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News in Odd Things on 05/24/2013
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New posts Lego X-wing fighter touches down in New York's Times Square 0 TheRegister Odds and Sods RSS | Source 8 05/25/2013 at 01:23:26

Biggest-ever brick model to plug Disney show

Danish toymeister Lego has unveiled the largest model yet using its eponymous plastic chunks: a 43ft (13.1 meters) X-wing fighter that's a claimed 1:1 scale replica of George Lucas' Death Star destroyer, and is 42 times the size of the same kit that Lego offers to children (old and young).…

New posts Curse you, old person, for inventing computers! 0 TheRegister Odds and Sods RSS | Source 11 05/24/2013 at 11:24:06

Too sexy for my (night)shirt

Something for the Weekend, Sir? Since being allowed back into public places without causing the skin of those nearby to melt or for Jurassic sealife to shuffle out of the Pacific and sneeze fire at Tokyo Tower, Half Life Wife has enjoyed several evenings out at the theatre with yours truly.…

New posts Paul Allen buys lovingly restored vintage V-2 Nazi ballistic missile 0 TheRegister Odds and Sods RSS | Source 10 05/24/2013 at 11:59:48

First space rocket of humanity, used to bomb London

Ex-Microsoft gazillionaire Paul Allen has acquired a V2 rocket for his Flying Heritage Collection.…

New posts 'Google IS a capitalist country... er, company' 0 TheRegister Odds and Sods RSS | Source 9 05/24/2013 at 08:27:47

Plus: 'Apple execs, I apologise for this theatre of the absurd'

Quotw This was the week when the tax row shifted into high gear, with politicos on both sides of the pond railing at Google and Apple, while respective chiefs Eric Schmidt and Tim Cook presented defences that amounted to yelling "If you don't like it, you fix it" and running away.…

New posts 'Liberator': Proof that you CAN'T make a working gun in a 3D printer 0 TheRegister Odds and Sods RSS | Source 4 05/10/2013 at 15:34:04

No need to pry this piece of crap out of my fingers

Comment People are missing one important point about the "Liberator" 3D-printed "plastic gun": it isn't any more a gun than any other very short piece of plastic pipe is a "gun".…

New posts 'Your infernal cable pipes come up from Hell, Virgin!' 0 TheRegister Odds and Sods RSS | Source 11 04/26/2013 at 10:04:27

Plus: 'I suspect some DDoS skid on his Mum's Windows box'

Quotw This was the week when Virgin Media was forced to grovel publicly after a deceased man's family posted the firm's demand for a £10 "late payment" when his direct debit was denied because of his death.…

New posts I salute Lady THATCHER - Shoreditch's SILICON GODMOTHER 0 TheRegister Odds and Sods RSS | Source 7 04/12/2013 at 11:44:02
¡Bong! Investor Steve directs the baroness's funeral
New posts ... time machine. Iranian Dr Who claims he invented a ... 0 TheRegister Odds and Sods RSS | Source 8 04/12/2013 at 01:11:01

State media pulls report on PC-sized box with powers to see the future

Not content with letting North Korea get all the “we're sooooo bad” headlines this week, fellow rogue nation Iran has let it be known one of its resident boffins has invented a time machine. And then deleted the story in state-run media that brought the world news of the gadget.…

New posts 'I've read all the Harry Potters - and I'm proud to have done so for adverts' 0 TheRegister Odds and Sods RSS | Source 6 03/29/2013 at 10:10:12

'After they gave me $millions, I discovered Yahoo! has an inspirational goal'

QuotW This was the week when Stephen Fry didn't get upset with The Register, he just called everyone at Vulture Central "cruel and vicious".…