Filed under: Humor, iPod Family, How-tos, Productivity
Here's an interesting feature that Apple, understandably, didn't place on the iPod nano's public feature list: deadly killing machine. A tongue-in-cheek article entitled "Eight ways to kill someone with an iPod nano, according to ex-marine Brad Collom" offers just that: a guide to killing someone (effectiveness not guaranteed) with a little plastic box that plays music. Who knew?Holding the Command key (aka the Apple key) and pressing Tab will cycle through your open applications. It's easier to Cmd-Tab if you are Copy (Cmd-C) and Pasting (Cmd-V) to and from various applications.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Nick said 3:47PM on 6-29-2006
I didn't find it funny, much like most things from McSweeney's.
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Rory said 3:57PM on 6-29-2006
Staples on tea bags?
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random said 4:00PM on 6-29-2006
I'm more disturbed by the fact that someone took the time to think up 8 different ways to kill somebody with a device.
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Derek said 4:47PM on 6-29-2006
ummm.....
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Alex said 4:57PM on 6-29-2006
'Break into the lithium-ion battery pack and saturate the tea with the battery's poison'
Wouldn't the lithium, when it comes into contact with oxygen, burst into pretty, eyebrow-removing flames? Group I metals are pretty damn reactive...
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Hobbes Doo said 6:48PM on 6-29-2006
I'm amazed someone would think this would even be remotely funny. Not sure what's worse, if writing the article or promoting it through blogs all over the place. I'd say both.
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Brett Commandeur said 12:42AM on 6-30-2006
hmm... I can think of alot more than eight
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Andy Lee said 7:58AM on 6-30-2006
Yes, many teabags have staples.
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Liam Billington said 8:58AM on 6-30-2006
When I saw this I thought... yes one of them must to be put bono on your iPod.
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Pirate Bill said 10:58AM on 6-30-2006
Oh, I don't know. #7 and #8 are funny. People need to lighten up a little bit.
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NewReader said 11:10AM on 6-30-2006
Is there disturbed intent behind the list? Nah. Is this well written satire? Well, not really. But #s 7 and 8, I think, do begin to get to he funny; the ironic commentary. A good effort none the less.
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Dan Ridley said 11:46AM on 6-30-2006
"Treat the Nano like a slice of cheese pizza in a deep, hot oven."
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Craig said 12:21PM on 6-30-2006
Seriously amplify the output so it kills the person who is listen' to some tunes. I read somewhere a very loud sound (150+ dB) can cause death.
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Kevin said 2:33PM on 6-30-2006
Meh. I'm still waiting for the nano version of iStab.
http://rik.typepad.com/blog/2004/04/istab.html
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Louis said 1:10AM on 7-05-2006
What's hilarious is that Gizmodo is linking to this article and sort of acting like an ex-Marine actually wrote it.
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