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And now, back to our regularly, completely off-topic scheduled program.
"There is something so fundamentally wrong with this," David Daniel notes, "I bought an 'eBook' from the Arizona State University bookstore. At checkout, I wondered why they wanted me to choose a 'shipping address' and a 'carrier'... and now I know. They FedEx'ed me the eBook."
Carlos Santander spotted this at one of the rooms in the New Yorker Hotel in New York City.
Sam Ashmore writes, "I came home one day after they 'upgraded' the cable, and I found this."
"I found this graffiti on a wall," Marco writes, "I guess some people really couldn't deal with the move to NTFS?"
"I found this 'jack battery' at a friend's flat," writes Martin Haimberger, "the cable which comes out of the wall supplies them all! What a great engineer."
"I don't really know where to put a red frame to mark the spot," Norbert writes, "maybe around the whole picture?"
"We told you our Optional ROM Placement setting was risky," Hae Yu writes, "but did you believe us? Noooo!"
Chris writes, "I think they forgot something."
"Waitaminute," writes Ryan Blace, "so how am I supposed to get in?"
"It might have been helpful to have an instruction to 'read page 61 first' on the front of the manual," writes Paul Webb
"I was a bit confused when I saw the price difference on the two Leo bars," Wouter Verhelst commented, "needless to say, I went for number 51."
"When the soap runs out," Hans Holmberg wonders, "where are you supposed to download more?"
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