Brace yourselves, Gen Xers. Ken Ober, host of MTV's beloved Remote Control, was found dead at his home in Los Angeles. more ›

23-year-old Patrick Allen was found guilty today of murdering 18-year-old Laney College football player Robert Atkins Jr. Over the use of a remote control. It seems Allen shot Atkins "multiple times at point-blank range" over a dispute between him and his sister over the TV clicker, if you will. Allen claims that he was overcome with emotion "because he thought that Atkins had sexually assaulted his sister, who had been living with Atkins' family for several years, because she phoned him in tears that day and said Atkins had put his hands on her." According to Alameda County Deputy District Attorney Paul Delucchi, however, says that Atkins and Allen's sister had a fight over a remote control, which then sparked the shooting. Amazing. Sentencing is scheduled to happen in February 09. more ›

As we joked to Chicagoist, "Google's offices are pretty much heaven on earth. It's like the clock stopped for them in February of 2000." How do we know? Well, when we let our publisher know that we've been invited to review the new Brondell Swash (yes, it's being arranged -- anything to get that free Silicon Valley 100 swag), he tipped us to the fact that rumors abounded to the hi-tech nature of the company's commodes. more ›