Why did Yahoo's Gary Gale Twitter about a Wi-Fi network labeled "Valleywag" at Yahoo's quarterly all-hands meeting? If I worked for the New York Times, I'd give you all some blah-blah-blah about how we don't discuss our reporting methods. But I run a gossip rag, so I'll just play coy. We did gather that Yahoo CFO Blake Jorgensen was asked about the company's pending layoffs of 10 percent of the workforce.Yahoos at the meeting were told that the job cuts would come after Thanksgiving. And the severance? Jorgensen said the company would "do right by Yahoos" — and referred to the legally mandated notice period required by the WARN Act. Translation: Yahoos will get 60 days' severance, because it's the law. Oh, and there's no point in cancelling the holiday parties, because they've already been paid for. After the all-hands, Gale and other Yahoo employees proceeded to an Oktoberfest party.

· Here's a fresh and intriguing concept: Matthew Perry falls off a bridge (no wait there's more) and becomes a teenager again. How will he approach high school? First kisses? Getting his license? The possibilities are endless! · Did you miss Ellen's comments today about Sarah Palin's crusade against gay marriage? It moved us to the point of making us want to find a nice lesbian and settling down. · Warner Bros. was found not guilty of copyright infringement in a $40 million lawsuit that claims We Are Marshall ripped off a documentary about the same college football tragedy. Approached for comment, Marshall star Matthew McConaughey smiled his high-wattage smile and offered reporters a morsel of the most delicious beef they've ever tasted. · "Alyson Hannigan Is Pregnant!" Sorry, brah. · Mr. Phil is getting sued by the memorabilia dealer who just put O.J. away, for editing his interview to make it seem as if the dealer was agreeing with the talk show host's incriminating questions about the case. We realize this is just a civil suit, but wouldn't it be nice if one armed hotel ambush put both O.J. and Phil away?

Robert Thomson is known to be fashioning a more global Wall Street Journal. Thus far, the most striking example of this was when the managing editor sent hustling distributors to hand out copies of the Journal throughout London at the outbreak of the banking meltdown last month. But no one thought the former Financial Times man's ambitions would end there, and they haven't. In a sign he'd love to reconquer his old hometown, Thomson just announced the promotion of up-and-comer Bruce Orwall to chief of the London bureau. Anonymous sources told blogger Nikki Finke the move was coming last night; we've got the freshly-emailed memo after the jump.

Oliver Stone is keeping everyone waiting today at Slate, where he's set to engage Bob Woodward and a few other reporters over the facts and slip-ups threading his new film W. Thing have remained mostly civil so far — no Taser jokes or Christian Bale casting rumors — though a few factual liberties have set off a bit of protest in the ranks. Thankfully, while they wait for Stone, Lionsgate now offers a pleasing historical reference for the rest of us. Behold — W. For Dummies.Or, officially, W. — The Official Film Guide, an obsessive, somewhat addictive gathering of footnotes for amateur scholars ("14. Cheney - Unitary Executive Theory") and culture mavens ("80. W. loved Cats) alike, crammed with supporting details and citations behind some of W.'s more out-there moments. Like "W. on Non-Alcoholic Beer":

Look On My Works, Ye Mighty: In a move perhaps intended to quell an imminent fanboy revolution, Zack Snyder & Co. have softened the blow of Watchmen's supposedly revised ending with a brand-new poster and second trailer. The poster's great, but we're a little concerned about Rorshach's enhanced, Spidey-like jumping powers in the new trailer. Two hours and forty-three minutes of that might go a long way. Click through for a bigger look at the lobby art. [Coming Soon]

In its third-quarter earnings call, Amazon.com executives say they expect sales between $6 billion and $7 billion for the December quarter. A consensus of Wall Street analysts had predicted $7.05 billion. The stock is down 14 percent. [Silicon Alley Insider]

[A note about listings: If you'd like to be featured in To Do, please send us your event the morning of, subject heading: "FOR TO DO." We'll do our best to squeeze you in.] · Music Round-Up: Club NME at Spaceland, The Neighborhood Bullys, Dogweed, and Bollweevil are at The Echo, and Ryan Calhoun, Arden of Eden, and Amilia K Spicer are at Hotel Cafe. · John C. Reilly's Variety Show offers an evening of—well, we're not exactly sure, but we know there will be a variety of it—at Largo, hosted by the Oscar-nominated actor. · Japanese filmmaker Hiroshi Teshigahara's 1966 film The Face of Another—about a "a burn victim [who] gets a face transplant"—screens at Culver City cafe/art space Royal/T. [via Flavorpill]

Jason Calacanis took time out from his mailing list to blog about firing a baker's dozen of his Mahalo staff. The very same brilliant, hard-working, antifamily people he said he'd never compromise on. Today's featured commenter is sggrf, who wonders out loud on whether Calacanis might turn the episode into conference fodder:

Just when we'd managed to shake our uncontrollable addiction to Lostpedia, brand-new footage from the upcoming Season 5 of Lost has hit the internet. What do we learn (after an interminable recap of previous storylines) about the island hijinks we'll be seeing come January 2009? Sayid gets a gun! Hurley gets a gun! Kate gets a gun! Probably even the baby gets a gun! As is par for the course with Lost, the footage only raises new questions; specifically, where is the return of Michelle Rodriguez (and her vibrator)? And, perhaps most importantly, is Jack's missing chest hair still in the clutches of the smoke monster? [The Lost Vault]

Mahalo founder: "Tough times, hard decisions." Zillow founder: "Difficult times, difficult decisions." Seesmic founder: "Tough times. Tough decisions." The only thing easy in these times is what to headline your post about the employees you just laid off. Also, make sure to note that you are sad.

