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Jeff and Natali attended a special event last night to kick off the June 4 launch of the HTC Evo 4G and were also given a sneak peak of Hollywood's latest video game movie adaptation, "Prince of Persia: Sands of Time." Without dropping any spoilers, suffice it to say it means a lot when you walk out of a movie with free admission and cupcakes.

The takeaway was the pricing details and release date announced at the event--the HTC Evo 4G is already available for preorder at Best Buy and Radio Shack for $199 with a two-year … Read more

Wilson's 24-hour bug lays dormant for now, so he's back on today's episode of The 404 Podcast just in time to usher Hugh Hefner and his gang of co-eds into the studio! Trust me, if we had a magic lamp in the room we'd be rubbing it to no end for that wish to come true, but until that day comes we'll have to settle for Playboy Magazine centerfolds in 3D.

The June issue of the gentleman's magazine hitting stands Friday will feature all three dimensions of centerfold Hope Dworacyk and includes a set of those blue-and-red paper glasses so you can enjoy your porno like an 11-year-old flipping comics in the '80s.

As expected, the only words Wilson can produce are, "Ohhhh my," but Jeff and I are just wondering if this is the last futile flail by a publication made completely obsolete by the Web's generous bounty of free content. And besides, anyone who cares about porn* knows that 3D video porn is already available to anyone with four grand and a set of misdirected priorities.

A new study angrily ripped from the pages of "No $&!# News" suggests that certain four-letter curse words can help alleviate physical pain triggered by receptors in the brain. Research for the study was conducted by Richard Stephens, a psychologist in Massachusetts who was inspired by the waterfall of swear words blurted out by his wife during labor pains.

He found that certain curse words, particularly the most common forms that start with F, S, C, D, B, P, M, and T (use your imagination) allowed both male and female subjects to keep a hand in chilly water longer. At its conclusion, the participants also reported feeling significantly less pain after letting off some verbal steam.

Tune in to hear each of our favorite curse words and a glimpse into why Jeff's mouth is so dirty that it just got sponsored by Dove.

Thanks to everyone who left us Calls from the Public echoing our rants on Facebook's latest blitz on Internet privacy. We're far from finished complaining, so stick around for the second half of the show where we expose more privacy pitfalls and threaten to jump ship back to the original social network: pen friends!

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Wilson's powers to predict the future must be waning because he didn't warn us about the illness keeping him bedridden during today's episode of The 404 Podcast. The universe seems to work itself out, however, because CNET News reporter Caroline McCarthy is back from her sojourn to San Francisco, and hopefully on a semi-permanent basis this time!

She joins us this morning to discuss a couple social networking stories on her CNET News blog, The Social, including Twitter's "auto-follow" bug, Facebook automatically adding profile pages, and McDonalds teaming up with Facebook!

If you could force anyone on Twitter to follow you, who would you choose? A recent bug in the Twitter platform turned that wish into a fantasy yesterday when it was discovered that members could add any follower to their account simply by tweeting "accept" and the "@" symbol with a corresponding user name. As a result, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Evan Williams both found themselves following the mundane details of random hackers around the world, although Caroline tested the bug herself with Mr. Kutcher's account with success as well.

Fortunately, an update posted on the Twitter status blog reports that engineers are working diligently to remove the bug and set the Earth back on its axis.

Facebook is also moving forward with its location-based technology platform, starting with a partnership with McDonald's that lets fast food patrons check-in at any of the golden arches restaurants. The app also posts exactly which menu items you order so your friends will know exactly how much you hate your body.

The female presence on The 404 is seriously lacking, so we're taking this rare opportunity to get Caroline's perspective on six gender stereotypes that science proves are true. Most of them smell like bull, but there seems to be some truth in the idea that women apparently can't navigate directions.

Now before you start sending in hate mail, we should mention that these are all statements do not reflect the personal beliefs of the hosts of The 404 or CNET or CBS or anyone but Cracked, who wrote the article. In it they cite one study that found boys carry an innate ability to see a third dimension which contributes to increase spatial ability compared to girls by a radio of 4:1.

In a supposedly unrelated story, Caroline tells us she failed her first time at the DMV on her driver's test, although she claims that it had more to do with her lack of practice than her gender...apparently this list of stereotypes isn't the only thing that smells of bull!

We love having Caroline on the show, but she won't come back unless you call 1-866-404-CNET and beg her to do so! You can also e-mail us at the404(at)cnet(dot)com and we'll forward your grovel to her, so get to work! With any hope, Wilson will be out for the rest of the week so we can have her back again!

Just kidding Wilson, get well soon!

Leave it to Wilson to make the rest of us look bad on Mother's Day. While we were all scrambling to make it to Duane Reade before closing time on Saturday, Wilson had already ordered a Fed Ex truck to deliver all the presents to his Mother down in Florida. We hope the rest of you had a fun weekend, but don't forget that just because Mother's Day is over doesn't mean that you're off the hook for the rest of the year; keep up the love!

President Barack Obama gave a commencement speech at Hampton University over the weekend where he warned the graduates about the dangers of a "24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content...some of which don't always rank all that high on the truth meter."

We were in complete agreement with everything Obama was saying...until he openly admitted to not knowing how to use an Apple iPod/iPad, an XBox, or a Playstation. It's no surprise that our Commander-in-Chief has bigger issues to worry about than dead pixels, but if a 99-year-old Grandma can pinch and pull her way around an iPad, what's Obama's excuse?

Don't forget to don your lead underwear the next time you get in line for a body scan at the airport. Rolando Negrin, a 44 year old attendant with the TSA learned that lesson the hard way when he threatened a colleague with a police baton after the bully allegedly made fun of his exposed genitalia during a routine training session at a Miami Airport.

The lesson began with Negin showing a group of trainees how to use the full body scanner, but the session soon turned into a roast when his colleagues started poking fun at the smaller-than-average size of his junk. In the bully's defense, it's completely possible that the first joke was made to relieve the tension of seeing his boss in his birthday suit, and Negin shouldn't have gotten so pissed- I'm sure they keep the air condition on pretty high during Spring and Summer.

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