The Mobile Podcast had the pleasure of beating us to chatting about the Lumia 1020, but that didn’t deter us. Aside from that taking up half of this week’s episode, we’ll discuss the new plans from AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile and the HTC One mini. Get to streaming below, because this one‘s dedicated to Tim Stevens.
Hosts: Peter Rojas, Brian Heater, Terrence O’Brien
Producer: Joe Pollicino (akaTRENT)
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Out, damned raccoon.
(Credit: Kevin Rose/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
I know that in certain parts of the world they enjoy throwing short people in bars. As sport, you understand.
But until Saturday, I had never seen anyone tossing a raccoon. Especially for a good cause.
However, Kevin Rose — the man who founded Digg and is currently, I imagine, very happy — posted a video of himself picking up a raccoon and throwing it from the staircase of his home.
This, I should add, was not for sport, but to protect his Toaster.
Toaster is his dog — or, perhaps, his dogg.
In the video, Rose explains this all happened at one in the morning and that the raccoon was attacking his dog. He added that he doesn’t encourage animal violence.
However, if your Toaster is being attacked by a bandit-faced wild creature, you take the matter into your own hands. (And many posters on Reddit seem to be on Rose’s side.)
My own experience with raccoons is that they are as brazen as they are entirely in love with knocking garbage cans over to rummage inside. They leave a mess. And they’ll glance at you with an “oh, piss off” look as they’re doing it.
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Man of Steel director Zack Snyder just came out and rocked our worlds at Comic-Con. Not just announcing that Batman will be in the Superman sequel — which he did with a cool-looking metallic Superman-Batman logo that drove the crowd nuts. But that was not the biggest deal.
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Comixology has added Scholastic titles like the Magic Pickle at Comic-Con 2013.
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SAN DIEGO — It’s not always that the plucky kid in the cape and domino mask can save the day, but digital comics are here to stay, say American comic book publishers.
In a recession-defying feat, the comics business rebounded from a catastrophic downward sales spiral when DC Entertainment, the home of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, rebooted its superhero universe in 2011. A key component of the reboot was to begin publishing all its titles “day-and-date” digitally, meaning that they would be sold online at the same time and for the same price as they were in retail stores.
Two years on, print comics are celebrating their best industry-wide sales in a decade, and digital comics have established themselves as a small but complementary force.
“The triple digit growth slope’s not as steep as when we launched,” said Jim Lee, co-publisher of DC Entertainment, “but we’re having tremendous success with books like the Injustice game tie-in.”
Reported sales numbers back up that assertion. Comics sales in print through June 2013 are up 13 percent over last year at this point, acco… [Read more]
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What could be a better use of Photoshop filters than filtering Photoshop? That’s exactly what Device did in this delightfully meta little Photoshop tribute. Warning: you might want to turn down your volume a bit.
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Protect your feet from LEGOs and the other hazards of a toy-filled home with one of ThinkGeek’s newest items, the Building Brick Slippers. Sure, you can build your own slippers from actual LEGO, but those wouldn’t be as comfortable as ThinkGeek’s footwear.
As you’ll see in the video below, the soles of the slippers even look like the bottom of LEGO bricks:
Build a browser window and head to ThinkGeek to buy the slippers. They’re available in red or blue and cost $25 (USD). Sadly they only come in one size, which is a shame because these would’ve made great gifts for kids.
BAGHDAD — A coordinated wave of car bombings tore through commercial streets in Baghdad on Saturday night, killing more than 30 and wounding dozens as insurgents kept up a relentless offensive during the holy month of Ramadan.
The blasts struck in Shiite Muslim areas of the Iraqi capital. Although there was no claim of responsibility, coordinated bombings against Shiites are a favorite tactic of al-Qaida’s Iraq branch.
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Below is a first look at Mythbusters taking on AMC’s Breaking Bad. The long-running Discovery Channel series will put some plot mechanics from acclaimed drama to the test, along with some help from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan and star Aaron Paul.
BEIRUT — Syrian government forces bombed a strategic rebel town in the country’s north for the third straight day Saturday, pounding it with airstrikes that killed at least five people, activists said.
President Bashar Assad’s troops in recent weeks have seized the momentum in the civil war, now in its third year. Regime forces have been on offensive against rebels on several fronts, including in the northern Idlib province along the border with Turkey.
From 24/7 Wall St.: For the second year in a row, 24/7 Wall St. has identified America’s worst companies to work for. While company management can improve employee satisfaction, most of the companies on our list continue to make workers miserable.
In order to identify America’s worst companies to work for, 24/7 Wall St. examined employee reviews at jobs and career community site Glassdoor. Based on the reviews, Glassdoor scores companies on a scale of one to five with an average score of 3.2 for the over 250,000 companies measured. 24/7 Wall St. identified the nine publicly traded companies that received scores of 2.5 or lower.
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