• A stay-at-home-dad with no time to himself wastes what precious sleep he has debunking some theory about outhouses, TiVo, and how Google CEO Eric Schmidt relates to any of the aforementioned.[Passing Notes]
• Face of the Flying Spaghetti Monster discovered in patent diagram! [ZD Net Blog]
• We hope this tech writer is actually black, because that makes it okay, right? Right? [Nigga Know Technology]
• When an article starts out, "I worked in a lot of crappy factories as a youth, so I'm very sympathetic to the workers at Apple's iPod factories in China," it's safe to assume it's sprinkled with patronizing hyperbole, not unlike those stories of an oppressed Brad Pitt dressing up as a chicken, standing out in the LA heat, working for El Pollo as a struggling actor. [Wired]
• We're upping the August Capital ante. Whoever gets onstage at John Battelle and O'Reilly Media's Web 2.0 event with a fake startup wins a free year of Valleyschwag. [John Battelle's Searchblog]

— co-written with Beth Gottfried

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