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 [...]
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!read more | digg story
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.
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.read more | digg story
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.
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“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…”read more | digg story
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.read more | digg story
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.read more | digg story
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 [...]
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.read more | digg story
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 [...]
Finally….It took awhile but America has finally got it right and sent Sanjaya home. My only complaint about the bottom 3 was that Blake was there instead of Chris.
The Copyright Royalty Board has rejected an appeal of last month’s ruling governing royalties paid by Internet broadcasters. The new rules will now take effect on May 15. Internet Radio is now officially in big trouble.read more | digg story
A stealthy system update served fresh from Nintendo will open the door to your spiffy, new and improved Opera browser.read more | digg story
EMI Music launches DRM-free superior sound quality downloads across its entire digital repertoire
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“Yahoo is announcing that all Yahoo Mail users will have unlimited storage starting in May 2007. The current storage limit is 1 GB per account (2 GB for $20/year premium users). With this change, Yahoo leapfrogs Gmail (2.8 GB and growing) and Live.com Mail (2GB).”read more | digg story
Satellite radio operators Sirius and XM are expected to announce their long-awaited merger today, according to a source familiar with the deal. The two sides were locked in negotiations over the weekend trying to hammer out a final agreement with an eye toward going public with the merger today in Washington, D.C., where XM is [...]
Do terrestrial radio stations need government protection from satellite broadcasters? A pair of congressmen think so and have introduced legislation that would take local traffic and weather off of XM Radio and Sirius.read more | digg story
TiVo Series 3 and 2 set top boxes will be living room conduits for Amazon’s Unbox IP video on demand service. This is the first single box solution that intermingles downloadable broadband video and traditional TV in one place.read more | digg story
In some parts of the world, the Seattle Seahawks are the reigning Super Bowl champions, the Buffalo Bills are the last great football dynasty and Tom Brady is some frustrated quarterback from New England who can never win it all.read more | digg story
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