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Inspired by tennis legend John McEnroe, the Nike Air Zoom Tennis Trainer Men’s Shoe sharpens your game with match-tough features and plush cushioning.

This John McEnroe trainer is a slightly altered version of the 2004, but still looks and feel like the model that was released 4 years ago. However, the 2004 retailed at $110 while the 2008 will only be $80. Furthermore, the Air Zoom Tennis Trainer 2008 will also include John McEnroe’s face embroider on the tongue. Via NT.

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The fictional shoe worn by Marty McFly in ‘Back to the Future II’ is being released by Nike sometime in July. It will be called Nike Hyperdunks.

Not as cool as the movie version, but still sweet…

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The HD DVD camp, still reeling after losing support from Netflix this morning, may feel flattened as Best Buy has announced it will officially promote Blu-ray as the HD format of the future. - Engadget

Netflix Inc., the online movie rental company, said Monday it is switching exclusively to the Blu-ray format for high-definition DVDs, following four major movie studios in selecting the Sony technology over one pushed by Toshiba Corp.

“From the Netflix perspective, focusing on one format will enable us to create the best experience for subscribers,” the company said, adding that not many customers order high-def DVDs.

Many consumers have held off on buying a high-def DVD player until the dominant format is decided. - AP

LEGO turned 50 yesterday. Gizmodo has a cool LEGO timeline. It includes major advances in LEGO technology over the years. Click image to enlarge.

LEGO brick curiosities

• There are about 62 LEGO bricks for every one of the world’s 6 billion inhabitants.

• Children around the world spend 5 billion hours a year playing with LEGO bricks.

• LEGO bricks are available in 53 different colors.

• 7 LEGO sets are sold by retailers every second around the world.

• The LEGO bricks sold in one year would circle the world 5 times.

• 40 billion LEGO bricks stacked on top of one another would connect the earth with the moon.

• There are 55,600 LEGO videos on YouTube.

A new hotel opened up in Las Vegas last week called The Palazzo Las Vegas. The 50-story, 3,000 room hotel-casino is the first new hotel on the Las Vegas strip in nearly three years.

Also, Angie Harmon was there who’s in a new TV show called “Women’s Murder Club” and who is married to ex-Giant Jason Sehorn. Go G-MEN!

“Byrne: Are you making money on the download of In Rainbows?

Yorke: In terms of digital income, we’ve made more money out of this record than out of all the other Radiohead albums put together, forever — in terms of anything on the Net. And that’s nuts. It’s partly due to the fact that EMI wasn’t giving us any money for digital sales. All the contracts signed in a certain era have none of that stuff.”

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Actor-activist Brad Pitt greenlighted a bold initiative this summer to start making things better in New Orleans’ flood-devastated Lower 9th Ward. Now, he’s expanding on that with a new foundation called “Make It Right,” pledging that the first of at least 150 environmentally friendly homes will be ready by next summer.

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Officials closed the restaurant Wednesday night after it failed its second inspection in a month. An inspector spotted a live mouse and mouse droppings, fruit flies, house flies and more than 100 live cockroaches.

“Both inspections revealed rodent and fly infestation and conditions conducive to pest infestation, including stagnant water in the basement,” the department said. - Yahoo

The Gatorade Company and Tiger Woods announced today a collaboration to develop Tiger-inspired sports performance beverages for athletes at all levels. The first product, Gatorade Tiger, is a Gatorade Thirst Quencher subline that will be launched in March 2008.

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“The New York Times will stop charging for access to parts of its Web site, effective at midnight tonight.

The move comes two years to the day after The Times began the subscription program, TimesSelect, which has charged $49.95 a year, or $7.95 a month, for online access to the work of its columnists and to the newspaper’s archives. TimesSelect has been free to print subscribers to The Times and to some students and educators.

In addition to opening the entire site to all readers, The Times will also make available its archives from 1987 to the present without charge, as well as those from 1851 to 1922, which are in the public domain. There will be charges for some material from the period 1923 to 1986, and some will be free.”

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“First, I am sure that we are making the correct decision to lower the price of the 8GB iPhone from $599 to $399, and that now is the right time to do it. iPhone is a breakthrough product, and we have the chance to ‘go for it’ this holiday season. iPhone is so far ahead of the competition, and now it will be affordable by even more customers. It benefits both Apple and every iPhone user to get as many new customers as possible in the iPhone ‘tent’. We strongly believe the $399 price will help us do just that this holiday season.

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Therefore, we have decided to offer every iPhone customer who purchased an iPhone from either Apple or AT&T, and who is not receiving a rebate or any other consideration, a $100 store credit towards the purchase of any product at an Apple Retail Store or the Apple Online Store. Details are still being worked out and will be posted on Apple’s website next week. Stay tuned.

We want to do the right thing for our valued iPhone customers. We apologize for disappointing some of you, and we are doing our best to live up to your high expectations of Apple.”

Steve Jobs
Apple CEO

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