Why is iTunes 10.2.1 being released so soon after 10.2 added Home Sharing and iOS 4.3 support? Big fixes, most likely. Grab it from your Software Update now, instead of when iOS 4.3 is out and everyone’s hammering Apple’s servers. [BGR] …

WINNING! TIGERBLOOD! I BEAT MY WIFE! COCAINE! If you’re getting sick of the Charlie Sheen internet locomotive, this handy Chrome and Firefox plugin—”Tinted Sheen”—will blot out all text and image mentions of the disintegratin…

Charlie Sheen! Tiger blood! Bi-winning! So many catchphrases we’ve culled from a man’s terribly unfortunate public spiral into oblivion. But did you know that Tiger Blood is an actual thing? Not only t…

Remember when we were growing up (separately, obviously), and those few times we tried prank calling? That was fun. I still remember my parents scolding my younger sister after I dobbed on her. Fun times! The Hairpin revisits those innoc…

The Google Chrome 10 web browser is out of beta, which means you can now download a stable build of the latest version, which promises a 66% bump in Javascript performance. Google also retooled the settings interface and sandboxed Flash …

Aside from infrastructural devastation and enormous loss of civilian life, the 2003 US invasion of Iraq has had some pretty fascinating effects on the way they live—particularly their absorption of American habits. Including the wa…

Xbox 360 seems to be in a pretty prime position: sales are good, games are great. And while new Xbox hardware isn’t expected until 2015 at the earliest, Microsoft has already started hiring the engineers that will usher its console into …

While Rdio wants to stake its claim to your desktop, MOG is directly integrating itself in TVs (Samsung, Vizio, LG) and cars now (BMW Mini). Oh, and Sonos too. [NYTimes] More »

A casual perusal of people with the word “depressed” in their Facebook status reveals the obvious: there are lots and lots of miserable individuals out there. Odds are, one of Facebook’s half a billion users is contemplating suicide righ…

Apple is doing some spring cleaning at its retail stores by getting rid of shelf space for 32 games and some hardware peripherals like printers and harddrives for more space for personalized set-up services. [The Loop via CrunchGear] …