• Pew Internet releases its second Future of the Internet report. One finding: In the next 15 years, "Humans will remain in charge of technology." Oh good, I was afraid the Machines would take over. [Pew Internet]

Because the story that Hewlett-Packard's CEO was too "focused on getting the company fixed" to make sure the chairwoman didn't break it again is ludicrous, and because making comics is fun, here are more situations Mark Hurd can't handle because he's busy with his job.

Friends of Mark Hurd pulled off a beautiful spin job explaining to the New York Times why the Hewlett-Packard CEO didn't stop chairwoman Patricia Dunn and a whole team of investigators from digging up reporters' phone records and planning to plant spies at media outlets.

I am as tired of Rocketboom split-up news as you are.

Happy Birthday, TechCrunch! Happy Birthday, Dave Winer's podcast!

"Didi!" "Gogo!" "Come to my arms!" "Your arms?" "My breast!" "Off we go!"

I assume you've seen today's Dilbert.

Someone's been playing with Comic Life. A Flickr user named "Privateye" 'shopped up the shirtless shot of Naked Conversations authors Robert Scoble and Shel Israel. (That's JD Lasica's photo, first covered back here.)

From the Mailbag:

She draws from Toronto, but illustrator and cartoonist Patricia Storms has identified just the right superhero pair to save sensitive, intellectual New York men from utter and complete emasculation: The Comic-Book Novelists!