Hasta La Gadget!

During its press conference at this year’s CES, Samsung made little bones about its vendetta against the bezel. The company bragged about how its forthcoming D8000 HDTV has virtually no border, going so far as removing a fake bezel from the top of the television and then holding a pencil to the set’s side, to show just how razor thin the actually bezel is.

Also, Samberg. That last one’s not really that weird, though–he’s actually on the show. You’ve got to hand it to Mark Zuckerberg, he’s a pretty good sport, appearing on this weekend’s Saturday Night Live, alongside Jesse Eisenberg, who played a decidedly unflattering–but Academy Award nominated–version of the kid billionaire in last year’s The Social Network.

Samberg and Eisenberg both showed off their versions of the Facebook founder. Eisenberg: “I speak in short, clipped sentences and keep my head very still.” Samberg: “I wear this sweatshirt.” Zuckerberg joined the two on stage for an encounter Samberg (on script) called, “Awkberg.”

And yes, yes it was. For all of us. It wasn’t one of those “hey, look what they did” monologues, not one of the especially hilarious variety. Zuckerberg, let’s be honest, has the acting chops and comedic timing of fellow billionaire Steve Forbes. But that’s not the point. The point is, the guy’s a good sport. Also, he invented poking.

Video after the jump.

Keith Sharp is the 55-year-old mayor of a city in eastern England. He’s been a health adviser for the past decade and a half. He’s spent $3,000 on a 3D HD TV and $175 on 3D glasses. All the guy wanted to do was rent a copy of Piranha 3D and spend a quiet, bloodsplattered night at home.

An employee at the local Blockbuster video thought otherwise, telling Sharp that he couldn’t rent the film. The ailing movie rental chain has a policy against renting out 3D, offer hygiene concerns. Apparently the policy was misinterpreted by an employee, who thought it extended to 3D films (why the store would carry a bunch of movies it couldn’t rent is beyond us, of course), barring Sharp from going home with the comedy-horror flick.

“It’s absolutely stupid,” Sharp said, apparently distraught by the whole run in. “It’s one of those over-the-top health and safety issues I’m sick and tired of. Things like renting a DVD should be common sense. I’ve come across idiotic health and safety people in my time, and this is up there with the worst of them.”

Blockbuster apologized for the apparent mix up, telling the press, “Staff have been trained on our strategy-but unfortunately, in this case, they provided the wrong information to the customer.”

How do you get a stolen flat screen TV out of a car wash? Simple–hide it under your shirt. That’s apparently exactly what a robber didn’t after pulling a 27-inch TV off the wall of the Prestige Car Wash and Gas Station men’s bathroom.

That’s not even the weird part of the story–that came latter.

No one actually caught the man in the act, but the car wash’s manager Nicole Telles reviewed surveillance tape to find that the man who committed the crime had paid with a credit card just before (literally) ripping the business off.

Telles got his name from the car and, naturally, added him on Facebook. “He accepted me, so I went through all his pictures, made sure it was him.” Telles’s boss then sent the man a note, saying that, if he returned the TV, the car wash wouldn’t call the police.

“He ended up deleting me, so then we thought to ourselves that the kid doesn’t want to give it up,” she added. Eventually Telles and her boss turned the evidence over to the cops, who promptly arrested the suspect.