Best comment of the week award (winner gets half the Webvan profits) goes to sarahka:

Last week, I capriciously decided the public reached a consensus that the semi-anonymous hot Larry and Lucy pics were taken by a good friend of the Stanford grad and her billionaire Google boyfriend. Now a tipster says:

San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom on choosing Google or another candidate to blanket SF with wifi:

Google Finance: It's sexy, it's dynamic, it's a new toy. Let's abuse it.

Larry Page's brother Carl, already a mega-millionaire after selling eGroups to Yahoo in 2000, just went public with his latest company, Handheld Entertainment.

The Hollywood Valley invasion is just a swap: the Valley's taking over Hollywood, one clever indie flick at a time.

An amateur photo sleuth commenting on Search Engine Herald lays out, in excruciating detail, the red flags raised by the Larry Page/Lucy Southworth makeout pics. "Zaza" makes a few excellent (if creepy) points:

In the interest of jacking up the post count fully appreciating the love of Lucy Southworth and her boyfriend (that guy, wossname, can never keep these billionaires straight) Larry Page, here's another of the photos sent to Search Engine Herald this week.

Google co-founder Larry Page and his Stanford girlfriend Lucy Southworth, reportedly en route to Hawaii last fall, have an on-jet makeout session. Search Engine Herald scores photos the New York Post would've killed for. Check out their other pics and see if your first thought is "OMG, Larry's cheating with Nicole Kidman!"

It's like a party with an open candy store: Forbes published its whopping 793-member billionaire list, with all the maps, photos, and self-congratulatory interviews such an event requires. Above is a map of billionaires in the U.S. (the world is viewable here but why do you care about anything outside the Valley), which shows San Francisco as third behind New York and L.A. That's no good.

GuruFocus writer Geoff Gannon brilliantly explains Google's financial future in a way we lowly gossips can understand:

Google's CFO announced that the company's revenue growth is slowing. Investors (who assumed revenue would climb until it could only be expressed in scientific notation) sold, sold, sold. The daily stock loss for the Google founders:

Lucy's been outed. The lady who won Larry Page's heart was named by the New York Post as "Lucy Southworth." Sez the Post, the bright young Stanford student has degrees from the the University of Pennsylvania and Oxford. She's done medical work in South Africa and "wants to better the world."

Another Valleywag rumor confirmed — Google launched its Google Page Creator today. This is the rumored Trogdor project — basically Geocities 2.0.

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.)

A caveat to Gals of Google: Everyone's writing that the cute ones are in Adsense. But one tipster says to check the executive assistants too:

Finally, a photo of Larry Page not smiling! The Holy Grail of Google coverage was discovered at Technology Entertainment Design 2006. Before now, every damn Larry pic had him beaming.

Oh man, ROCK ON. Maybe it's the billions he's losing in GOOG's price drops, but Larry Page is reportedly wreaking havoc.

John Brockman (pictured) pulls together a real A-list for his upcoming "Edge Foundation Billionaires' Dinner." Invitees to the foundation's private dinner (only 35 guests will get in) include Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page and their CEO Eric Schmidt.

Scott McNealy made a few good jabs at his frenemy Microsoft. The Sun CEO's best gag was implying he wants to shoot Bill Gates in the face. Ha! Ha! Such friendly jests!