by Beth Gottfried

  • Will the HP pretexting mania ever end? Chairwoman Dunn being a weapon of mass destruction, next thing you know we'll all find out HP obtained crucial phone records of crucial Al Qaeda operatives. For the meantime, however, her target's just some poor reporter's dad. [ZDNet]
  • Psycho girlfriend attempts to off her man's MySpace friend for being female and pretty. After viewing a mug of the girlfriend, we get it. [The Smoking Gun]
  • More Facebook announcements. With founder Mark Zuckerberg's multiple Facebook changes, the man commands more media attention than film stars that land the cover of Vanity Fair for posturing with Asian infants. [BusinessWeek]
  • Someone needs to tell Microsoft exec J Allard that the Miami Vice/Pirates of the Carribbean press junkets are now over. You deserve to look better, J. Throw the earring away and step away from the razor. [Engadget]
  • Finally a techie stops speaking in bubbles and starts explaining numbers, specifically the suffix 2.0. [Rough Type: Nick Carr's Blog]
  • Another start-up goes bust for profit and surprise, we saw it first on Ebay! [Ebay]