In today’s world, you have to figure out the right way to sell your product to consumers. Apple goes for the “purity” with their white backgrounds and slightly hip music. Allstate insurance sells you protection from a rampaging maniac. Motorola Mobility sells you lean, mean (red) phones that do unimaginable things to your data plan. Starting …
Sorry guys, I’m a terrible person. I wanted this episode to go up on time for once, but it’s been a hectic week. My apologies. In any case, show notes after the jump. https://friedyoda.com/noisecast/podcast/Episode52.mp3Podcast: Play in new window
Ever wonder if you can make that streamlined, sexy, slim and otherwise not-huge iPhone bigger? Looking for another excuse to show your friends that shiny device that you love so much? Well, you can stop wondering and looking. Tmart.com is offering the pervert special! The “Super Sexy Soft Silicone” iBoob and iBooty cases (which also …
It’s pretty common knowledge by now that the iPhone 4S’s assistant, Siri, only plays nice with native English speakers. And you know what, I completely understand that and I commend Apple and the Siri team for doing such a great in-depth job with the English language when it comes to the robotic personal assistant. I …
Drama unfolded at the Scrabble World Championship in Warsaw, Poland this week as the world’s top Scrabble players battled for the the Scrabble crown and $20,000. With a reputation and 20 G’s to win, you can understand how things could turn vicious if one G goes missing. In a showdown between a Thai player and …
Money. Thievery. Strip searches. Welcome to the Scrabble World Championship Read More »
California, land of the … questionable. Governor Brown has vetoed a bill requiring a warrant to search mobile phones at the time of arrest. Since more and more people live out of their phones, that means more than 160-character text messages; E-mails, Facebook, pictures, location etc (for those who use Blackberrys, your “super secure” BBM …
California Governor vetos bill requiring warrant to search mobile devices Read More »
In the panic that was the first year after September 11th, 2001, a lot of really, REALLY questionable pieces of legislation were passed. Most notably among them is the infamous Patriot Act. The Patriot Act was “designed” to extend the powers of local and federal law enforcement agents to better combat the threat of terrorism. …
Team Sp00ky’s video streaming gear seized under the Patriot Act – Wait wut? Read More »
The image above hides something very unsettling behind the cutesy, saccharine-y sweet manga style animation. Though GalGun seems mostly harmless, Xbox 360 pervs players already know that this is a railgun game with a twist. The object of GalGun is to shoot high school girls with your pheromone gun and basically try to up skirt …
I was expecting something like this out of North Korea instead of South Korea, but what the heck. Scientists in South Korea’s Seoul National University genetically modified a beagle to help aid in their quest to find a cure for Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and other human diseases. What they didn’t expect was for that beagle to …
When you or I splurge it usually involves adding extra cheese or bacon to our sandwich, or buying a more expensive bottle of beer. When billionaires splurge, it usually involves spending insane amounts of money on trivial items that serve only as a symbol of status. So when an unnamed Malaysian businessman spends $4.88 billion …
Neighbors can suck. They’re always blaming you for calling the cops because you tried to kiss their four year old. So the only thing to do is hack into their wireless network and frame them for pedophilia, right? If your name is Barry Ardolf, then sure. Ardolf apparently got offended when the police were called …
Welcome back for another episode of the Noisecast. Today, we have a very short topic list that for some reason we failed to fully cover. I’m not entirely sure why. You’ll have to listen to find out. Pfft! I know I won’t be listening to it. It’s bad enough I have to create this, now …
If someone approaches you on the street and offers to sell you the blueprints to Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II fighter jet at a discount, you might want to think twice before laughing it off as a joke. In fact, you should woo them into thinking that you’re genuinely interested so that they set up …
Not even defense contractors are safe from hackers Read More »
We all know doing hard time sucks. Well, that’s the rumor anyway. I’m the product of a middle class suburban household. Moving on. According to a prisoner from the Jixi labor camp, inmates were “forced” to play video games for hours on end. 12 hours on end, to be precise. Although I find it difficult …
Chinese Labor Camps Prisoners Forced to … level up Read More »
Earlier today, Vodafone New Zealand announced via Twitter that their shipments of Xperia Play devices were stolen. Welllll…turns out that was a big fat lie. Y-you see, it’s actually quite funny! Haha! See, Vodafone just made crap up! Hilarious, right? Yeah! Except. Not really. Vodafone later confirmed with The Australian that the whole thing was …
Vodafone Fakes Losing Their Xperia Play Shipments, Are Jerks, Bad Marketers Read More »
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