Friday's Today Show featured a light-hearted segment on the pitfalls of naming car models, highlighting some of the best (and worse) names in automotive history. At the top of the inappropriate name list was the now-defunct Hummer, for reasons that were completely lost on host Meredith Vieira.
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Apple is set to show off a shiny new device, which means the company needs shiny new media products to show off, too. Like what? Some educated guesses: Expect stuff from Disney and the New York Times, but not from the music labels.
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Thanks to actress Pamela Anderson, among others, overcompensating jillionaires the world over will now be denied the Holy Grail of douchy excess: a giant, armored SUV with an interior crafted in genuine whale penis leather. Russian automaker Dartz has bowed to pressure from Anderson, and other environmentalists, and has pulled the feature from...
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