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News in Odd Things on 05/16/2013
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New posts Things that cost the same as coffee with Tim Cook - and are WAY more fun 0 TheRegister Odds and Sods RSS | Source 3 05/16/2013 at 12:53:08

A force of heavily armed au pairs, for instance

A coffee date with Tim Cook has sold for the whopping price of $610,000 to an anonymous bidder.…

New posts Dark blue side of the Force used to quell Star Wars nerd clash 0 TheRegister Odds and Sods RSS | Source 3 05/16/2013 at 07:59:11

Dr Who are you looking at, mate?

It was a conflict that didn't take place in a galaxy far, far away, but a little known corner of Norwich University.…

New posts Acorn founder: SIXTH WAVE of tech will wash away Apple, Intel 0 TheRegister Odds and Sods RSS | Source 4 05/16/2013 at 07:28:10

'Violent event' to finally dethrone dead genius overlord Jobs

Acorn co-founder Hermann Hauser has claimed the world is entering a new "sixth wave" of computing, driven by the arrival of omnipresent computers and machine-learning.…

New posts My god, what's that STENCH belching from your iPhone? 0 TheRegister Odds and Sods RSS | Source 5 05/16/2013 at 05:03:18

I love the smell of freshly squashed pig in the mornin'

A new prototype iPhone peripheral pumps out smells based on user interaction, allowing devs to add an aromatic dimension to games and messaging as long as users keep their reservoir stocked.…

New posts Thousands rally behind teen girl cuffed, expelled in harmless 'explosion' 0 TheRegister Odds and Sods RSS | Source 3 05/02/2013 at 11:18:08

Pop bottle top pop blown out of proportion in Florida

Controversial decisions by officials in Florida to arrest, charge and expel from school a teenage girl (and model student) for causing a totally harmless "explosion" by mixing household products in a plastic bottle are attracting widespread condemnation.…

New posts Google offers Adwords deals - but you can't trust their numbers 0 TheRegister Odds and Sods RSS | Source 3 04/04/2013 at 08:26:11

A load of balls from Mountain View's maths wizards

Google's Adwords platform has always been something of a mystery, to put it mildly - the only certainty about it is that it makes a lot of money for Google - but nobody has caught it out using numbers which are definitely, verifiably untrue.…

New posts Young model ruthlessly fingers upskirt iPad petshop pervert 0 TheRegister Odds and Sods RSS | Source 3 03/21/2013 at 09:29:09

Fruity fondleslab pant-snapper in LinkedIn giveaway

A 22-year-old model used LinkedIn to track down an iPad perv who used the fruity fondleslab to film some upskirt footage of her as she visited a Los Angeles pet shop.…

New posts Refusal to swallow scuppers woman's tadpole-smuggling plan 0 TheRegister Odds and Sods RSS | Source 3 03/21/2013 at 06:02:35

Chinese airport staff unimpressed with gobful of porwigle

A South Korean woman's refusal to swallow scuppered her cunning plan to smuggle tadpoles out of China, Shanghaiist reports.…