Everybody makes mistakes, and Apple is no different. Occasionally, it seems as if they’ll accidentally charge customers who buy something through iTunes twice for the same download. That’s what happened to Robert Herskowitz. That would be fine, however, if Apple just fessed up and refunded him for the second download. They’re refusing, however, which is why Herskowitz is filing a class action lawsuit.

As this candid video shows, this goose means business. Before the video began rolling, a girl walked by and the aggressive goose caused her to drop her bag. When the man seen in the video walked by, the girl called out to him to grab her bag, but that goose wasn’t having any of it. Unfortunately for the goose, the man walking by wasn’t having any of the goose either. An epic showdown, resulting in a once lost bag now reclaimed.

Child pornography is a particularly touchy subject, something Nigel Robinson, from Hull in the U.K., is learning the hard way, ironically after trying to be sensitive about it. Robinson was trying to download some music — how, exactly, isn’t clear — but instead of music he discovered that, somehow, he’d accidentally downloaded some child pornography. After making the discovery, instead of deleting the images and maybe wiping the disk to be safe, Robinson made a move that’s either courageous or stupid and called the police to report the event. That’s why he’s been barred from unsupervised visits with his own daughter for the past four months.

Kenton Varda, a software engineer for Google, is very into LAN parties. You might think you are into LAN parties, or that you know a guy who is really into LAN parties, but compared to Kenton Varda, you are not even close to having the slightest affinity for LAN parties. You see, Varda had a house built specifically to be awesome for LAN parties. A super sexy LAN party dream house, if you will. For starters, the house has 12 game stations that can fold out of the wall for easy access, ensuring that no one has to bring their own rig. Already, this sounds infinitely better than any LAN party I’ve ever been to.

When Nokia introduced their new dubstep ringtone, I talked a lot of smack about the ringtone business and now it seems that I stand (moderately) corrected: The ringtone business is still worth a cool $2 billion. Somehow. Peter Kafka of AllThingsD seems to be one the one who dug up the interesting tidbit while looking over Gartner’s newest numbers. The ringtone industry, oddly listed as “Personalization Services,” actually makes up a pretty big part of online music revenue worldwide. They make roughly 4x more money than subscription services like Spotify and Rhapsody. How are those numbers going to change if streaming services really start gaining traction? Well, hopefully in a way that involves less ringtones.

A few days ago, Google engineer Steve Yegge posted a lengthy-but-constructive and well-thought out criticism of Google’s approach to Google+ and their general inability to understand platforms. While it’s pretty likely that Yegge did not intend to share this post with the world, it was lucky for him that he decided to approach the subject respectably instead of with a profanity-laden argument full of ad-hominem attacks.

A lot of Yegge’s arguments revolve around relatively high-level managerial and project-planning concepts, but the heart of many of his points comes through. In the essay (it’s only fair to call it that instead of a rant, I think) he points out that Google tried its hardest to emulate the wrong aspects of Facebook and that Chrome developers are too strong headed and set in their ways, but also stresses the fact that he doesn’t think it’s too late. All in all, maybe it’s a good thing this has gone public, because the Google powers-that-be can’t ignore these issues now. They’ll either have to solve them, or convince themselves they don’t exist. Hopefully the former.

Read the essay, in its entirety after the jump. Warning: It is long.

Gaming tournaments are hardly a new thing. People have been playing video games against each other, tournament-style, since the dawn of time, or at least since the dawn of competitive multiplayer video games. You know what is new though? Offering a million dollars and upward to the winners. No, these aren’t Call of Duty tournaments or some other kind of twitch shooter, we’re talking MOBAs. If you aren’t familiar, MOBAs are Multiplayer Online Battle Areas, a style of game born from the Warcraft III mod Defense of the Ancients. For the launch of DOTA 2 (which is a confusing topic in and of itself), Valve is holding a DOTA 2 tournament (streaming live here) and handing out 1 million buckaroonies to the champ.

This isn’t the first time a video game tournament has had a “big” payout. Last year, GSL (Global Starcraft League) offered the equivalent of $500,000 U.S. in prizes, but that was over a series of tournaments where each grand prize was around $85,000 and runners-up around $25,000. Needless to say, this DOTA 2 tournament (which is based on an unreleased game no less) blows GSL out of the water when it comes to largest lump prize. But that’s not even the half of it.

A Taiwanese blogger whose name has only been released as Mrs. Liu, has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for saying that the Sichuan Flavour Beef Noodle Restaurant has noodles that are “too salty” on her blog. That’s not all she said either. In the offending blog post she also noted the presence of cockroaches and called the owner a “bully.” After finding out about this scathing review, the restaurant’s owner promptly sued for defamation.

During the hearing, the judge decided that while Mrs. Liu’s comments regarding the cockroaches were passable by virtue of being statements of fact, her comments on the noodles were out of line; she had only eaten a single serving of the noodles and was not in a position to judge the restaurant’s menu on the whole. She recieved 30 days jail time, two years of probation afterwards and was required to pay roughly $6,800 in damages in addition to being told to apologize. Noodles are serious business in Taiwan.

(via Telegraph.co.uk)