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Apple excels at taking existing concepts – computers, MP3 players, conceit – and carefully streamlining them into glistening ergonomic chunks of concentrated aspiration.
›› Charlie Brooker ruminates over the iPad
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The rehabilitation of the beleaguered Large Hadron Collider was on hold tonight after the failure of one of its powerful cooling units caused by an errant chunk of baguette.
›› Yet another anti-miracle for the LHC
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Stuff like Fake AP Stylebook is about the only times I hang out on Twitter. (Also see Shit My Dad Says and the cruel but now inactive Stevie Wonder Tweets.)
[Via Wired]
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When you’re young, anyone a decade older or more can seem like a gauche joke, tragically unaware of their own crashing irrelevance. They’re either hopelessly out-of-touch (LOL! He’s never heard of Lady Gaga!), embarrassingly immature (Ugh! He listens to Lady Gaga!) or hovering awkwardly in-between (Pff! He uses Lady Gaga as a catch-all reference for youth!).
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