A while ago we reported how British climber Rod Baber was going to attempt to place the world’s highest phone call; battling against the elements to brave the 29,035 feet up to the top of Everest; a feat that can only be compared to sucking a tootsie roll inside live volcano in terms of sheer inaneness.

It turns out those people who will wait on line for days just to see a new Star Wars movie aren’t though only ones a little too obsessed with being first. One Hartono Gunawan of Indonesia just bought the first Nokia E90 Communicatorput on sale by Nokia; parting with a mind boggling $5,000 for the exclusive honor.

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RIM just announced the new BlackBerry Curve model, which brings to mind the old Passover Seder question, "What makes this Blackberry different from all other BlackBerrys?"

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I don’t expect every handset released to be a magic show of sparkly light; but good lord… they don’t have to look this antiseptic.

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As the only musical Travis I can name check is the drummer for Blink 182, this promotion probably isn’t going to make waves stateside; but that actually makes sense as the Nokia N76 has never official been offered in the U.S. anyway.

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It takes a certain type of arrogance to label a handset that hasn’t even been released yet a classic and perhaps even delusion when it’s this bland looking. And yet when all the pennies are counted, company accountants might assess the Nokia 6120 Classic is exactly that.

Looking for a new way to say I'm bourgeoisie, please resent me?

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While we Americans tend to think everything revolves around the United States, let’s not forget Christopher Columbus wouldn’t have even bumped into North America if he wasn’t looking for India in the first place.

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What much meaning is there in a name? In popular literature, from Rumpelstiltskin to Beetlejuice there have always been characters whose name was not only the source of their power, but their undoing. On the other hand, in most of those cases, Superman’s Mr. Mxyzptlk is a great example, the name it’s self is complete nonsense.

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Is it just me or does this sucker kind of remind you of a Rubik's Cube?