Last year Apple launched yet another overpriced product. This product has since sold millions of units and is extremely popular in the United States. Earlier this year the iPhone got a revision that improved on the existing feature set of the original model. I will explain why the new model, the iPhone 3G, is BS.

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Electronic Arts is well known in the videogame industry and its followers for doing many things wrong, unethical and at times just plain stupid. Their latest blockbuster game Spore hit store shelves last week as many people turned to alternative sources to acquire the game in record numbers. While this is expected for a release of this caliber, the reason why many people are not buying the game at retailers is a little different - DRM.

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Modern life involves interacting with a broad range of mobile, portable devices. Many of us carry cell phones, laptops and mp3 players around on a daily basis. Often these devices will run out of battery power before they make it back to the chargers - and that’s BS.

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Christmas came early for AIG today as the Federal Reserve announced it was going to provide an 85 billion dollar 2 year loan to keep the global investment firm afloat. Apparently it takes that much money to prevent an event worse shitstorm from occuring.

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What a crazy day - at 8 in the morning the first thing I see in the news is that Lehman Bros. had plummeted to $3.50 and that the Dow fell 384 points… before trading even began.

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In the world of journalism, there are different kinds of people - those who report the news the way it is, and those who cause news to happen. A part of the latter movement is what we know as the paparazzi. These people will do anything to take pictures of famous people and celebreties (famous people) in situations that would publicly humiliate them. Kanye West wouldn’t have any of that.

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Robert Delaware. Sound familiar? Well, If you read the news on the internet it should. Delaware was fired after commenting on the defects of the Xbox 360 for a VentureBeat article.

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We live in an economy where low prices for just about any kind of product are available to us. Most things previously thought too expensive for the common folk are now typical household items. But in an age of near instant communication a relic of the past still clings to the sales of today. This relic is the practice of the mail-in rebate and I’m going to tell you why such rebates are bullshit.

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You know what really grinds my gears? Retail sales. There is always at least one customer that gets under your skin and ruins your whole day. Don’t get me wrong - a job is a job, but there are just some things that kill everything.

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We’ve seen it all on our daily commutes - musicians, protestors, crazy people. But there is one bunch of people who get on my nerves and that is beggars in the subway and you’re about to read why they are bullshit. Oh and I couldn’t find any pictures of subway beggars because people really don’t give a shit about them…

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