For real? What the hell, CTA? What was once an incredibly entertaining enterprise — discovering, trying and ridiculing absurd console peripherals — has just become an exasperating chore. We laughed heartily at your Wii bowling ball, and eagerly anticipated the inevitable living room destruction. We chortled at the somewhat amusing Wiimote football and its possibilities for foolishness. Then, you forced a weary sigh when you gave us the monotonous Wii rower with its limited opportunities for hilarity.

Now, you give us the fanciful and infuriating Wii Wings. According to the CTA Digital website, the Wiings will help unfortunate recipients “soar to new heights” of nerd-dom, before they undoubtedly get pummeled mercilessly by cool-guys and bullies. Maybe, CTA, blasting some flying stuff with your once-cool Wii shotgun will help us to forget about un-caging our incredibly lame “inner bird.” Until then, thanks for ruining what was once a favorite video game pastime. We just hope you’ll apologize to, and reimburse, all the poor kids who will inevitably receive this winged-FAIL from well-intentioned grandparents. [From: Engadget]

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Its been nearly 2 years since Apple launched the App Store. In that time, would-be comedians around the Internet have successfully extracted just two jokes from it. “Fart apps and tip calculators!” Hah! “There’s an app for that!” Hah hah. Hah. Hah. Little did we know, there was still one untapped source of hilarity involving the app store left: physical humor.

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Tyler Durden (an excellent character) is NOT how much money he has in the bank.

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So Southwest airlines had a good old, fun time with director Kevin Smith this week. Hilarity ensued to be certain, but Eric feels the need to step onto his very worn soapbox about

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It’s Friday. You’ve got the weekend and, chances are, a short week coming up. Life is good. Let’s celebrate by kicking back and enjoying some gadget hilarity.

World’s Greatest iPhone: The image of the iPhone above is obviously a shop, but YouTube, Weather and Safari still have me laughing months later. [igmur via Link]
Beta Version of BigDog Quadrupled Robot: Needless to say, the beta version of Boston Dynamics’ BigDog was rather primitive. You have Peter Furia, David Fine and Beau Lewis of Seedwell Marketing to thank for this hilarious spoof. [Link]

Road Sign Hacking: It’s illegal to hack a road sign, but the control boxes are rarely protected. Unfortunately, that makes pranking easy, which will lead people to ignore warnings when there is an actual zombie outbreak. [Link]

What Happens When You Bring a 22-Year Old Mac to a Genius Bar? Our own Adam Frucci finds out.

Squirrel Photo Crasher: Surely you recall seeing this image when it hit big a few months back. Many thought it was a fake, but it turns out that all the couple needed to score their 15-minutes was a Gorillapod, a camera and some luck. [Link]

HSN Wiimote Mishap: There have been plenty of videos of Wiimote-related incidents over the years, but it’s even funnier when it happens on live television. [Kotaku]

Fart Machine Grinds Government to a Halt: A kid brings down city council meeting with mechanical farts. Amusing, but I bet this could be a serious weapon in a fillibuster. [Link]

Gold Medal BSOD: The dreaded Blue Screen of Death can strike anywhere—even at the opening ceremonies of the Olympics. [Link]

Office Camouflage: I’m not sure what the hell they are saying, but the funny still gets across. [Link]

Forklift Catastrophe: It’s only funny now because no one got hurt, but damn. Destroying $250,000 worth of vodka with a little fender bender is a sign that you need to update the shelving system in the warehouse. [Link]

It’s he said/she said time, where maybe like Fake Steve is the She and maybe like AT&T is the he. So like Fake Steve was all like “Let’s send nasty texts about AT&T! And then we’ll mess with them on Friday.” And then AT&T is all like “No way! Nobody does that to me!” Hilarity ensues!

We understand that fakesteve.net is primarily a satirical forum, but there is nothing amusing about advocating that customers attempt to deliberately degrade service on a network that provides critical communications services for more than 80 million customers. We know that the vast majority of customers will see this action for what it is: an irresponsible and pointless scheme to draw attention to a blog.

Then Fake Steve is all like:

I think the reason people are so angry goes beyond AT&T and the iPhone. I think the anger stems from the fact that we’re living in the United States, which used to be considered a First World country, and yet we’re dealing with a wireless system that feels like something you’d find in Port-au-Prince during hurricane season. In fact the developing world is racing past us, building out new wireless networks while we’re stuck with this POS legacy infrastructure run by POS legacy behemoths that either can’t or won’t bring it up to snuff.

His real point? That AT&T needs to step it up. Their expenditures on network is down 30% in the past two years while data revenue is up 80%. That means they’re making lots of money selling the same data that they’re asking folks to use sparingly. I’ve spent more on two lines of AT&T service since the launch of the iPhone than I ever did with T-Mobile and now, in addition to massive data costs when roaming I can’t get calls in New York and San Francisco, let alone out in Columbus where my parents live.

I think Chokehold is a joke. AT&T is designed to handle this kind of run on bandwidth for a few hours but the fact is that it can’t handle extended use by a large number of people over the course of a few more hours is an embarrassment at best.

A&TT has to fix this.

Oh, dear. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was on The Today Show (international viewers: The Today Show is a morning news and entertainment program that airs on NBC, a big TV network here) to unveil Windows 7. Call me crazy, but isn’t that a first-gen MacBook Pro in the background? Good job, NBC!

I’ve embedded the video from Hulu for our U.S. readers, and for international readers here’s a few screencaps:

Once again, bravo, NBC, for a job well done! (And people call us sloppy, with a budget one-zillionth that of The Today Show!)