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...after 24 hours of actually testing the new BlackBerry side by side with its main competition - Apple's iPhone 3G and T-Mobile's G1 (the "Google phone") - the novelty quickly wore off. I hate the click screen, and none of the handful of people I let try it had anything nice to say about it either. That's a shame because the Storm has a slew of handy extras that neither the iPhone nor the G1 can match. But an annoying user interface is a deal breaker. (See pictures of the cell phone's history...
...days, Toyota is offering a very attractive zero-percent financing rate on a dozen of its models. The 30-second commercial touting the program, which is saturating televised sporting events and other prime-time TV, has left viewers vitriolic. In the ad, a giant red zero moves around the screen while a sedated-sounding man hauntingly drones the line "Saved by zero" - financing, get it? - over and over. The jingle is actually a re-recording of a 1980s song of the same name by British new-wave band the Fixx. "It's right at that border where it's catchy...
...behalf of my non-Facebook boyfriend who screams in agony whenever this commercial starts," wrote one commenter. "I have two ice picks that I keep by the couch to jab into my ears when it comes on," wrote another. "Helps." A clever YouTube user spliced "Saved by Zero" screen grabs into the trailer for The Ring, a horror film. The plot: if you see the commercial, you die. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
Smith’s use of a projector screen that occupied the spot in the room normally reserved for Faust took some ribbing from Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes...
...soon as I see the screen up, I know we’re in for obfuscation,” Gomes said. “It’s never helped anybody, and it certainly didn’t help the dean today...