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It’s a safe bet that of the numerous manias running amok in the English language all ye lascivious schmucks have only heard of Nymphomania. ;)

But there are lots of other ‘manias‘ out there.

Here’s a short list of some manias you probably won’t recognize:

* Bruxomania – Practice of grinding one’s teeth.

* Oniomania – Uncontrollable urge to buy things.

* Empleomania – Obsession to hold public office

* Trichotillomania – Insane desire to pluck one’s hair

* Arithmomania – Fixation with numbers

And now for our favorite mania:

* Peotillomania – Nervous disorder characterized by constant pulling on the penis.

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This morning RedBox (the $1 DVD rental kiosk guys in the U.S) put out an announcement boasting that its free iPhone application had been downloaded a million times since its launch four months.

Since we are occasional users of  RedBox, we thought let’s give the application a spin.

So we took out our iPhone and searched for RedBox on the AppStore.

The download didn’t work the first time. But on the second attempt it worked fine and downloaded the application in less than a minute. Not bad, considering we were on a 3G connection and not WiFi.

Neat Design
When you tap on the RedBox icon on the iPhone screen, it opens up the application giving a list of “Newest Releases” on top followed by “Previous Releases’ later.

The newest releases this morning included five movies: Everybody’s Fine, The September Issue, The Damned United, Black Dynamite and Law Abiding Citizen. Continue reading »

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