A 23-year-old Chinese student in Toronto was chatting with a friend back home in China when an unidentified man broke into her apartment and brutally murdered her…while her friend sat helplessly and witnessed the crime via webcam. I think this …
Swimmingly, according to this piece at MSNBC. Frankly I’m not sure how appealing a 3D skin flick would be – any kind of pornography that requires gear to enjoy seems a bit off-putting. Then again, when you factor in the …
Our favorite despotic dictatorship, North Korea, is now on Twitter. I’m not sure how North Korea plans to use it’s newly found communicative ability, but I can’t wait to hit the ‘Follow’ button. I bet all kinds of crazy Tweets …
Famed animator Hayao Miyazaki is an Old Guy. And you know what that means! He’s old-timey and hates newfangled gadgets, like computers and TV’s. And what does he compare the iPad to? Jerking off! That’s right – to Hayao Miyazaki, …
Another day, another dead Foxconn employee. Except this one didn’t take his own life – unless you consider working for Foxconn itself to be a suicidal act.
Foxconn Employee Dies After 34-Hour Shift
Yes – 34 hours on the clock. …
Wow, if you think you have a hard time hauling your ass into work every day – at least you don’t work at Foxconn International Holdings, Ltd. Things have gotten so bad at the electronics firm (which manufactures iPods and …
Watching this recent iPhone ‘unveiling’ in Vietnam, and reading this subsequent post at Wired about Apple’s obsession with security, it suddenly dawned on me – Steve Jobs is Willy Wonka. All the security measures and secrecy implemented by Apple remind …
I am not in possession of the suicide rates of your typical Chinese tech sweatshop (or, indeed, assembly-line workers anywhere), but eight in five months sounds a bit high to me.
“We regret to see the recurrence of such incidents,” …
I’ll probably never bother with this again, but I’m amused to be posting this on my iPod from the IHOP in Kenwood, Ohio.
Frankly, typing on this thing is a bit of a pain but you do get used to …
Eugene Lin’s hilarious Ignite speech, about the creation of his softcore porn iPhone app peekaboo. Seriously, this is worth 5 minutes of your life. Not so sure about the app.
(via BoingBoing)…
AT&T has placed itself in the dubious position of policing net traffic to 4chan’s infamous /b/ message board. Why they did so is predictable, but I’m amazed on two fronts: one, that they would place themselves in a position …
An engineer working at a factory in Shenzen, China committed suicide last week after a prototype iPhone he was responsible for went missing.…
The Southern Metropolis Daily newspaper said Sun — responsible for sending iPhone prototypes to Apple — noticed
