Associated Press : EAU CLAIRE, Wis. - A Radio Shack employee faces disorderly conduct and battery charges for punching a customer. Police said the customer was trying to return an item Sunday, but the employee wouldn’t let him. The customer then asked to talk to a manager. That’s when the 52-year-old male employee began punching the man. [via Crime Scene KC ]

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Apple’s refusal to discuss how and why it approves applications for the iPhone works with us geeks, because there’s no stake beyond our own curiosity and the business interests of developers. But in refusing to discuss how and why it approved Baby Shaker , it’s come up against an organization that just isn’t going to take that sort of nonsense. From Information Week: Apple’s refusal to disclose how the application found its way onto the App Store was one of several complaints the Sarah Jane Brain Foundation had with the company’s apology, which the group called “stale.” “Who is this apology directed to?” said Patrick Donohue, founder of the foundation. “It’s directed at the media to kill the story. This is the most cynical apology I have ever seen.” Donohue founded the SJBF after his three year-old daughter was shaken by a nurse as an infant and left brain-damaged: one can well imagine that Apple’s isn’t the first apology he’s ever heard. SJBF insists that Apple offer an accounting of the circumstances that led to it approving the $1 program, in which the user shakes a crying baby until it is dead. Apple has denied approval to racy novels, TV show South Park and many other candidate applications on grounds of potential offensiveness. Apple Apology For Baby Shaker Criticized [InformationWeek]

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"The most cynical apology I have ever seen"

…but only, of course, if you set your computer’s clock forward! (Click for the full-size graphic). Camillo Miller writes in: Wanna see what Apple will do at the 1Billionth download mark? Set your Mac’s clock to friday 24th and head to www.apple.com Now here’s a great piece of blogsanity: the source has watermarked its screenshots of this, as if it were some sort of exclusive not available to anyone with a web browser and a clock . Great find, though! Update : Commenter GabrielM wonders why we’ve got it classified as a “fuck up.” It’s not because of the existence of the page itself, but how it reveals that Apple is clearly using an artificial countdown, contrived to pass the threshold at a specific date and time, rather than actually telling us when the billionth App is sold. Source [Mac Magazine via Apple Lounge ]

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David Hambling at Danger Room : Over 90 million rounds of the “green” training ammunition has been used in the United States, since its introduction. It relies on a blend of tungsten and nylon, or tungsten and tin. That gives the bullets the same density and firing properties as the original, but without using lead. Tungsten was considered non-toxic. And, besides, it was believed that it was “non-mobile”, unlikely to dissolve and travel, so it wouldn’t get into the groundwater. But new research by University of Arizona Research Professor of Pediatrics Mark Witten points to a different conclusion: that tungsten may elevate the risk for cancer.

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Reddit user Nevesis has sleuthed a lot of information about the National Auto Warranty Services, Inc aka US Fidelis, Inc, the company that has illegally robocalled millions of customers. These are the only telemarketer calls I have ever gotten on my cellphone.

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"This is your second notice that your factory warranty is about to expire"

“Buy.com” Is Apparently A Curse Word On Best Buy’s Forums [Consumerist]

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Best Buy’s "community" forum flags "Buy.com" as offensive