Is LG making the RAZR mistake?

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Matt wrote:
Fashion or not, trend or not, there's no excuse for riding your success and market share in to the ground instead of innovating. Even if you don't get it right, don't have "The Next Big Thing," you at least have to try.

I saw the ad too, and I don't get it either.

The iPhone is a piece of shit...

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Maddox is in fine form:

No, I'm not going to get an iPhone, quit emailing me about it. I'm not getting one because I already have a phone that's better: it's called the Nokia E70, it's the pinnacle of human achievement, and I love it more than my family…

The Facebook lawsuit that hasn't gone away

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The lawsuit, filed by brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra, accuses Zuckerberg, Facebook's 23-year-old C.E.O, of stealing the source code, design, and business plan for Facebook in 2003 when he briefly worked in the Harvard dorms as a programmer for their own fledgling social-networking site, now known as ConnectU.

HDTV Died

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Our living room HDTV died this morning. No lights, no power. I have no idea what's wrong with it, nor do I care at this point. I've already had it replaced once, but it is no longer under warranty.

We had to take an emergency trip to Costco to buy a new one.

I had to enlist the help of a neighbor (Thanks, Paul!) to help carry and set it up upstairs.

I've put the old one on Craig's List, maybe someone is interested in trying to fix it.

How Gullible Are We?

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A student at Eagle Rock Junior High won first prize at the Greater Idaho Falls Science Fair. He was attempting to show how conditioned we have become to alarmists practicing junk science and spreading fear of everything in our environment.

Why am I not surprised?

ATM Reprogramming

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Police in Derry, Pennsylvania are baffled by a June ATM robbery in which an unidentified man wearing flip flops and shorts strolled into Mastrorocco's Market and reprogrammed the cash machine to think it was dispensing dollar bills instead of twenties.

This is very much in line with the burglars who used Google to crack a safe.