Our noting of this morning's Page Six story about a death in the Roosevelt Hotel's pool and an alleged failure to drain its water—resulting in Lindsay Lohan's first direct brush with death since the approximately 75,000 others she experienced before entering Cirque Lodge—elicited a response from a concerned hotel spokesflack, who wanted to set the record straight on exactly what transpired. It's after the jump:

At last, the Googlephone is in the wild. But what else lurks as Google lurches into the wireless world? A photo of this giant robot, based on the logo for Google's Android operating system, was fittingly captured by a T-Mobile G1 phone running Android. Can you think of a better caption? Leave your suggestions in the comments, and the best will become the new headline. Yesterday's winner: LychorindaAristaeus, for "The face of a $747 strike price." (Photo by ericajoy)

While it wasn't hard to see some of today's blowups coming, we were unprepared for the latest feud to hit Hollywood: Brady Bunch materfamilias Florence Henderson versus resurgent Dancing with the Stars hoofer Cloris Leachman! The 82-year-old Leachman has paso dobled her way into America's hearts over the past few weeks with her patented brand of cussing and cleavage, but to fellow Dancing vet Henderson, that simply isn't how its done! She spilled on her anti-Cloris crusade to Life & Style:

Online auction house eBay is self-banning the sale of ivory and ivory products on its website — prompted after animal welfare groups investigated trading in animal products from endangered species. Elephant ivory were the most common and eBay is saying it will do its best to stop the thousands listings of animal goods but only after January of 2009. Because corporate goodwill still needs to wait after the earnings report. [Los Angeles Times]

It's 13 days until the election, and while Defamer Decides for you, kick back and peep these shows about incestual/quasi-necrophiliac romances. Get Grandma in the living room, she'll want to watch, too! WATCH Pushing Daisies [8 PM, ABC] - David Arquette guest stars as a socially-challenged suspect in a murder involving a friend-for-hire agency. Please watch this show. Please. As much as we enjoy fabulously meta-awkward episodes of critically-acclaimed but low-rated shows, consider it your duty to keep those writers writing PD rather than cranking out specs for Knight Rider.

Cindy Adams, the endearingly batty New York Post gossipeuse, is mad at Jimmy Wales, the cofounder of Wikipedia. Her beef: She complained about her Wikipedia entry to him two months ago, and he has done nothing. She's so mad, she has found words that rhyme with wiki, like "sticky" and "icky." She has also done investigative reporting about Barack Obama's Wikipedia entry, discovering it that it is now "14 pages long." We think that means she had one of her assistants print it out. Cindy, Cindy, Cindy. That is not how you get your Wikipedia entry edited.Here are your options: You can spend thousands of hours editing Wikipedia entries to boost your credibility in the online community, and then pursue a tortuous quasi-legal process for months to change a single word in the entry. Petty-minded volunteer bureaucrats will oppose you at every turn. Or, if you want to make it simpler, you can just bribe Wales with money or sex. But anyone who thinks merely whining will do the trick is deluded. (Photo by David Shankbone)

Frank Addante, CEO of the Rubicon Project, a Los Angeles-based online-advertising startup, mocks himself so you don't have to. Another pointless ad network? Clueless execs? Gullible venture capitalists? His latest video, made to introduce himself and his company to attendees at The Lobby, a Hawaiian tech-dealmaker junket organized by venture capitalist David Hornik, embraces all the possible criticisms one might make of Addante. Except for this one: He has enough spare time on his hands to make videos and go on a thinly disguised Big Island vacation. That's the real joke, in case you weren't getting it.

In a sneak attack befitting the kind of malcontent who would dare despoil America's slutty sweetheart, FBI agents this week apprehended the man they say hacked into Miley Cyrus's e-mail account and posted scandalously skin-baring, kiss-blowing, shirt-gnawing private photographs. The feds brought a search warrant to the Murfreesboro, Tenn., home of Josh Holly, 19, who watched them cart away three computers and a cell phone — thus forcing the admitted hacker also known as TrainReq to find alternate means of spilling his virtually unabridged story to Wired.com. And are we ever glad he did.After all, we might never experience the geeky, naughty rush of shattering security protocols everywhere from MySpace to Gmail (and then bragging about it later). But when we've got a dumb-ass as spectacularly candid as Holly sharing his road map with us, it's like we can almost smell the SWAT team outside our own door:

Hey we've reached the insane "Hillary Clinton killed Vince Foster and she's a lesbian" stage of wild far-right delusion. You heard that Barack Obama had an affair and crazy Michelle Obama shipped the mistress to an island somewhere, right? Hey, did you know Obama's real father was a communist? It's true, because some blogs found some photos of a naked lady that they are pretty sure is Ann Dunham, Barack Obama's mother, and they used brilliant CSI-style photo analysis to determine that the photos were taken by Communist "Frank," Obama's mentor. This is all proof that Obama is a secret commie.

A high-profile New York magazine company handing control of its flagship print property to a Web executive would be a great story about the transformation of media. Normally, writers at Forbes would be all over it — if it weren't happening to them. Yesterday's rumor about Forbes Media merging the magazine and Forbes.com — two distinct operations, housed in separate offices, whose managers don't get along — and tapping Forbes.com chief Jim Spanfeller to run the combination has provoked a collective wave of head-scratching from current and former Forbesians. Could it happen? One writer tells us that Forbes management has denied the rumor so unconvincingly that workers there are all concluding it must be true. "I work at Forbes. I'll be the last to know," says one. He disputes the idea that Forbes and its website don't work well together, giving several examples of Web and print writers crossing the line — but the fact that those are notable, rather than routine, just highlights Forbes's lack of cooperation. His note: