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 ISSUE 95 * AUGUST 17, 2007

FORWARD TO A FRIEND! 

It's OK to Steal From the Internet!

AT LEAST THAT'S WHAT SOME BUSINESSES SEEM TO THINK. A global epidemic of mostly small businesses are grabbing the branding -- names, logos, color schemes, taglines, everything! -- of online companies for their own use.

While visiting Turkey, for example, make sure you go clothes shopping at Google Fashion. If you need bedding instead, skip on over to Venezuela where you'll find the Google Shop linen store.

If you find yourself in Malaysia, check out a computer store there called Engadget (not to be confused with an older store there called Engadget, which went out of business last year).

In Macedonia, you can grab a cup of coffee at MySpace (a place for friends).

And while visiting Sarajevo, don't forget to grab some "java" at the Club Bill Gates Coffee Shop! They have windows!

 

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Welcome to the Amazing iPhone Freak Show!

Step right up, folks! See AMAZING WONDERS OF THE iPHONE WORLD! Prepare to be amazed, ladies and gentlemen, when you see the Lobster-Thumb Boy; World's Fattest Phone Bill; the Elastic iPhone; the Missing Link; the World's Fastest iPhone; The Amazing Hall of Mirrors iPhone; and much more!


Porta-Potties Used For Hubs At Hacker Camp

Think YOU have a crappy connection? The Chaos Communication Camp needed shelter for its network hubs, so it employed 16 PORTA-POTTIES for the task. Campers get broadband Ethernet from their tents and Wi-Fi everywhere.


'Stomach Cam' Gets Stuck In Man 3 Months

Doctors performed a procedure called capsule endoscopy -- involving the swallowing of a pill-shaped camera to take internal snapshots -- on a guy named Roger Whitlock at Kingston Hospital in Kingston upon Thames in Surrey, UK. The camera checked in, but it never checked out. The camera got LODGED in his digestive system, and doctors had to remove it surgically three months later. Doctors aren't saying if the camera kept taking pictures during its summer vacation inside Mr. Whitlock.


Skincare Ad Can't Claim Cell Phone Protection

The UK's Advertising Standards Authority ordered skincare firm Clarins to stop advertising its Expertise 3P spray as PROTECTION AGAINST CELL PHONE RADIATION because -- shock! -- it cannot prove the claim.


Clothing Store Installs Popular 'Butt Cam'

"Does my ass look fat in this?" The Hub Clothing in Scottsdale, Arizona, has installed a BUTT CAM -- a camera so shoppers can see how their backsides look when trying on new clothes.


Proof You Can Buy Anything on the Web

Just fire up your browser and all this can be yours:

A USB gadget that gets brighter the faster you type

An old-school vinyl record player that records to MP3

and even an air-conditioned tie!


Cell Phone Follies

An enterprising fellow in India is pimping his iPhone -- literally -- giving you 15 minutes of supervised "SEXY TOUCHING TIME" for $12.

Sohu.com says that 25% of all cell phones sold inside China are ILLEGAL COUNTERFEITS, according to ChinaTechNews.com.

Justine Ezarik, who runs the Tasty Blog Snack blog videotapes herself opening her iPhone AT&T bill, which came in a box and totaled more than 300 PAGES.

Sitting on the fence about buying an iPhone? Sit no more: Apple's iPhone NOW PLAYS DOOM.


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Wacky Web Sites

If you're obsessed with other people's grocery lists -- and, after all, who isn't? -- you'll love The Grocery List Collection web site.

The Paleo-Future blog is an interesting look at yesterday's visions of the future. Flying car anyone?

Slogans sell. That's why companies like to use them in the branding of their products. But they don't always translate. Example: "Coors Light: Suffer From Diarrhea!" Moronland features the "Top 13 Worst Slogan Translations Ever"


Twisted Games

Screamin' Beans

Tiny Tetris

Momentum Missile Mayhem


Subscriber Site Showcase

Inventor Spot

Dobson Central Photography

Techno News

The Irish Caper

Deezle

Wing Lau's Blog

Hi Tech On the Web

Kevin's Crate Blog

Blonde Tiger Lady Creations

On Da Strempf

World Theaters

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