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Published 10:18 pm Monday, July 12, 2010

A CR Best Buy for the right hand: Consumer Reports says it cannot recommend Apple’s iPhone 4 because of an apparent design flaw that blocks signal reception to the phone’s antenna when the phone is held in the left hand.

But if the iPhone is just too cool to do without, for $19.95, we’ll send you the iPhone iFixed-It adapter kit, which includes a stick, string and duct tape you can use to dangle your iPhone in front of your face.

  • I will not steal golf carts. I will not steal golf carts. A high school football referee is suing the Springfield, Ore., school district after he was struck by a golf cart driven by a little boy.

    Wait a minute. Springfield? An authority figure hit by a golf cart? Driven by a little boy? At a football game? Lawsuit?

    Bart!

  • Young man, there’s no need to feel down: The national headquarters of the YMCA announced that it is simplifying its name to “the Y,” after research showed that many people don’t understand what the nonprofit youth development association does.

    If after 32 years of singing along to the Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.” people still aren’t clear on what the group does, losing three letters from the name isn’t going to help.

    Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.”