There’s some real goodness in today’s Viral Video Chart, but let’s start with a tribute to one of the world’s best surfers, Andy Irons , who was found dead in a hotel room on Tuesday. The only surfer to come close to taking on the mighty Kelly Slater in the World Championships, Irons was only 32 and a very well-loved surfer.

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Oct

What Is This? [Astronomy]

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No, it’s not the video capture of an endoscopy. This particular black vortex lies a bit farther than that.

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My mom doesn’t know smartphones, but she wants Facetime. The same woman who used a Motorola RAZR for most of the last decade now wants to drop – or, more precisely, wants me to drop – $299 for a new iPhone 4 so she can see the grandkids.

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The other day I was talking to an old friend. Not only is this friend outside the tech sphere, he’s just about as opposite of tech savvy as a person can be. He’s basically a luddite. In fact, I was surprised he was even IMing with me, he’s so seldom online. But I was more surprised by what he asked me. “ What do you think of the new iPhone

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