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Dell Mini 9 suffers meltdown, scorches owner’s floor

While this isn’t quite bad enough to merit a “dude, your Dell is on fire” part deux, it’s a pretty frightful example of the hazard modern batteries (of any kind) represent. A Consumerist reader reports that her year-old Dell Mini 9 recently popped, “hissed and sizzled” as it filled her room with smoke and tarnished her fine wooden flooring. Judging from the fallout pictures (available after the break), we’d say the culprit for this Mini fire (oh!) was the battery pack, which again reminds us how badly we need to improve our energy storage technologies. Dell has been quick to remedy the situation with an upgraded laptop being sent over to the young lady and the melted machine packed off to the labs for inspection, though there’s no mention of compensation for the owner’s scarred floor and mind.

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Dell Mini 9 suffers meltdown, scorches owner’s floor originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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5 apps for the scoundrel

Filed under: Humor, Software, Odds and ends, iPhone, iPod touch

Earlier today we were inspired by Pepsi’s AMP UP Before You Score app [iTunes link], which prompts the would-be ladies’ man through several pickup routines, each suited to a different type of young lady (sorority girl, tree hugger, goth girl… that one probably requires a bit of sulking). It’s a bit of fun if not a little classless (and Pepsi & AMP have since apologized). With that in mind, we’ve compiled 5 apps for the scoundrel.

Fake Call apps

This one is more of a trick than a particular app. Here, Manolith describes how to use one of the many fake call apps to your advantage. Before approaching the object of your affection, set up a fake “grandma” profile complete with picture and set to ring one minute into your conversation. Because starting off with deception is the way to go.

The fake call apps let you set up a fake phone call that looks and sounds like the real thing, even with a fake “voice” on the other side. Some are better than others, and could provide escape from a scrape.

Awesome Pickups

Awesome Pickups transports you to the Regal Beagle with the most horrendous pickup lines imaginable. That’s probably part of the fun, in daring each other to actually tell a young single, “You must be Jamaican because you’re Jamaican me crazy!” Simply tap to move from pickup line to pickup line until you’re either slapped or asked to leave.

Amazing Rejections: Smackdown

If you’re on the receiving end of a would-be suitor equipped with Awesome Pickups, Amazing Rejections: Smackdown is for you. Tap to view a laundry list of ill-advised pickup lines and their corresponding denials. Don’t feel badly about using an especially vicious rejection, s/he probably deserves it.

Relationship Test

To end with something more savory than the rest, here’s Relationship Test. This app presents a lighthearted quiz to share with your special someone. Have a few laughs while you learn about each others likes and dislikes. There’s no heavyweight relationship advice here, just a bit of harmless fun. And it’s better than targeting your tweets for a tree hugger.

TUAW5 apps for the scoundrel originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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From the Maker of TweetPsych: Dr. TweetDreams Will See You Now

Social media scientist Dan Zarrella, the creator of pop psych Twitter app TweetPsych has put together a new tool for analyzing tweets about dreams.

Dr. TweetDreams pulls together elements new and old, including symbolic meanings from a 100-year-old dream dictionary and any and all tweets containing the phrase “had a dream.” “I finally got to use all my cool natural language code,” Zarrella told us last night. “I’m using a part-of-speech tagger, a wordstemmer, and Princeton’s WordNet to generate a list of related wordstems which are then matched against a dream dictionary.”

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“This one was actually my girlfriend’s idea,” said Zarrella. “I’m not one for dream analysis, really. But it seemed like a fun thing to build, and I know there are lots of people on Twitter who’ll like it… Also, eventually, I’ll be able to match people who’ve had similar dreams.”

Some of the analyses we tried out were pretty clear-cut:

Other tweets produced hilarious, convoluted, or just plain strange results. One of the particularly interesting things about taking definitions from a 100-year-old dream dictionary is the charmingly antiquated social mores; woe to the married woman who dreams of hugging a man other than her husband! And check out the wonderful fortune in store for this lucky young lady:

Ah, how we long for the golden days of yesteryear, when marriage was a woman’s best occupation! There were also a few misfires in terms of vocabulary; for example, a hundred years ago, a plane was a carpenter’s tool, not a mode of transportation. Nevertheless, we found these idiosyncrasies charming.

Users can take a look at one of the most recent dream-related tweets or check out various analyses on Twitter.

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