• Is it just me or does CNET's president look like a younger, hipper Mark Foley? If that guy IMed you, would he make you a little horny? [CNET]

CNET employees loved CEO Shelby Bonnie, according to the San Francisco Chronicle (and a CNETter confirms to me that there was loyalty since he'd been at the company since Day One). So it was a shock when he seemingly fired himself this week over overseeing improperly backdated stock options.

• McAfee's president and chairman-CEO resign after the company finds a $100 to $150 million discrepancy in the accounting of its stock options grants. McAfee notes that CEO George Samenuk is retiring, while the board fired president Kevin Weiss. [NY Times]

• A must-read on Workspace Design for computer programmers. [Joel on Software]

Today in "We're very disturbed that AOL released millions of private search records, but here's what we dug up" news, CNET made up for the New York Times' boring old-lady story by digging into the really weird AOL users and guessing where they live.

Sure, the former Rocketboom host is only interviewed in TIME's online version, not its print edition. But bloggers will forget that and make a big deal about this. And it is a big deal, since this was the third interview with Amanda Congdon published last night.

CNET thinks Apple will buy Nintendo. Oh yeah, that's totally true, don't you think? For so many reasons:

Nick Carr, long-time flamebaiter turned linkbaiter, declares Wikipedia dead. (No fair pointing at the very live site!) We can't let Nick be the only one gunning for Steve Gillmor's coroner job. So in the interest of upping our own fake authority, here's Valleywag's table of what's wagged, sagged, and body-bagged. Apologies to Wired — that is, we're so very sorry.

Buying the homely-looking food site Chowhound (she must be funny or something) wasn't enough for CNET. Continuing its chowdown (ha! ha! get used to it 'cause it's the only joke the tech zines will make tomorrow), the tech-news juggernaut announced a web version (still in the oven — ok, kill me) of its freshly acquired foodie magazine, Chow. Who knows if Chow will even have a print version this time — with the magazine already kaput, CNET was really just buying editors. From the internal memo:

I thought venture capitalists bent over to keep their entrepreneurs happy, not the other way around.

Someone runs up a false Digg item about a Google acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Turns out that not everything linked from Digg is true. Huh. Who knew? In any case, the lesson here: Digg may be big, but it's not exactly at stock-manipulating level. [Silicon Valley Sleuth]
So tech site CNET bought dating site Consumating in December, and it picked up food site Chowhound just this month. Anyone have an idea what the plan is here? [Chowhound interview]
Ouch. Tech blogger Om Malik's great Andrew Mclaughlin (pictured) quote ("The FCC sucks") comes undone when the Google senior policy counsel writes to Om:

Right. Valleywag's been called "ValleyWag" too much to ignore. A quick guide to Valley capitalization, spacing, and punctuation:

Another Gillmor Gang podcast, another hour and a half of white guys saying "um." If your ears aren't bleeding within five minutes, you'll at least want to walk in and SHAKE these guys when they get distracted and start talking about Darwinism. Blogger (and Tinfinger CEO) Paul Montgomery says just what we're all thinking: cut it down! And Steve, shut up!

Culled from Business 2.0, here are the dumbest moves made by the Silicon Valley geniuses.

In recent articles by CNET's Greg Sandoval and Martin LaMonica, the reporters referred to "wrote in a recent blog" and "posted a blog." Which suggests some editor at CNET is imparting a house style. And it's wrong. I'm tired enough of the word "blog" as it is, and in our crazy, mixed-up world of new media neologisms, but when I update a blog, it's with a "post" or "entry." Blog is short for "Web log," and refers to the collection of posts, entries and comments over time — yes, the hoary Chicago Manual of Style has set up rules for citing blogs, as has the AP.