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Word on the street is that Apple might be, and likely is, intentionally blocking push notifications on iPhones which have been jailbroken. The developers of the application Push-based reminder app NotifyMe have been getting an enormous amount of complaints from their 5% customer base which has hacked the iPhone in someway. As it turns out, NotifyMe figured out that the ...

I grew up with the Peanuts, even if they were way before my time. My dad had all of his old Charlie Brown comic strip books and I read through all of them hundreds of times. So, I was sort of well acquainted with Charlie Brown as a kid. Tim O’Brien’s untooned Charlie Brown shows what the wishy-washiest bald kid ...

A German prisoner had a score to settle, but he realized there was no way to hide a weapon unless he could devise some sort of evil plan. So, with little other option, the German criminal created a hallowed-out wooden cross with an attached shiv. Though the plan seemed fool-proof, the German prisoner must have been a world-class fool. His ...

Some taxidermists can really go over the top with their mounted pieces. And a few, I believe are certifiably insane. “WTF Taxidermy” is a LiveJournal community dedicated to the most bizarre of bizarre taxidermy. Included are such classics as the Flying Jackalope, the R2-D2 Rats and really, just a whole crap load of oddities. The best part is that most ...

A few weeks back we wrote about a company which printed personalized Twitter stickers for spreading the word about your Twitter URL. The awesome dudes who run StickyTwits are giving away two of their 30 sticker packages to two lucky Gearfuse readers. To win, all you have to do is either comment on this post or post a tweet with ...

I might attest to being quite the hardcore geek, but never have I taken up a project like this and I doubt I ever will. This group of charitable gamers plans to play every single Mario-inspired video game, including Galaxy and 64, in their entirety. In fact, they even plan on playing Galaxy all the way through with Luigi as ...

Here is the developer preview of the second circle of hell, Lust, from the upcoming Dante’s Inferno video game by EA. Disturbing, visceral, dark, tormenting and, most importantly, awesome. All words which describe what we can see from the game. The devs decided not to go overly smutty, considering the subject of Lust, though instead delve into the dark torment ...

No, not “pop,” you friggen mid-westerners. SODA! This dragon was made entirely out of SODA, yes, SODA can pull tabs. Measuring 14 inches long and 8 inches tall, the Soda Can Pull Tab Dragon was produced by gluing an undisclosed number of pull tabs to each other with standard epoxy. The creator of the dragon named it shinkonryuu, and its ...

I’m not sure how comfortable you would be using a hair comb adorned with a taxidermy guinea pig. On one hand, these taxidermy rodent accessories are unique, not as dirty as living rodents and won’t leave a trail of rice sized turds. And on the other hand, it’s a fucking dead rodent. And these particular rodents aren’t even cute compared ...

Everybody already knows that Chuck Norris is likely the most powerful man in the universe. The Chuck Norris facts illustrate that quite well. Even superheroes like Mario sometimes stand aside to let Chuck Norris do their dirty work. Watch Chuck blast through an army of Goombas. They never had a chance. Link