before harm could come to her, after he'd watched her every move through her cell phone. With the proliferation of cheap and easily installed devices, someone can not only listen, see texts, and monitor conversations, but watch your room, or the movie along with you in what you thought was the privacy of your home.
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Apple removes Boobie n Bikini apps from iTunes, filthy dirty porn stays

nospam@example.com (Newscat) — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:21:00 -0700

Apple as Net Nannies, Never! Okay, maybe a little, a token really. Apple, wishing to avoid more incidents of children finding porn apps and "offending their parents," pulled Boobie n Bikini apps from iTunes. Yay! Everyone felt safe and happy now.

Psst! Those in the know, say the iTunes store is still full of dirty, nasty, obscene porn. These are experts, we owe it to hear them out, even at the expense of a few moms and dads not sleeping well at night.
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VIDEO: FBI probing case that Pennsylvania school spied on students via lap tops

nospam@example.com (Newscat) — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:16:00 -0700

It is being called everything from an invasion of privacy to fodder for child porn. The 2300 laptops given out in the affluent Philadelphia suburb were only to activate the feature with the web cam to locate lost or stolen computers. Last year it became obvious that school officials were keeping an eye on students at home, raising great concern that many had left computers open in their bedrooms, unaware that anyone could or was watching them.
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PHOTO: Barbie, from sex bomb to computer engineer, does geeky Barbie fit in a mans world

nospam@example.com (Newscat) — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:05:00 -0700

Pssst.....I know how old Barbie is. Not to burst anyone's bubble, but this plastic chick has held 124 jobs since her debut in a zebra striped bathing suit in 1959 where she had a pretty good gig, just sun tanning and going on glamorous dates. Now she wants to really work for a living, when she could could kick back and draw a pension! You'd think she'd have 'found herself' by now. Babs has been everything from an astronaut, to a rock star. and race car driver. The owner of the plush Malibu Barbie mansion wants to work with binary code, subsist on Cheetos, soda, and pizza, and forget about those glam vacations! Woman in the industry discuss what aspects of authenticity Mattel has hit, and what they've missed.
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Video, Apple i Pad spoof MadTV, a revolutionary feminine hygiene product

nospam@example.com (Newscat) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:48:00 -0700

"The new iPad from Apple - can set you up with fast uploading without all that water bloating," confides one lady to another in this well done "MADtv" sketch. The greatly anticipated iPad is hailed as the most revolutionary piece of personal technology since the slide rule, but is a case of expensive product labeling gone horribly awry.
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Maddow, Most Geektacular moments 2009, large rare horny parrot shags photographers head

nospam@example.com (Newscat) — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:20:00 -0700

The top three of a year of geektacular stories from Rachel Maddow in 2009. For instance: Why parrots love men who can't love, or maybe it's their hair? Blaggo should join Stephen Fry on next year's "BBC Last Chance to See" and solve that mystery! There's much more to come!

Other stories making the top of the list: Robots who do everything, and yes, I do mean the G-rated ones, not the new sex robots. You won't be disappointed in Iranian robot snakes, wall walking robots, and scary looking "Big Dog" traveling on all fours, and of course the smaller wheeled Urban Hopper. Mix well, and add 82 baby Sea Turtles born at Sea World, then glimpse other stories which nearly made it to the finals

Jon Stewart, Net Neutrality for Dummies

nospam@example.com (Rack Jite) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:27:36 -0700

Who could be against Net Neutrality? Mostly it seems to be those who are paid very well to be against Net Neutrality along with the KIND OF PEOPLE like of congressmen Gingrey and Wilson who we pay to be corporate whores AND stupid.

Here is an updated version of the article I wrote a couple years ago here called Net Neutrality Made Simple.

There is much confusion on this issue which I will try to make short and simple. Perhaps its best to think of it in terms of the "equal protection clause" of the 14th Amendment. It concerns the same KIND OF PEOPLE then as it does now.

A cabal of internet providers - namely the cable, satellite and phone companies want to charge whatever they please to whomever they please for whatever reasons they please for different degrees of internet service. With fiber optics on the horizon they wish to sell that and other proprietary services to the highest bidder with exclusive accounts.

This means Comcast / Time Warner can sell an exclusive FIBER ACCOUNT to Yahoo which they could then deny to Google. You and I click our Google icon and it takes a minute to come up but when we click on Yahoo it comes up instantly. Who you gonna call? Imagine that in all aspects of the web. And even more problematic, they can put all the small websites like this into the very slow lane killing us off.

Google, Yahoo!, Vonage, Facebook, Ebay, Amazon and Microsoft to name just a few are advocates for Net Neutrality. The opponents are the ISPs (Comcast / Time Warner / AOL) and Telecommunications companies (Verison / T Mobile) as is the extreme wingnut Cato Institute is a big player against Net Neutrality which should be enough to conclude than Net Neutrality must be good idea.

These companies already control congress, radio, television and the very air we wave in. This medium is all there is left to everyone on an equal basis. Help Keep it that way!

Pentagon, Jet hits immoveable object at 500mph video

nospam@example.com (Rack Jite) — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:38:00 -0700

This is not so much to fart in the general direction of those who believe it was Bush and the Jews who blew up the Pentagon. After all, even after they get their ass kicked by Bill Maher its an easy argument. Well then, where is the missing airliner and people on it? End of argument.

No I present this because its just so cool!

Wyatt Cenac, Pull my finger versus I Fart

nospam@example.com (Rack Jite) — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:04:59 -0700

Soooo...
Having a large company take your fart idea and screw your bottom line is the same as black baseball Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson integrating Major League Baseball.
Hmm....
There's a guy who doan know when to shut up!
Must have had his finger pulled so often there's nothing left tween his ears.

