Horror Archive

  • iPhone 4’s screen may be tough, but don’t think that it’s shatter proof

    iPhone 4’s screen may be tough, but don’t think that it’s shatter proof

    Posted on June 10, 2010 | No Comments
    I'm sure we all know at least 2 or 3 people that have accidentally dropped their iPhone and watched in horror as the screen shattered into so many tiny pieces. It may have even happened to you. So, I'm sure you were pleased when Apple showed off how tough the new screen on the upcoming iPhone 4 was. I mean, they bent it like 30 degrees, fer cryin' out loud! That's like a million more degrees than the previous screen could bend, right? But what they didn't show you was how it handled being dropped from waist height onto the ground. Three times. It took iFix your i to do that, and I've got some bad news: it didn't survive.

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  • Gasp! AT&T stops selling the iPhone 3G because they’re “Out Of Stock”

    Gasp! AT&T stops selling the iPhone 3G because they’re “Out Of Stock”

    Posted on June 4, 2010 | No Comments
    The horror! Days after the Apple Store pulled sales of the iPhone 3G from their online market, AT&T has disclosed to employees the iPhone 3G is now "Out of Stock". Employees are being told to direct customers to the iPhone 3GS. The fact that Apple's WWDC, the birth place of all new iPhones, goes down in 3 days is, of course, a complete coincidence.

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  • The Olympus PEN E-P2 now comes in silver

    The Olympus PEN E-P2 now comes in silver

    Posted on May 7, 2010 | No Comments
    If you’ve been living your life in an endless nightmare of pain, confusion, and horror, your prayers have been answered: the Olympus PEN E-P2 now comes in silver. Hamburg, 6 May 2010 – Next week the E-P2, until now only cloaked in classic black, will also be available in silver. The camera unites the power and [...]

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  • The latest movie franchise to be rebooted? Mortal Kombat. Yikes.

    The latest movie franchise to be rebooted? Mortal Kombat. Yikes.

    Posted on January 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Does the world need another Mortal Kombat movie? No, probably not, but that won't stop Hollywood from attempting to exploit a license that was last hot in 1994. Word on the street is that Warner Bros. wants to, yes, “reboot” the series. (Note: You cannot reboot a dead computer, so I don't know if it's possible to reboot a dead movie franchise.) To that end it has hired Oren Uziel to write the script. You've probably never heard of Uziel, but he wrote Shimmer Lake. You've probably never heard of that, either.

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  • Six pound Swedish Fish proves boy’s love for his sister

    Six pound Swedish Fish proves boy’s love for his sister

    Posted on September 2, 2009 | No Comments
    First there was the crazy five pound gummy bear and now we find something considerably grosser. Our own Weatherman, commenter extraordinaire, created - wait for it - a huge, disgusting Swedish Fish. Good lord. He describes it thus: I thought you’d appreciate these pics of a 6lb Swedish Fish that I made about a year ago for [...]

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  • Brute forcing success: load any operating system onto your TI-83+ calculator

    Brute forcing success: load any operating system onto your TI-83+ calculator

    Posted on August 17, 2009 | No Comments
    ti-gameIt's been a very long time since I last used a Texas Instruments graphing calculator. I thought it was cool to write programs on the TI-80 I used in college. It seems that in the time since, things have gotten a little more complex: TI calculators now have cryptographically signed operating systems! Ostensibly this is to prevent clever hackers from loading their own operating systems onto the calculators (the horror!). Leave it to the hackers, though, to find a way to do what they want!

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  • The joys of playing Street Fighter with your kids (and the devastation of losing)

    The joys of playing Street Fighter with your kids (and the devastation of losing)

    Posted on August 13, 2009 | No Comments
    A truly delightful tale about a parent playing against his six-year-old son in Street Fighter IV. A great father-son bonding moment, the father recoils in horror as he finds out, “Wait a minute, I'm losing to my six-year-old here. Oh, God, what have I done?”

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  • Wedge-Shaped Toe Clips for Barefoot Cyclists?

    Wedge-Shaped Toe Clips for Barefoot Cyclists?

    Posted on July 3, 2009 | No Comments
    Could this be the answer to riding a fixed-gear bike with (horror!) flip-flops? I have been “palping” a fixed for a few months now but in the summer heat, the need for regular shoes to fit in the toe-clips keeps me on my Dutch city bike where I can cruise in a pair of Havaianas. These [...]

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