The 404 888: Where you have a weak electrochemical bond (podcast)

Redditor buys HP TouchPad with Android already ported!

(Credit: Reddit user Gringo1980)

You can stop holding your breath for someone to port Android onto the HP TouchPad--it turns out someone already has, in secret! This Reddit thread has pictures and video evidence of an HP TouchPad purchased at Best Buy on Saturday that boots up with Android already on it.

And if that doesn't work out, Hack N Mod is offering a $1,500 bounty to anyone who can successfully achieve the five different tasks involved in rooting and booting Android.

In other news, did you know that the "Fifth Element" movie was based on only the first half of director Luc Besson's original 400-page script? Reddit strikes again and tells us that the second story, called "Mr. Shadow," wasn't made, but we can't help but dream about its story...

Also, PETA is launching a porn Web site that pulls the old bait 'n' switch by drawing in Netizens with dreams of dirty movies, then exposing them to gruesome movies exposing the mistreatment of animals. Those two things go together, right?

The 404 Digest for Episode 888

• A guy who gets a TouchPad at Best Buy discovers Android already on it.
• Modders offer a bounty for an HP TouchPad Android port.
• PETA plans to launch a porn site.
• Today I learned that "The Fifth Element" was based on only the first half of Luc Besson's original screenplay.

Episode 888