Joey Chestnut has reclaimed the top spot as winner of the annual hot dog eating contest in Coney Island after first tying with archrival Takeru Kobayashi in a 10-minute chow-down and then beating him in a five-dog eat-off.The men tied at 59 frankfurters in 10 minutes, before being made to gobble another five dogs in a last-minute tiebreaker.
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June 27th 2008 marks the day that Bill Gates steps out of his role as nerd-baron and into the shoes of full-blown immortal philanthropist. Thank You!
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Toshiba just made a statements saying, “It will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders.”
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In what can only be classified as yet another crushing blow to the embattled HD DVD camp, rent-by-mail giant Netflix has just announced its intention to only stock Blu-ray titles in the future…
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My winners for the best commericals during yesterday’s Super Bowl goes to E-Trade with the talking baby. Runners up go to Bud Light and Coke.
E-Trade Super Bowl Commercial w/ baby
E-Trade Super Bowl Commercial w/ baby and clown
American Idol- Renaldo Lapuz Audition
From watching the trailer it looks like this is going to be a great season of Lost. It’s too bad the writers strike means there will only be 8 episodes. Hopefully the strike will be resolved in time to save the rest of the season.
Folgers Commercial - 1986
Talk about childhood memories. Every year after Thanksgiving I would wait to see this commerical on TV. Always made it feel like Christmas time.
The Florida Marlins have traded all stars Miguel Cabrera and Dontrelle Willis to the Detroit Tigers for six players including two top tier prospects!
Wow, shocking news from the poker world today. Chip Reese, one of the best high-stakes cash game poker players, died at the age of 56.
According to Card Player, Reese was admitted to a hospital last night with symptoms of pneumonia and passed away in his sleep.
He will be missed by the poker community.
The HD DVD version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will have a new feature called “community screening.” You can watch a movie simultaneously with your friends while you’re each at your own place. You can also chat via the remote.
Finally, after what seemed an interminable wait, Microsoft was ready to let us in on the big picture. Joystiq spoke with Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg about the Fall update and what was still in store — DivX and Xvid support, reduced prices on XBLA “Hits” and more.
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Joey Chestnut, who has already triumphed at a famous hot dog eating contest swallowed 103 small hamburgers in 8 minutes Sunday to take home $10,000.
“Google-powered phones will come already configured with a bundle of the most popular Google services, such Google search, Google Maps, YouTube and Gmail. But that would just be the beginning…”
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A South Carolina inmate notorious for filing frivolous and fanciful lawsuits against public figures has used his latest complaint to accuse Apple chief executive Steve Jobs of employing O.J. Simpson as a “hitman” for the past two decades, in addition a litany of other outlandish offenses.
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So much for building a sufficient infrastructure. It appears that several parts of Xbox Live are failing due to quantity of Halo 3 players. Right now less than 1000 players listed as being online in Halo 3. There were more online over weekend before official launch.
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Amazon has launched the public beta of its new digital music portal called Amazon MP3, which will feature two million songs from 180,000 artists and 20,000 labels, all without DRM. Separate songs will sell for $.89 or $.99 and albums will range in cost from $5.99 to $9.99, with the best selling albums coming in at $8.99.
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Genial comic Drew Carey was tapped Monday to replace silver-haired legend Bob Barker on the CBS daytime game show “The Price is Right.” Carey confirmed the deal during a taping of the “Late Show” with David Letterman.
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Falling right in line with the news TiVo CEO Tom Rogers hinted at back in March, the struggling company is readying the highly anticipated HD Series 3 “Lite,which will target a much wider range of consumer with a price point of around $299 All in all, a pretty attractive package when you don’t have a lot of cash to burn.
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Some good news for fans on internet radio. Based on this article from Wired.com a SoundExchange exec just promised — in front of Congress — that SoundExchange will not enforce the collection of webcaster royalties under the new rates that would have driven many of them out of business.
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