Parenting is not its own reward
It’s said that crime does not pay, but this may now be otherwise. A man was able to nab not one, but two Xbox 360s from a Beavercreek, Ohio Best Buy while carrying a diaper bag and a real live baby....
View ArticleApple not in the pesticide business … yet
This time it isn’t an employee falling off a roof or out of a window. This time, it’s pesticide. Foxconn, the world’s largest manufacturer of electronics, is responsible for assembling the Xbox 360,...
View ArticleThe more things change …
… the more they stay the same. Seriously, it’s like people think there aren’t any securities for this sort of thing built into these machines.
View ArticleToo gay for Xbox Live
When banned, a 26-year-old Xbox Live gamer called Xbox support to explain that his town of Fort Gay, West Virginia, was a real place and not a homosexual slur, he was threatened with account...
View ArticleJust photoshop the revolution away
We don’t really know the average age of our readers (not until we do our SeriouslyInquisitive Survey/Pop Up Ad, am I right?), but it’s safe to assume that the internet is getting younger. Or at least,...
View ArticleCity landscape ‘changed dramatically, tragically and perhaps irreversibly’
MICROSOFT KINECT DOESN’T CARE ABOUT DARK PEOPLE. That’s how it went, right? I mean, I’m pretty sure that’s how it went, right? I mean, it was over 5 years ago, and my memory isn’t exactly fantastic,...
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How to upgrade your PC: the installment plan
Windows 7 Pro originally cost over $200 … unless you also bought Vista — in which case, it really cost you over $400. Microsoft corporate vice president of corporate communications (he’s really...
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You Missed It: Pope culture edition
Making sure everyone has food? Whatever, comrade! Well, that’s another week over. If you survived it, you should be happy. That’s really about as much as I can draw from this week. The rest of it, for...
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You Missed It: End of 2013 edition
Choose your weapon and let’s do this. If you’re reading this, congratulations. You’ve survived another year. We made it through a perilous 2013, filled with bad things happening, disappointing movies...
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You Missed It: Benched edition
Brady’s agent allegedly destroying his phone. When I was a kid, my family would go to the beach for the first week of August. It was a great time, but it was also a bit depressing, because part of the...
View ArticleThe pirate life be a turbulent one
Yar! It be hard out there for a pirate! Joining former Grokster exec Wayne Rosso, Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde is abandoning the BitTorrent site he co-founded. In a blog post (truly a most demonic...
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We can’t hear you over our iPhones
Yes, we already had a Headline of the Day, and it was very, very worthy. Let’s just consider the possibility of the Zune ever competing with the Apple iPod line Co-Headline of the Day-worthy....
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You Missed It: Caught in a pickle edition
Sometimes at the end of the week I find it hard to concentrate. But this Friday is harder than most. You see, I was at one of those Windows 7 launch parties last night, and let me tell you, it was...
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A Microsoft product didn’t work?!
In an effort to help people recognize Bing.com as a product from the Microsoft we’ve all grown to know and love, the Web search site was brought down by for a half hour because of a testing error. The...
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