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Crazy headlines I’d love to see

It’s a cold Friday in Connecticut, and since I refuse to turn on the heat before November, my fingers can hardly feel the keyboard. Snow is in the forecast. This is crazy, and the constant shivering has me thinking about crazy headlines I’d like to see:

Rangers and Cardinals Tied After 20 Innings in “Decisive” Seventh World Series Game
Game halted as clock strikes 3 a.m.

Warren Buffett Donates $300 Billion to Pay Down Deficit
Says money can’t buy happiness, “This stuff is taking up too much space around the house”

Congress Passes Bill Outlawing Movie Sequels; President to Sign
Halloween 8, Saw 12, Cars 9… the madness stops here

Apple Unconditionally Guarantees All Phones, Computers and iPads
“If it stops working, we’ll replace it. Even if you drop it in a puddle,” says CEO Tim Cook

Lady Gaga Straps Live Tiger to Her Back; Tiger Runs into Woods with Singer
After nine days, there’s still no word of her whereabouts

For the First Time in 37 Years, New TV Season Has No Police Dramas
Apparently the public just got tired of blood, gore, and crime

Facebook Introduces New Feature That Tracks How Many Times a Day You Go to the Bathroom
“It’s an important part of our day, and we were missing it,” says founder Mark Zuckerberg

Nothing Bad Happened Today; Experts Baffled
Stock market went up, housing crisis solved, economy added 8 million jobs, and European bankers forgive debt as investors decide to hold massive bake sale




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Startling revelations not from new Steve Jobs biography

For whatever reason – perhaps accuracy or honesty – biographer Walter Issacson did not include the following revelations in his new biography of Steve Jobs:

  • Jobs coined the word “translucent” because he didn’t feel “clear” was dynamic enough to be used at Apple. It loosely translates as “beyond Lucent,” or far cooler than anything Lucent would come up with.
  • In the late 1990s, when the mercurial Jobs grew tired of a presentation he felt lacked intelligence or inspiration, he would fling used disk drives at the presenter.
  • From roughly 1999 to 2006, every time Microsoft introduced a new product, Jobs would buy a copy and bury it in his backyard.
  • Every Apple Store has a hidden apartment in which Apple designer Jonathan “Jony” Ive has the right to stay for the rest of his life.
  • At Jobs’ insistence, if you say the mantra Om mani padme hum to Siri, she will say, “I Love you with a capital L.” Some speculate this is his way of apologizing to the many thousands of folks to whom he was rude.
  • Jobs has not actually died, he has simply been upgraded to a higher version.