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Gizmodo just can’t stop themselves when it comes to iPhone/Apple hating. OK the new iPhone is made out of glass. Yep it will probably break if you drop it enough times. What does this tell you? Look after your phone dumbass, or buy one of these pig ugly indestructible phones. You know, the kind that you wouldn’t dream of stealing before they actually came out.

The iPhone is made of aluminosilicate glass. Apple says it’s “chemically strengthened to be 20 times stiffer and 30 times harder than plastic” and it’s “ultradurable and more scratch resistant than ever.” Well, not enough to survive a 3.5-foot drop.

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Never mind… I can’t be bothered to write anything original so I’m just going to “reimagine” someone else’s article

This just in: he’s probably the only one.

John Travolta is excited about possibly starring in a remake of the classic ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’ with buddy Tom Cruise. “Someone came up with a good idea – it was a remake of ‘Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid’ – and there was a rumor that we were gonna do that, and I said to Tom, ‘It’s not a terrible rumor, it’s not a bad idea,’” the ‘Grease’ star said.

The original is one of those untouchable movies, in my opinion. But maybe…MAYBE…ten years ago or so they coulda pulled it off. Now? Who wants to see chubby Travolta in his hairpiece running around in tight Western clothes? And also…

Sigh. I don’t have the energy anymore. Fuck it, let’s just remake everything OK? No more original movies. Cancel the “Star Trek” sequel. Start at the top, with the “Chaplin” movies, and end with the last official 2009 release, whatever that is. If you can’t beat ‘em, join them.

Source: Popeater

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This wins the MFUTIST award. Apple I love your products but I’m afraid that you are going to have to get over yourself or employ people that understand the difference between enforcing the letter of a rule and the spirit of a rule. I’m guessing that the App Store rules were set out to prevent developer from submitting porn and other such “objectionable content” not to censor the English language. Even M$ wouldn’t do that…

Two years ago I linked to a web site called Ninjawords — a fast, simple online dictionary backed by a good data source (Wiktionary).

The developers behind Ninjawords, Matchstick Software, have released an iPhone version, currently available from the App Store for just $2. Here’s how they describe it:

Ninjas are three things:

They’re smart
They’re quick
They’re deadly accurate
Ninjawords is a dictionary for the iPhone built on these principles. We made it because we saw that the low-cost dictionaries on the App Store are slow, cluttered, and all use the same bad data source (WordNet) for their definitions.

Ninjawords takes a different approach. We use awesome, fresh, high quality data with more words and synonyms than you can throw a ninja star at. And best of all, when you look up your words, they all stay on the page. No need to flip back and forth between different pages as you look up multiple words.

It’s a terrific app — pretty much exactly what I’ve always wanted in an iPhone dictionary, and, yes, with both a better user experience and better dictionary content than the other low-cost dictionaries in the App Store.

But Ninjawords for iPhone suffers one humiliating flaw: it omits all the words deemed “objectionable” by Apple’s App Store reviewers, despite the fact that Ninjawords carries a 17+ rating.

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Hollywood is emotionally, morally, spiritually and creatively bankrupt. Make a fucking original film for the sake of fucking fuck.

Steven Spielberg will direct as his next film a contemporary adaptation of Mary Chase’s Pulitzer Prize winning play “Harvey,” a co-production between Twentieth Century Fox and DreamWorks Studios. The announcement was made today by Fox Chairmen Jim Gianopulos and Tom Rothman and DreamWorks partners Stacey Snider and Spielberg.

Harvey is the first screenplay by the best-selling novelist Jonathan Tropper.

The film will be produced by Spielberg and Don Gregory, with Elizabeth Gabler and Carla Hacken overseeing the project for Fox 2000, which acquired the rights to the original play in 2008.

“I am very happy to be working again with my friend Tom Rothman who shepherded us through ‘Minority Report,’ and with Elizabeth and Carla, who I’m looking forward to… [From Some Kind of Kindness from the album “The Golden Hour” by Firewater

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Not every day do I get the chance to call a post “Street Urinal”, it was too good an opportunity to pass up. Anyway I was flicking though my newsfeed and found this. Could do with some of those in Amsterdam. Oh wait there are some, they are just fugly.

Street Urinal Makes Public Peeing Practical

By Charlie Sorrel July 31, 2009

This is the Axixa, and here in Barcelona, we need it. The ceramic, water-stain shaped device is a public urinal. It even comes in pee-yellow.

Public urination is a big problem in my hometown: hordes of drunken tourists, all filled up with nowhere to go. Bars won’t let you use the restrooms unless you are a customer, there are almost no public toilets (a few porta-potties at the beach is about the size of it), and because the locals have some taste, there aren’t even many branches of McDonald’s, the default public bathroom for much of the world.

The Axixa is a design by Mexican Miguel Melgarejo, and could be deployed cheaply and easily on any city wall. Inside there is a traditional U-bend water trap leading to a drainage pipe. The outside could actually be any shape, but a yellow streak of piss [From

The artiest toilets in the country?
By Sarah Dobbs | 30 July 2009

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Way back in issue 1 of Wired, we featured some of Felice Varini’s work: he’s the artist who paints geometric patterns across buildings in such a way that the design is only fully visible from one point – from everywhere else, it looks like a random assortment of lines.

Well, we’ve just discovered there’s one of his works here in London: the women’s toilets in the Victoria & Albert Museum host a Varini piece called Six Circles in Disorder. The amenities were redesigned at the beginning of this year by Glowacka Rennie Architects [From The most fucked up thing I saw today

So there is news that they are going to remake Alien

I have absolutely nothing to say except….

Read all about it here: SFX: the leading science fiction, fantasy and horror magazine.

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Since when was giving kids guns and training them how to use them such a bright idea? I mean if you Google “children with guns” then you come up with either images of 9 year olds who are enlisted in some African or Asian para-military organisation or articles on what a bad idea it is for kids to have guns.

However, it seems that the Boy Scouts of America are training young lads and lasses to combat “terrorism” and patrol American borders. This wins the newly instated “most fucked up thing I saw today award”.

The responding officers — eight teenage boys and girls, the youngest 14 — face tripwire, a thin cloud of poisonous gas and loud shots — BAM! BAM! — fired from behind a flimsy wall. They move quickly, pellet guns drawn and masks affixed.

“United States Border Patrol! Put your hands up!” screams one in a voice cracking with adolescent determination as the suspect is subdued.

via Explorer-Scouts Train in Post-9/11 Law Enforcement Methods – NYTimes.com.

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