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HTC Dream

Behold: The Google Phone — and its first customer. Leaked footage comes complete with Darth Vader breathing noises.

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A passel of double-domes

Challenged by the Times’ Gregory Cowles to a game of Dictionary, Ammon Shea (Reading the OED) chose Webster’s Third, due to the edition’s bad blood with the paper.

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