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Four celebs auction off custom designed Toshiba laptops for charity

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Four celebs auction off custom designed Toshiba laptops for charity

Fancy something a bit different to your standard laptop this holiday season and know that you’re raising money for a worthwhile cause in the process? Take a look at these Toshiba notebook PCs featuring exclusive custom designs from four male celebrities: Omar Epps, Joe Perry, Hines Ward and Rainn Wilson. Hines Ward (Steel City) offers up the Toshiba Satellite P505 with 18.4-inch HD TruBrite widescreen display, featuring a black and gold illustration of himself. He’s raising money for the Hines Ward Helping Hands Foundation. Rainn Wilson (actor, writer and film star) is seeking profit for the MONA Foundation with his Toshiba Satellite M505 laptop, with art courtesy of SoulPancake illustrator Read more »

Why do we listen to thin-skinned Plaxo-quitting Stephen Fry?

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Why do we listen to thin-skinned Plaxo-quitting Stephen Fry?

It must be because celebrities bring a certain “cool” quality to social networks and microblogging services — cool in the way the mass of non-techies view things, at least — that we (the media) seem to pay so much attention to them. You see, even I’m writing about it, and I stopped following Stephen Fry’s Twitter account months ago. He didn’t notice, because I didn’t bother to slag him off and test his incredibly thin skin. I’m quite surprised that Stephen, who at least gives the impression of being super-intelligent, didn’t realise that building a huge following on the Internet had significant potential for being criticised. Some people are even Read more »