Daily Show Governor Mark Sanford hiking Nude on Fathers Day

nospam@example.com (Rack Jite) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:17:42 -0700

There is something suspiciously missing from this story of a Governor gone missing? Where is the most central object of the 21st Century and the accompanying three most used words directed into that object. WHERE ARE YOU?

Wife and Google Street View Catch Cheating Hubby

nospam@example.com (Newscat) — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:56:00 -0700

Wives who've long suspected "business trips" now have a friendly detective agency. It's free of charge, you needn't leave your keyboard, and cheating husbands are dropping like extremely surprised and indignant flies!

Most recently, a wife whose husband claimed to be away on business, suspected where he was conducting 'business' and zoomed in on the spot. There in it's glory was her husband's unmistakable Range Rover with his special bling bling hubcaps, parked outside of the suspected female 'friend's' house, with nice big color photos to prove it.

Divorce proceedings are underway. If their divorce laws aren't the silly community property variety - he had better hope the girl friend is ready to move him in, and buy him some clothing, as his wife will have the shirt from his back with such irrefutable evidence.

This little black car doesn't look at all like the Big Brother in George Orwell's 1984, and so far the technology hasn't been put to the use those of tin hat and black helicopter paranoia imagine, but it certainly has ruined some affairs, and given the cheated upon spouse all of the evidence necessary.

This isn't an isolated case by any means, and we are speaking only of Britain where the technology is very new, having been online since March 20. There has been an explosion of divorce cases since the inception of the 360-degree photo search which covers 25 cities and towns was introduced. It does make me wonder why British women have jumped right on this technology and Americans seem to be lagging behind?

The big question now will be whether judges will agree with the only lame defense cheating spouses can offer; that an invasion of privacy cost him his marriage and Range Rover, not his roving. I know it wouldn't fly with Judge Judy, how much less with the powdered wig crowd remains to be seen.

Divorce cases aside, others have been caught for lesser things since its launch on March 20, and complaints have been streaming in, causing Google to remove at least the following two images. Was it truly necessary to show a man furtively leaving a sex shop? Google risks becoming Big Brother when they publish photos of this sort, as well as that of an office worker having a cigarette next to a No Smoking sign.

Perhaps we would want to know if this one is true however. The Sun published that a fleet of UFOs were seen on Street View hovering over an East London bookies establishment, perhaps they wanted in on the action? Wife and Google Street View Catch Cheating Hubby

Video:Popular Sing Star Karaoke Is Wireless Now, You Can Sing And Move

nospam@example.com (Newscat) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:14:24 -0700

Sing Star, already popular beyond the designer's wildest dreams is now wireless, allowing amateurs to compete or practice their chorography along with their singing in their very own home or a party setting. This may well be a blessing to the karaoke crowd.

Originally designed as a "girl's game", sales skyrocketed to both sexes and all ages. Over 400,000 users have formed an online community, it will only grow more with the wireless advantages you see here in the video with virtually everyone represented here expressing themselves, bustin' a move, gettin'down with their bad selves, Dancin' with them se-helves, cutting a rug, jumpin' around, gettin' up off o' that thing! being served, serving tea?

Ungrateful Cell Phone Explodes in Chinese Shop, Stephen King Was Right

nospam@example.com (Newscat) — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:19:00 -0700

Stephen King in his fictional book "Cell" warned of a very bad behavior-producing, zombie-like virus transmitted via cell phone. As of that time, neither he nor his wife novelest Tabitha King carried cell phones, making the three of us the only people in the United States. "Call me on the land line sonny." I don't feel quite so badly now.

A 20-something shop assistant in Guangzhou, China had his lifetime cell phone minutes used up, as in forever and suddenly. Ironically it due to simply charging and replacing his cell phone battery. He'd just finished charging the battery and put the phone in his pocket when it inexplicably exploded. Little is known as the other employee wasn't there, but heard a loud bang and ran in to find her co-worker on the floor. This is the ninth recorded incident in China since 2002. This most high profile was that of a welder who kept his phone in his pocket, raising one very important safety precaution, heat and batteries do not mix. An inquiry found that the mobile phone battery had exploded due to the heat of the iron mill. The Lithium batteries widely used in mobile phones can explode if they're overcharged, or if exposed to heat the inflammable liquid inside can explode.

As always, use caution in purchasing phones and batteries. The investigation continues. While the store was a Lenovo computer products outlet, police are investigating whether the phone and battery were counterfeit. The next question is how to tell, does anyone know, other than slight misspellings? Two of the world's biggest mobile phone battery makers Nokia and Motorola were quick to deny they were the distributors of the volatile batteries, proclaiming them to be counterfeit.

After the latest incident, the Shin Min Daily News published advice for consumers on how to avoid mobile phone explosions. The tips included:

Always use original batteries. Be sure that batteries by the manufacturer are meant for your mobile phone.

Never modify your phone

Always use original battery chargers

Do not expose your mobile phone to high temperatures, and avoid exposing it to direct sunlight

Avoid long phone conversations

Do not make or answer calls when the phone is charging

Try to keep your phone in a bag instead of in a pocket

Do not use damaged batteries This, will keep you safe from everything except zombie syndrome, good luck! Ungrateful Cell Phone Explodes in Chinese Shop, Stephen King Was Right

Daily Show, Samantha Bee and Roombas of Doom, The Doombas

nospam@example.com (Rack Jite) — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:52:16 -0700

The question arises, is killing stupid children wrong?