Archive for August 24th, 2006

Dude, you’re not getting a Dell or an Apple, because BATTERIES A-SPLODEY!!
…Well, A-OVERHEATEY, actually. But A-SPLODEY sounds more dramatic.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Apple is recalling 1.8 million battery packs for its iBook and PowerBook notebook computers because of an overheating problem, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced Thursday.
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Apple consumers with affected products should stop [...]

The FDA has ruled that women (and men) over the age of 18 can buy the emergency contraceptive Plan B over-the-counter. Minors will still need a prescription, but now they can bypass the doctor’s visit and the asshole pro-forced-birth pharmacist by having a parent or older sibling or friend get the pills for them. It [...]

House Season 2 was released on DVD on Tuesday, and the people who are lucky enough to have it already have been nice enough to put up the blooper reel on YouTube. Apparently they all have a lot of trouble with those big fancy medical words.

Pluto has been demoted from “planet” to “dwarf planet” after some discussion of expanding the definition of “planet” to include Ceres, Charon, and 2003 UB313. Today, they decided against it and demoted Pluto instead.
This decision will come as a blow to schoolchildren around the world, who will have to memorize a new mnemonic device, and [...]