The blogging power couple that conquered Metafilter (and some rag called the New Yorker) makes it official. Ex-SFers Jason Kottke and Meg Hourihan say "I do" tomorrow in NYC.

• "You can't out-slut a pussy full of Pam." Our Grandma used to say that all the time. [Jossip]
• Church of Scientology to buy Neverland? Well, it might be nice to see that place a little more normal. [Cityrag]
• Toby Young says Graydon Carter will be the next head of Paramount. Yep. [Defamer]
• Online sports coverage may be unreliable. Everything else online is completely, 100 percent aboveboard. [ Gelflog]
• Streisand to tour again. This is where the joke playing on the words "happy" and "gay" goes. [USAT]
• When Lee Kazimir learns that what Herzog really said was the German equivalent of, "Take a long walk off a short pier," he's gonna be pissed. [AP]
• Viewed from close up, Katherine Harris doesn't look at all scary or drag queenish. [Wonkette]
• And all along we thought that Andrew Sarris was boring the hell out of us with original prose. [The Reeler]
• Bloggers to wed. Is it just us or does the thought of bloggers having sex with each other make you want to take, oh, about a thousand showers? [Media Mob/NYO]
• Consumerist readers name Halliburton as the worst company in America. Next month, they'll name the color of the sky as blue. [Consumerist]
• The Bonsai Potato. Give us a break; it's Friday. We want to get out of here. [The Bonsai Potato]

Well of course Danny Sullivan already wrote his story, "25 Things I Hate About Google." When he posted his "25 Things I Love" counterpart at ClickZ today, it should have been clear he was repurposing a week-old idea from his own ClickZ site, Search Engine Watch — idea recycling is what we bloggers do. And he'd already carried that idea to the other side with a hate list.

It's fair, it's hard-hitting, it's "25 Things I Love About Google" by blogger Danny Sullivan. Sure, the Search Engine Watch editor will run 25 things he hates in his next column, but meanwhile he'll give some hero worship. But if you read between the lines you can see the real message — or the fake message that I made up:

Valleywag, in a vain attempt at reaching Wall-Street-Journal levels of inaccuracy, ran a non-item last week. Jeff Clavier, one of the SDForum speakers so unfairly accused of non-disclosure, sets me straight:

Forget Plazes, Dodgeball, and geotagging — it's impossible not to know where tech bloggers are. At this very moment:

Sometimes, after Valleywag reports on things, they keep happening. Follow-ups to a few recent stories:

Those bastards at "Those Bastards!" started their whole blog with a Dave Winer slam-a-thon; now they've upped the ante with the Dave Winer Countdown. They took the RSS-kinda-inventor at his word when he promised to stop blogging by the year's end.

• After two articles warning about its dangerous effects (sleepwalking, sleepdriving, sleepeating, appearing in Times pieces), the NYT editorializes against Ambien. Someone on 43rd Street must be fat, tired, and cranky as hell. [NYT]
• Blogger teaches you to Photoshop yourself into a picture with David Cross. Other option: Take a picture with one of the ten million guys below 14th Street who look just like David Cross. [Low Culture ]
• Manolo Blahnik thinks Sarah Jessica Parker "vulgarized his name." Just wait until he sees what happens to his shoes in the SJP-produced Jessica Cutler series. [Daily Transom]
• Writers demand money for blogging. Yeah, like there's a successful business model behind that concept. [Washington City Paper]
• Former recording artist Tom Robinson ("2-4-6-8 Motorway") thinks that the only thing wrong with James Blunt is that he's too successful. This explains why Tom Robinson is now a former recording artist. [The Guardian]
• Remember that hairy lobster that freaked everyone out last week? He's now an adorable plush toy! We're suddenly excited for the next Flaming Lips tour. [mediatinker]

Federated Media Publishing, the hot top-down (or bottom-up or whatever the new hot way to do things is) website network, closed its Series A funding round this week. Members like TechCrunch and GigaOM (and even FM Pub newbie Tailrank) pile on congratulations.

