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The Wackiest Technology Tales of 2008

Posted by timothy on from the hindsight-is-much-better-than-20/20 dept.

coondoggie writes "Despite the daily drumbeat of new and improved hardware or software, the tech industry isn't all bits and bytes. Some interesting things happen along the way too. Like floating data centers, space geekonauts, shape shifting robots and weird bedfellows (like Microsoft and Jerry Seinfeld). What we include here is an example of what we thought were the best, slightly off-center stories of 2008."

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  1. Re:Wow.. by ChromeAeonium · · Score: 5, Funny

    (well unless perhaps you consider quantum mechanics - I'd call that stuff wacky)

    -Hey Electron, what are you doing? You'd better not be eating my Christmas cookies!
     
    -Nope, I'm over here!
     
    -Hey, my cookies are gone! Damn it Heisenberg, isn't there any way to compensate?
     
    -Judging by the size of your microscope, I'd say someone's compensating!
     
    Yep, the Subatomic Sitcom practically writes itself.