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We didn't see a hundred skydivers, but T-Mobile completed their big mid-day product launch for their hopeful iPhone rival, the myTouch 3G, featuring planes, free-falling, freelance skydivers, colored smoke, mimes, stilt-walkers, BMXers, loud MCs, DJs, many balloons and much brouhaha at Justin Herman Plaza, Pier 39, and elsewhere. Employed people around Embarcadero Center were heard muttering things about the "down economy" and a spectacle the scale and expense of which we haven't really seen since, oh, before the Great Recession. Or maybe the dot-com era. Anyway, here are a few photos. More to come.

We guess this gets filed under KFC-like re-brandings without totally throwing out the company name, but Radio Shack want us to start calling it "The Shack" while still holding onto that R-inside-a-circle logo of theirs. They're doing a kickoff event, or something, using two "fourteen-foot-tall laptops"--one in Times Square in New York and one in Justin Herman Plaza here in SF--on Thursday morning in which they'll be streaming live webcam images back and forth. Also, they promise "contests, bands, etc." No word on who these bands might be.