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I look at the Soviet plans to go to the Moon and I wonder if they secretly contracted the Marx Brothers to design it. I guess it's easy to say that with hindsight—look at the Apollo program—but couldn't they really see that this was not a very smart option?

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I mean, the game was pretty good too. But the commercials could've been better and the halftime show almost destroyed my faith in humanity. But did you know why I had the most fun this Super Bowl? Twitter.

Source: How Twitter Made This the Most Fun Super Bowl Yet [Superbowl]

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Crafting a new computer is tough. Everyone loves touch—fingers are winning interfaces. But pawing an upright monitor is physically tiring. So? HP's design team cleverly brought the monitor down to you. And we've got their concept sketches.

Source: The HP TouchSmart Computer Designed After a Scorpion's Tail [Design]

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Get Dead Space 2 (PS3, 360, PC) for only $40 (with free shipping). That's 33% off! Many more deals below.

Source: The Best Deal Of the Day [Dealzmodo]

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The Techno-Future Is Already HereChristian Stoll's wide-angle photographs, fittingly used in print campaigns for IBM and Microsoft, may look like scenes from Minority Report, but they're actually views of our little old planet as seen in some of its craziest, most futuristic looking places right now. Go check out the rest of the set, titled "Epic," at Stoll's site and perhaps feel a fleeting appreciation for trees and squirrels and stuff like that. [Christian Stoll]

Source: The Techno-Future Is Already Here [Photography]

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Brian Barrett — LA Cops Seize Million Worth of Fake iPhones, iPods, and MoreLook at them all: iPods and iPhones of every color and every generation. It's a king's ransom of iProducts—except every single one of them is a fake.

The Los Angeles Port Police seized the counterfeit goods from several downtown warehouses as part of a massive two-month long bust. What they found, according to the LA Times:

Source: LA Cops Seize $10 Million Worth of Fake iPhones, iPods, and More [True Crime]

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As they're wont to do, iFixit and 9to5Mac have (separately) torn apart the new Verizon iPhone, discovering some small changes and one big one: the Qualcomm MDM6600 chip inside. That chipset supports both GSM and CDMA transmission (HSPA+ data rates up to 14.4 Mbps) and it happens to be the one that you'll find inside a Droid Pro world phone.   

Source: Verizon's iPhone Could Have Been a World Phone [Teardown]

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According to Reuters, U.S. border patrol recently picked up two illegal immigrants who used dive scooters to cross from Mexico to California. This has to be the most thrilling personal sea scooter episode since that fight in Thunderball.

The two men, 38 and 16 years old, were walking on a beach south of San Diego wearing wet suits and holding their scooters when they were spotted by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection helicopter.

Source: Immigrants Caught Using Dive Scooters to Cross U.S. Border [Scooters]

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Kyle VanHemert — Simplenote for iPhoneThere are apps you enjoy and there are apps you rely on. For many of us at Giz, Simplenote is the latter. Clean, quick, flawlessly synced notes, on any device you happen to be using.

Source: Simplenote for iPhone [AppOfTheDay]

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Jason Chen — The Best of Gizmodo Today / roundupsThis Is the New Gizmodo
Take a look around. This is the new Gizmodo.

Source: The Best of Gizmodo Today