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The upcoming BlackBerry Bold 9900 will be making the rounds to our Canadian carriers. We’ve already seen this on a few Bell internal docs, plus we hear that TELUS andRogers will be releasing this too. Heck, even Dave Dobbin, Mobilicity CEO, is using this while he treks across Canada in their “We’ll prove it to you Tour”. Now regional carrier SaskTel has tweeted their intentions to bring this touchscreen/QWERTY device to the province. They noted that “We are planning on carrying the Bold 9900 but I don’t know of an exact date at this time”. This is right on track with the internal doc we posted back in May that shows the next Curve, Bold, Torch and Storm. The Bold 9900 is expected to be available late August/early September.

Source: Twitter

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The folks over at Deadspin have been keeping us Yanks up to date surrounding the events of the million mile race (that’s an estimate), by kindly focusing on all the various forms of carnage that have occurred over the past month.  Deadspin editor Barry Petchesky anointed this year’s event with the fitting nickname DeathFrance 3000 pretty early on, when rider Maxim Iglisky clipped a spectator in a yellow frock during the very first stage of the race. This small love tap eventually went on to cause a massive bicycle pile-up, which really set a pretty gnarly tone for the rest of the event. The entire tour wraps up this coming Sunday, but I’m willing to bet that it already ranks among the bloodiest.

During the 14th stage of the race, Laurens Ten Dam of the Netherlands, who can be seen at the top of the post, took a trip over his handlebars, planting his face firmly into a ditch. The resulting images produced by the incident are the stuff that nightmares are made of. Ten Dam strapped an ace bandage around his melon upon crashing, which essentially kept his mug from detaching from the rest of his skull, and saddled up for the rest of the ride, Aerosmith-style. While his vibrant blue and orange ensemble may direct your attention away from this guy’s train-wreck-of-a-face for just a moment’s time, it appears there was very little seperating the rider from a Hannibal Lecter victim.

I suppose I should also mention the car/bike that crash which eventually jettisoned a whole cadre of cyclists into a barbed wire fence. You can check out all that damage in the video and image above. I would be doing bicycle/injury enthusiasts a huge disservice if I didn’t at least quickly touch on this wreck.

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