Marie Osmond’s Son Reportedly Commits Suicide

Marie Osmond’s 18-year-old son committed suicide by jumping from a building in downtown Los Angeles

Brittany Murphy May Have Taken 109 Vicodin in 11 Days

Actress reportedly filled prescription for 120 Vicodin pills days before her death, and only 11 were left when she was found collapsed in her home. 

GeekDads Ken and Natania Speak at Franklin & Marshall College

As you might have seen publicized on Thursday, Natania Barron and I did indeed have the honor of speaking to the Philadelphia Alumni Writer’s House at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania last night. The crowd of students and staff were wonderful, with many great questions, and even a few laughs! We livestreamed and [...]

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Adult Swim Skins Make Your Phone #1 In The Hood, G

Check check it. Here’s the toughest thing you’ll ever slap on your phone (or computer). Ever.
MusicSkins is a Brooklyn based company that makes vinyl coverings (aka fancy stickers) for iPods, iPhones, laptops, and a glut of other consumer electronics. And now they’ve gotten all sexy with Cartoon Network and commissioned some incredibly cool designs inspired [...]

Nintendo Entering E-Books Market With DSi XL

Nintendo announced that its latest gadget, the DSi XL, will be useful for more than just chasing around in a Mario Kart. You’ll also be able to read books on it.
Bloomberg reports that the first DSi XL e-book offering will be a cartridge containing 100 public domain books, including classics such as Twain and [...]

JooJoo Tablet Set to Ship Around Same Time as iPad

Around the same time Apple’s iPad will land in stores, we’ll also see one of its first competitors: the JooJoo (formerly known as the CrunchPad).
Scheduled to launch March 25, the JooJoo tablet sports a 12.1-inch touchscreen display and weighs 2.4 pounds. The tablet will ship with a custom operating system developed by Singapore-based company Fusion [...]

Entourage E-Reader/Netbook Hybrid to Start Shipping

The world’s first e-reader and netbook hybrid is set to start shipping next week. The dual-screen eDGe, made by Entourage, comes with a 9.7-inch E Ink screen on the left half, and a touchscreen LCD on the right, meaning you can use it as an e-reader, a notepad, or a regular netbook — at the [...]

Apple Files for ‘Magic Trackpad’ Trademark

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Friday published a trademark application for the term “Magic Trackpad,” which was filed earlier this week by Apple. The filing might allude to a rumored product we first heard about last year.
As is often the case with trademark filings, the item described by the application is too broad [...]

Video: Old Apple Notebooks Modded Into a Snowboard

Reduce, reuse, and, if all else fails, recycle, the old mantra goes. But how exactly can you use reuse a dead laptop? In the video above, two German geeks drilled apart their old Mac notebooks and combined them into a snowboard to take to the slopes. As The Unofficial Apple Weblog notes, this is probably [...]