When I Grow Up by Weird Al, now on iPad

One of our favorite geeky musicians, “Weird Al” Yankovic, released a children’s book early this year about the vast universe of choices kids have when deciding what to be when they grow up. The main character, Billy, wants to do a bit of everything — a trait shared by many a geek, as I mentioned here. The book, When I Grow Up, has now hit the iPad in an interactive version designed by Bean Creative, and it’s a blast.

I spoke with musician — and now, New York Times best-selling author — Al Yankovic by phone about writing kids books, reaching a new g...

A lawyer for copyright troll Righthaven is declaring under penalty of perjury that an update to his computer’s browser prohibited him from electronically submitting a legal filing before an angry judge’s deadline.

And it was no ordinary filing U.S. District Judge Roger Hunt was demanding.

Nevada’s chief judge two weeks ago ordered Righthaven, which sues bloggers and websites for infringement of Las Vegas Review-Journal articles, to explain why the litigation factory made “dishonest statements to the court.” Hunt wanted the answer by June 28, but Righthaven’s Las Vegas lawyer filed a reply a day...