June 1, 2010 – This is "Scooby Doo," a 60 lb. robot built by the same people that sell you the Roomba vacuum cleaner. It defused 19 explosive devices in Iraq before being "killed" in action. [Jalopnik]
May 24, 2010 – 72-year-old Sandra Powell was caught in her tan Buick going 102 in a 45 mph zone. According to the report, Ms. Powell was less upset about being stopped and arrested, than being late for her hair appointment. [Jalopnik]
May 21, 2010 – It's what every tailgate aficionado dreams of, but never actually follows through on. One enterprising VW owner installed a working beer tap on his Jetta's trunk. [Jalopnik]
May 20, 2010 – Pontiac produced this xenophobic video 40 years ago to scare the crap out of its assembly line workers and encourage them to "show up to work each day" to build quality automobiles. [Jalopnik]
May 19, 2010 – I own a 2001 Land Rover Discovery II SE7 and I love it — even though it's always broken. Hi! I'm Jordan Golson, and I'm going to be helping out at Jalopnik for the next couple of days. [Jalopnik]
May 14, 2008 – We're here at the Boylston Street Apple Store for Media Day. No line outside, but plenty of reporters playing with the toys. Ron Johnson, Apple's SVP of Retail, is here with hizonnah Mayor Thomas Menino to open the largest Apple Store in the country (confirmed!). [Gizmodo]
May 5, 2008 – Later this month, Apple is opening its latest flagship store on Boylston Street in Boston. The store's main claim to fame? It's huge. We're talking largest Apple Store in the world country, by square footage. [Gizmodo]
April 16, 2008 – Chief Mahalo Jason Calacanis, interviewed in his Brentwood hot tub by a puppet. Got a better caption? Leave it in the comments. Bonus points if you're familiar enough with The 250 to identify both puppeteer and puppet.
April 16, 2008 – Crack videoblogger Robert Scoble heads to Mahalo to interview bulldog entrepreneur and blog blowhard Jason Calacanis. Scoble rolls 24 interminable minutes of virtual tape as Calacanis talks about the math of buying monitors and comfy chairs and how the backend of Mahalo works.
April 15, 2008 – If TechCrunch were a football blog, every player in the scouting combine would be the next Tom Brady.
April 15, 2008 – Californians have another 7 and a half hours to file their taxes. If you haven't started yet, it's time to jump on TurboTax.com and get cracking. This will be my first year filing taxes without a W-2. More »
April 15, 2008 – We heard from a tipster that Julia Allison's reality show has been given the go-ahead to begin production. No word from JA herself though, just a mysterious blog post.
April 15, 2008 – 19-year old NYU student Alana Taylor really wants to be the next "It" tech girl and the new Mahalo Daily host. She even has a show on UStream, which apparently is the hot new thing. More »
April 15, 2008 – A blogger noticed the Oklahoma Department of Corrections was making the Social Security numbers of thousands of registered sex offenders viewable through a security hole on a state website.
April 14, 2008 – Newly softhearted Gawker Media head Nick Denton offers some kindly advice for TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington: "@Michael Arrington: Hey, everybody has been expecting the grand roll-up ever since you hired Heather.
April 14, 2008 – Jason Calacanis makes a list of ways to relieve stress with friends. Our favorite? "g) next time you go to a conference fly there with someone. Mike Arrington, Om Malik and I were all on the same flight to Le Web this past year.
April 14, 2008 – BusinessWeek columnist Sarah Lacy, in Israel for a conference, is feeling the heat, and this time not from a conference audience. Tipsters, don't fail us now:
April 14, 2008 – Could Apple be preparing to spend its $18 billion cash hoard on acquisitions? Apple has hired Charles Charnas, an 18-year HP veteran who oversaw the $25 billion merger between Compaq and HP, to run Apple's intellectual-property licensing and strategic acquisitions.
