Archive for the ‘You wish department’ Category

There’s a sucker born every minute

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

I wasn’t going to blog about this when it first made headlines but now there is a nice continuation so here’s the story. Some lunatic developer, Armin Heinrich — who calls himself an artist — has created an application for the Apple iPhone that does absolutely nothing. The application is called “I am rich” and sells for $999.99 on the iPhone App Store. The idea of the application is that you buy it to show off how rich you are. You will get an application that does nothing but it shows an icon on the application menu. That is where you show off how rich you are.

An application for snobs. I really don’t like the idea behind it and I thought nobody would be dumb enough to actually buy it. But here’s the funny part. One dude claims he bought the application by accident. He clicked on the application, has 1 click checkout enabled and is now the proud owner of an application that does nothing for $999.99.

I don’t think the application says “I am rich”… I think it says “I am stupid”… It has now been removed from App Store.

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Ramana is de nieuwe Uri Geller

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Gisteravond was het dan eindelijk zover. In de laatste aflevering van “De nieuwe Uri Geller” werd de winnaar bekend gemaakt. Ene Ramana. Ramana beschikt over enorme mentale krachten. Lepeltjes buigen is kinderwerk vergeleken bij het laten zweven van zijn jonge leerling. Deze mentalist kan over een aangereikte ring feilloos vertellen dat die ring van de overleden moeder van de eigenaar is. Raar dat Ramana tòch verrast reageert als hij tot “de nieuwe Uri Geller” gebombardeerd wordt. Ziet hij dàt dan nìet aankomen? Kennelijk zijn mentale krachten niet onuitputtelijk.

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