Sometimes mashups are better than the original. Take that one Girl Talk song that combines Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale” with Youngbloodz’ “Damn.” That’s petty great — and now we have the ...

Nick Statt was a staff reporter for CNET News covering Microsoft, gaming, and technology you sometimes wear. He previously wrote for ReadWrite, was a news associate at the social-news app Flipboard, ...