Viral Video: Om Nom Nom Nom

Here’s This Week in Tech, or TWiT, in which tattoos, cupcakes and — oh, yeah — tech was discussed.
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These Friends Are Forever: Woman Gets Facebook Tattoo

“Dunbar’s Number” is the theory that the number of people with whom we have persistent social relationships often tops out around 150. Well, one woman in the Netherlands has chosen her 150–152 to be exact–and had their Facebook profile pictures tattooed on her arm. Here’s the video.
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Android Phones Proliferate

Until this summer, U.S. consumers interested in owning an Android-powered cellphone were limited to T-Mobile’s G1. But the Google operating system is appearing in a slew of new handsets by HTC, Samsung, LG and Motorola. The specs for Samsung’s newest Android phone, the I5700 Galaxy Lite, leaked in an online video that made its way around the Web Tuesday.

Microsoft Exec: Red Polos, to Us, Are Like Turtlenecks to Steve Jobs

Every year, Microsoft puts on a bash for Web designers and programmers in Las Vegas called Mix. At this year’s conference, the company focused on its new Internet Explorer 8 Web browser, but it also took a not-too-subtle dig at Steve Jobs, with a send-up of prima donna executive antics.