Bootnotes

When corporate signage goes BAD

LogoBotchThe Cisco slip of 2010
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19 Jun 08:01

AWS launches celebrity-spotting-as-a-service: What a time to be alive

Cloud can now ID 'hundreds of thousands' of athletes, pollies, actors, struggles with oiled butt
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13 Jun 02:35

Swedish school pumps up volume to ease toilet trauma

Don't blush, just flush
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12 Jun 14:58

Hyperloop One teases idea of 50-minute London-Edinburgh ride

Reveals candidate European routes, two tunnels under the Med, under under Baltic Sea
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07 Jun 06:57

Class clowns literally classless: Harvard axes meme-flinging morons

Uni gives kids a lesson they'll never forget after spreading stupidity on Facebook
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05 Jun 20:21

Oil and lube firm offers to ease pains of frustrated office workers

Emo Oil targets overheated marketeers and frigid FM specialists alike
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05 Jun 12:32

Utah fights man's attempt to marry laptop

Foe of same-sex unions seeks to wed machine
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02 Jun 22:02

German robo-pastor preaches the GNU Testament

Bless me father for I have SYNTAX ERROR
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31 May 02:40

IBM marketeers rub out chopper after visit from CEO Ginni

Not a good fit. Apparently
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30 May 09:37

I'll take the sandtrooper in white: Meet the rebel scum making Star Wars armour sets for a living

Star Wars New Hope @ 40Short of £180,000? These guys will sort you out
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30 May 08:02

WannaLaugh? Funsters port WannaCrypt to Commodore, Cisco, Nintendo and Tesla

Some folk have Photoshop and too much time on their hands
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29 May 08:02

The revolution will not be televised: How Lucas modernised audio in film

Star Wars New Hope @ 40Thank God for Jedi (and other words I thought I'd never use)
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26 May 09:06
Gary Lineker and Rolf Harris. #walkerswave

Walkers' Crisps pulls backfiring Tweet campaign that paired Gary Lineker and a bunch of nasties

Pranksters game promo to feature sex crims, murderers, terrorists....
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25 May 16:21
X Wing Rogue One

Industrial Light & Magic: 40 years of Lucas's pioneering FX-wing

Star Wars New Hope @ 40The roots of multithreaded rendering software
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25 May 08:38

'Odour' from AnalTech ramming leads to hazmat team callout

Some might say this is fake news. It isn't
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24 May 12:34

Armstrong's moon-purse set for $4m bid-off

One small bag for a man, one giant check for Sotheby's
23 May 23:53

IT firms guilty of blasting customers with soul-numbing canned music

That's rich, coming from an audio-branded-call-handling biz
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23 May 09:01

Vegemite tries to hijack Qantas name-our-planes competition

He just smiled and gave me... er, a copy of the Ts and Cs
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22 May 16:03

After stiffing us with Trump, Weiner 'fesses to underage cock shot rot

'I have a sickness,' former politician notices while facing two years in chokey
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19 May 18:48

Man sues date for cinema texting fiasco, demands $17.31

'Defendant’s behaviour is a threat to civilised society', claims Texan
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19 May 12:23

White House sicko sent down for 20 years after sexting underage girls

No, not who you're thinking of. Sad!
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18 May 23:50

Leeds cops issue appeal for man-sized todger

Pricking your memory, anyone?
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17 May 12:04

Train station's giant screens showed web smut at peak hour

The 17:21 to Happy Town is going in and out and is aaah-aah-bout to finish its journey
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17 May 06:33

MP3 'died' and nobody noticed: Key patents expire on golden oldie tech

And Fraunhofer won't renew 'em
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16 May 11:38

Blighty bloke: PC World lost my Mac Mini – and trolled my blog!

Retailer accused of acting like a real bunch of Dixons
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16 May 05:04

Giant spawn hammer on Antarctica map. Thanks, Google Waze

UpdatedCrowdsourcing is the future of (pubic) navigation
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15 May 13:55

Have a go with this WW2 German Lorenz cipher machine – in your browser

Fancy a crack at being Germany's secret signalman?
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15 May 10:30
An Insitu Scaneagle drone being launch from a Royal Navy warship. Crown copyright

US Coast Guard: We're rather chuffed with our new Boeing spy drone

Meanwhile Britain is binning it. Well done, admirals
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12 May 12:56
Airlander 10

Huge flying arse makes successful test flight

Nine months after its buttocks ignominiously met terra firma
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11 May 12:10
Desk beer - pint at a keyboard. Photo by shutterstock

Fancy a relaxed boozy holiday? Keep well away from Great Britain

Nanny State Index reveals just how hectored we are by modern-day Puritans
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10 May 16:02
London Undeground, photo by PHOTOCREO Michal Bednarek via Shutterstock

$6,000 for tours of apocalyptic post-Brexit London? WTF, NYT?

Bless the Cousins, they're trying really hard with this one
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09 May 12:24
Value pack of two tins of Spam

Fake ruse: USA Today calls the FBI after half of its 15m Facebook Likes turn out to be bogus

No one real likes us, whines hotel doorstop provider
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08 May 20:44
The UK's sole F-35B in flight. Crown copyright

Italian F-35 facility rolls out its first STOVL stealth fighter

Same place that Blighty's dented jets will get their T-Cut
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08 May 12:19
dumb_and_dumber_648

We are 'heroes,' says police chief whose force frisked a photographer

Brit plod used Terrorism Act to collar snapper. Hello, 2005

Spend your paper £5 notes NOW: No longer legal tender after today

Get yourself a fistful of plastic fantastics instead
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05 May 12:25
Lefty's Bar from Leisure Suit Larry

What augmented reality was created for: An ugly drink with a balloon

Something for the Weekend, Sir?Or you could roll over and go back to sleep
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05 May 10:02
A bus on fire in Whaddon

Fire fighters get grinding on London man’s trapped genitalia

Ilford fire tender attends an East Ender with trapped bellend...ugh...
79 Comments
04 May 13:20
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