Michael Arrington, the hot new wunderblogger fueling Bubble Boom 2.0 on TechCrunch, left a fancy life in law for the infamously poor life that all bloggers supposedly endure. But six months down the road, he's concerned enough about his wealth to lock that baby down with Draper Fisher Jurveston-funded TrustedID.

Liquid Generation's James Kleckner has a scoop on MC Hammer's dot-com — a bigger deal than his blog. The humor site founder says that Hammer's insisting on using his old slogans on all the branding and ads — which, if he's fine with being Mr. Ironicpants, would kick ass.

Meg Hourihan dug up a pic (640x480 original) of her partner Evan Williams at Pyra Labs in their pre-Blogger days — ages before Google snapped up the little development company, and in the first golden age of idea whiteboards. Haven't tried calling that phone number at the top, but special love (and a comment account) to anyone with the nerve to do it.

Rejoice or cry. Dave Winer, inventor of RSS (disregarding the other inventors) and A-lister's A-lister in the Valley blog world, is gonna give up blogging at Scripting.com. "Soon, probably before the end of 2006, I will put this site in mothballs, in archive mode, and go on to other things."

Two non-Silicon Valley bloggers speak at SXSW today — Heather Armstrong of Dooce and Jason Kottke of kottke.org, who rule the blogosphere, Valley and off-Valley, from basement desks in Salt Lake City and NYC. Jason funded his blog through reader contributions; Heather through advertising. They're doing an overstuffed-chair interview (so Oprah!) now. Choppy highlights follow.

9rules designer/blogger Mike Rundle was quick to notice that business incubator Next Internet (covered here) borrowed a teensy bit (by which I mean all) of the site design from eternally-alpha-testing browser Flock. The two sites are uncannily twinlike — identical fonts, identical basic color schemes, and two toolbars you'd never tell apart. But should we assume there was theivery just because Next Internet is Flock's perfect doppelganger?

The O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (or ETech for the impatient) is in full swing today, after a rousing start on Monday. The event sold out ages ago, but through the magic of Scott Beale's photography, we can pretend we made it in. (If you want to pretend you met Cory Doctorow and he loved your sci-fi story idea, have that fantasy on your own.) Here are highlights from Scott's meticulous Monday photojournalism.

We have a feeling this will be a fierce fight — both Kimbalina and Trisha seem to have fan clubs. Well, here, I'll let you have at it:

In case you didn't catch it earlier (we didn't), Lot 49 built a thorough Google Evil Scale. Includes the wise corporate maxim, "Don't be an accessory to evil." [Google Corporate Information: Making Money]
A petition tells AOL to drop its new certified mail system (where users pay to get whitelisted and free e-mails end up getting spam-filtered away). Signers include the Democratic National Committee, Craig Newmark of Craigslist, the AFL-CIO, and others. Better plan: let AOL carry on, thus ensuring that the last poor fools using AOL mail will finally leave. [Dear AOL]
Blogger Michael Arrington, running from the hordes of TechCrunch party guests, may flee to London so his sixth party can actually fit inside the venue. [CrunchNotes]
A little groaning about Apple's less-than-fun Tuesday announcement. Bloggers can't decide whether to hate Apple for not changing the world again this month, or to hate each other for posting fake photos of an iPod Video. [Good Morning Silicon Valley]
Michael Arrington can't be as positive as he always sounds on TechCrunch, can he? Today's "Mike's true feelings" meter: How much distance is between him and the entrepreneurs he's always photographed with? For instance, Mike's keeping some distance from the Israeli businessmen pictured above (that's him on the far right). But that one overlapped arm is just enough to say "I won't run away. These guys have a chance." [TechCrunch]

Mega-blogger Guy Kawasaki lays out the Bozofication Aptitude Test that the the Valley's begging for. Browse the ex-Apple-marketer's test and take a point each for anything true about your company. Items include: