Desperate times call for desperate measures as these four inmates in El Salvador show. One way to get your cell phone into prison is to wait ’til it comes out. Apparently these guys would use the phones to coordinate robberies and blackmail and murder…you know, the usual stuff. I vote against being the first guy… Continue reading →

More stories about the exploding laptop batteries are sufacing. The guy with the truck and now the house in Florida. While it is yet to be confirmed that the laptop was actually the cause of the fire, the guy seems pretty convinced that it was the culprit. Jumping on the bandwagon to avoid insurance hassles? Or… Continue reading →

I used WikiMapia a while ago to add a satellite image to the Philadelphia Cafe website that I manage. It was incredibly simple to do. It may be this simplicity that has contributed to the site reaching it’s 1 million mark in only around 3 months. Steve Rubel of Micropersuasion also notes that there is… Continue reading →