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Dish Network buys Blockbuster

Apr 6, 2011
Dish Networks is spending $228 million in cash for the assets of the once mighty home video chain. You know Blockbuster right? Eerily empty place...

Cloud Girlfriend

Mar 25, 2011
This is from the O Internet What Hath Thou Wrought file. A new startup called Cloud Girlfriend wants to help people get girlfriends. How? It's like...

Twitter harvesting the Charlie Sheen Crazy Dollars

Mar 4, 2011
Check this out. So Charlie Sheen goes nuts and starts talking about how he's "winning". Uses the term a lot. And it's hilarious because he's having...

#Tigerblood #Winning #PublicNervousBreakdown

Mar 2, 2011
Whether you think the whole Charlie Sheen thing is a delightful bit of comedic gawking or whether you think it's a depressing spectacle as the...

Facebook app helps you break up couples

Feb 28, 2011
Let's say you really like someone and want to date them but they're with someone else. And let's also say you're a horrible uncaring monster of a...

Use your Amex card, get a make believe cow

Nov 30, 2010
Is this even a technology story? I don't know. Whenever Zynga and Farmville and make believe cows get involved, I get all dizzy and disoriented. So...

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It's here: social media for toddlers

Nov 29, 2010
Researchers have figured out a way to get kids more connected. They've turned an ordinary shape sorter box into a communication device called an...

Robot sports reporter

Nov 29, 2010
But how does he get grotesquely overweight and suck up to spoiled athletes if he's a robot? I'm sure they're working on that....