Barry sent in a link that has had me laughing all afternoon. From Time Magazine Tech is this article from Harry McCracken covering as he puts it, the 57 Lamest Tech moment of 2012!
Stuff like:
- Apple customers at a Vancouver Best Buy, discover the iPads they’ve purchased look suspiciously like blocks of modeling clay. Seems criminals bought iPads and then returned them for refunds but not before removing the iPads and refilled the boxes.
- Or Motorola selling about 100 refurbished Xoom tablets that may still have their previous owners’ information on them.
- Microsoft ditches the START button in Windows 8?!!
- You know the saying about people that never learn from history? You know the rest? Well it should just read dumb and gullible. It seems quite a few credible websites bit hook line and sinker on a "historical" discovery that a youthful Abraham Lincoln attempted to patent his idea for local newspapers to give each citizen a personal page to “discuss his Family, his Work, and his Various Endeavors” — in effect, a 19th century dead-tree version of Facebook. Great idea, totally fake....
