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I cracked my iPhone 3G this morning so I’m busy playing with jailbroken apps. What’s your excuse? Nokia is working on a netbook Toshiba’s latest external hard drives It’s called a concept car for a reason Curb stomp your potatoes Actually, I unlocked my 3G today with redsn0w Epic fireworks Have great links you want showcased on Afternoon Linkage? E-mail ...

Why do things like this need to be created? It’s a gadget from the dreams of your 6-year-old sister. Just look at that pose. This is one Gundam in dire need of a tea party, followed promptly by an ass whooping. If you’re a girl and you ask your Grandma for a Gundam for Christmas, guaranteed you’d get something like ...

Remember in school when you’d waste time by trying to make funny words with your calculator (lol, “boobs”)? We’ve grown up. We’re way past the days of trying to make naughty words on our tools of arithmetic. These days, we’ve turned to our Mac OS X docks for our creative word challenges. Check out some more words after the jump ...

They couldn’t come from more opposite worlds. The cutesy glit-and-glam of the ultra-girly universe of Hello Kitty and the science-fictiony universe of� Star Wars. What draws them closer together is the obsessive nature of their biggest fans. If you happen to be a fan of both Hello Kitty and Star Wars (we realize that people who enjoy both are few ...

Lately, I’ve been playing my PS3 quite a bit. But aside from UFC 2009: Unleashed, I haven’t been playing titles built for the system. No, I’ve been dropping $5 or $10 here and there and replaying classic PSOne titles. For $9.99, you can download games like Resident Evil: Director’s Cut and Final Fantasy VII and play them in all their ...

Normally, when you think of Vizio, you think of decent plasma and LCD television sets that cost about half the price of a Sony BRAVIA. Now there’s even more incentive to run out and buy a Vizio: web apps. The company announced that it’ll be bringing Facebook, Twitter and plenty of others to its new line of Vizio XVT HDTVs. ...

I know, I know. Taco trucks rule. You don’t have to thank me. Thank @likeomg on Twitter. There’s seven different models to print out and fold up on Goopymart’s Flickr page. Too bad you can’t print out miniature tacos and empanadas to go along with the trucks. Link (Thanks, @likeomg)

Oh boy. This chart is just TOO GOOD not to post. It shows how long it took Apple to roll out 50,000 applications on its App Store (about 10 months) and compares that to Palm’s turtle-esque growth. After more than ten years, the Palm OS (not to be confused with the Pre’s WebOS) had only ~29,000 apps. What does that ...

Look, I love Apple as much as the next guy does, but this is ridiculous. The press and bloggers are becoming rabid paparazzi as they demand to know every detail about Steve Jobs’ life. I mean look as this shit on Techmeme. Is this seriously the biggest news out there? That a hospital tried to keep the identity of one ...

Right around the time Windows Vista came out, Microsoft was engaged in a PR campaign where they would give a blogger an Acer laptop loaded with Vista (see above picture) and not ask for it back. Free laptops mean good reviews, right? The whole thing blew up in Microsoft’s face, so in mid-2009, you’d think it’d learn its lesson, right? ...