{"id":156840,"date":"2010-01-08T20:47:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T01:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5444165"},"modified":"2010-01-08T20:47:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T01:47:21","slug":"the-meanest-thing-gizmodo-did-at-ces-this-year-wasnt-that-mean-ces2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/156840","title":{"rendered":"The Meanest Thing Gizmodo Did at CES This Year Wasn&#8217;t That Mean [Ces2010]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object id=\"mbox_player_7a97d5b01c1be1c2f5\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" class=\"left gawkerVideo embeddedVideo videoObject_0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/bg-video.cp.motionbox.com\/motionboxons\/flash\/VideoPlayer.swf?video_uid=7a97d5b01c1be1c2f5&#038;type=sd&#038;security_token=prod3.b8436de420078a55\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><embed name=\"mbox_player_7a97d5b01c1be1c2f5\" src=\"http:\/\/bg-video.cp.motionbox.com\/motionboxons\/flash\/VideoPlayer.swf?video_uid=7a97d5b01c1be1c2f5&#038;type=sd&#038;security_token=prod3.b8436de420078a55\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" class=\"left gawkerVideo\"><\/embed><\/object><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/7a97d5b01c1be1c2f5.jpg\"><\/a><br \/> We&#8217;ve caught a lot of flak for our <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/343348\/confessions-the-meanest-thing-gizmodo-did-at-ces\">TV-B-Gone CES prank from two years ago<\/a>. This year, we decided to focus on the press instead of the exhibitors.<\/p>\n<p>We bought our fellow exhausted scribes free pizza! Because really, CES sucks the life out of you, we&#8217;re all in this together and everybody loves pizza.<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, it wasn&#8217;t quite a prank, but a CES worker did get pretty ticked off at me and threaten to kick us out after taking my name down. 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This year, we decided to focus on the press instead of the exhibitors. We bought our fellow exhausted scribes free pizza! Because really, CES sucks the life out of you, we&#8217;re all in this together and everybody loves pizza. 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