Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb obtained the following list of must-have apps from these 5 web übergeeks: Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress likes smart travel social network Tripit Chris Messina, open source community organizer likes Twitter client Tweetie Marnie Webb, co-CEO of TechSoup Global likes note taking service Evernote Baratunde Thurston, Web Editor at The Onion likes Twitter client Tweetie Andy Baio, founder of Upcoming.org

Several hours after our post on increased media coverage of the potential danger of supplement use by high school athletes, the Food & Drug Administration held a press conference and issued a public health advisory on body-building products and steroids.

The pros have rules. The NCAA has its rules. And now there is a media awakening that steroid use in high schools deserves attention.  Newspapers have focused on the subject in recent articles.

iPods sparking and catching on fire? KIRO, the Seattle ABC affiliate, has obtained 800 pages of documents from the Consumer Product Safety Commission detailing cases of iPods catching on fire resulting in injury.

  According to TechCrunch, Social Gaming Network’s F.A.S.T. dogfight game, which launched in early June, earned over $1 million in download fees alone in the first six weeks it was available.

If you thought faux news was the province of only The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and The Onion, welcome to News 13 WKTV. It is the non-TV station,  non-news Web site that reports on Resveratrol Ultra.

What is good for the patient is good for the nurse and doctor, too. The Council for Responsible Nutrition hired Ipsos Public Affairs to ask doctors and nurses how often they took vitamins and why.

AT&T has reported results for the second quarter and they show that the iPhone if propelling wireless revenue to almost half of the company's total revenue.

Your intrepid apps law bloggers, the iFart lawyers, were there in spirit last night when Wyatt Cenac asked, incredulously, whether iFart and Pull My Finger had "real attorneys....jewish

Did Apple's iPhone manufacturing contractor in China Foxconn torture a 25 year old employee who lost one of sixteen 4G iPhones he was entrusted with causing him to commit suicide by jumping from a 12 story building to his death?

Daily Show iFart Segment  

App Store entry Cannabis discovers nearby cannabis-related institutions and organizations in your state as well as links to legal coffee shops abroad.  The program carries a $2.99 price tag (App Store link) and is rated 12+.

When I was an Assistant District Attorney at the Bronx District Attorney's Office I was assigned to the Citizen Complaint Unit.  While occasionally someone with a real complaint would walk through the door, the CCU was essentially a clearing house for all the wackos of the Bronx. 

CNet reports that Apple has begun refusing to give developers promo codes for iPhone applications rated 17+. Apple allows its iPhone developers to request up to 50 promotional codes for their apps when they are uploaded to the App Store.

A change in terms to the Amazon.com Product Advertising API License Agreement is forcing mobile applications developers to discontinue offering iPhone apps that use Amazon's data.

TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington has advocated that "social networking on the iPhone is a huge opportunity, and the fact that the big guys are ignoring it for now leaves the door open for a newcomer to get long term market share."

Video game maker EDGE GAMES has convinced Apple to remove iPhone puzzle game Edge from the App Store based upon claims of trademark infringement.  To read the article, click here.

According to Fierce Mobile Content, a recent trademark filing suggests Microsoft may be planning to launch a second application storefront in addition to its forthcoming Windows Marketplace for Mobile.

Attention copywriters. The FDA has taken out a bright red pen and is poised to mark up your product statements. The green shades (an antiquated description of newspaper copyeditors)  signaled much closer review of health claims with a warning to General Mills about oat cereal.

GetJar, an independent app store, yesterday announced 1.5 billion app downloads in its first year of operation. GetJar has been around since 2004. It features close to 50,000 applications — such as Google Maps and the Opera browser — and works on all major platforms.