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That's usually the attitude people have until they use one. Read more

That's exactly it. I'm under no mandate to link to the other sites. I actually like to share links that I think the Kotaku audience will find interesting! Read more

I tried it both ways. The 3D effect helps make it a bit more immersive, but it's still pretty fantastic without it. Read more

Pop == "popular music". They aren't Katy Perry, but they aren't Rachmaninoff, either. Read more

There were tech burbles. You're not crazy. We're pretty sure they're quashed...FOR NOW. Read more

Some of them (including a few new ones provided by the author) are in the video. I didn't want to put the more raw ones up on the front page. Read more

Ha! I noticed the same thing. Didn't know if I should leave it in there or not, but figured it was like a little mint after a bad meal. Read more

You're welcome to move on if you feel the need. (And I say that with no malice.) But do bear in mind that much of the commenting system and such is undergoing constant tweaks and improvements. The nature of a big system like this—especially one developed and maintained by a relatively small team—is that for all the Read more

Working on it. There is a strange issue that Facebook has with parsing URLs with #! inside. Which is weird, because most of the rest of the parsing engines of the web handle them fine. Read more

The sidebar is working on a slight delay at the moment. It'll catch up. And soon it'll be back to real time as designed. Read more

@shmynchronicity: It's not really built for that. You could certainly use it that way, but the cradle is too big to comfortably pocketed and you'd have to rig up power over a generic USB battery pack or something. Read more

@Bluecold: I didn't get incredibly technical. I basically drove around with it a few times over the last few months out in the mountains (or wherever) and waited until the signal of my phone died, then backtracked until I got a signal with the phone in the Sleek. Then I would make a test call and check for data. Read more