Our readers were upset. AT&T wrote us quickly after the story hit, attempting to clarify their position and do general damage control. They explained that the TOS was a result of their corporate mergers and that they "do not terminate customer service solely because a customer speaks negatively about AT&T." Still, the statement didn't mean much because the TOS still gave them the right, and even implied the intent to limit customer freedom of speech.

Now AT&T has written us again, informing us that the TOS will change:

We are revising the terms of service to clarify our intent. The language in question will be revised to reflect AT&T's respect for our customers' right to express opinions and concerns over any matter they wish. And we will make clear that we do not terminate service because a customer expresses their opinion about AT&T.

Curt is raising money for an African AIDS awareness program, and so far, every Valley notable that he solicited (except for Odeo's Evan Williams) ignored his e-mail for two weeks. But, says Curt, someone showed the list of non-responders to Hot or Not co-founder James Hong (#15 on the list).

James (pictured) wrote Curt to explain that he plans his charitable donations through 10 over 100, which James founded. Members pledge to give 10% of their yearly income over $100,000 to charity. So cheers to James, and boo to the rest of you — especially Denton.

Earlier: Internet Millionaires to African AIDS Babies: Drop dead! [Valleywag]
10 over 100 [Official site]

As a matter of fact, I sent the prior art I had to the folks who were in legal dispute with Amazon in Australia.

The reason I didn't disclose it on the web is because patent attorneys advised that, because of the way the patent system is set up, the patent owner gets first crack at revising its patent to include the prior art if there is a re-exam. You therefore want to keep it in reserve for a lawsuit.

Gawd, this is all so 1999. Rebuttals can go in the comments.

Earlier: Tim O'Reilly don't astonish no one [Valleywag]

The flack: Kay Luo
The firm: Simply Hired, marketing director
The pic: Kay Luo [Orkut]
The juice: Her dog is friends with TechCrunch blogger Michael Arrington's. Internet friends, anyway.

The flack: Dina Freeman
The firm: Yahoo
The pic: Dina and Lesley [Flickr]
The juice: Her Yahoo 360 profile's employment gap from 2000 to 2002 hides a secret Dina is too humble to admit: She spent the entire two years rescuing kittens trapped in fires and babies stuck up trees.

The flack: Nathan Tyler
The firm: Google
The pic: e-mailed
The juice: Already declared the hottest man in Google, this flack left the company but still works as a PR consultant.

The flack: Carlos Odio
The firm: ShopWiki, publicist
The pic: e-mailed
The juice: Says a co-worker: "Here at ShopWiki.com, the ladies want to be with him and the men all want to be him." Rowr.

The flack: Jaime "Jinks" Le
The firm: Network Appliance
The pic: e-mailed
The juice: Jinks's whole office is bummed that she just got married. Best wishes, of course, to her husband, the lucky dog.

The flack: Tiffany Frye
The firm: Apple (PowerSchool division)
The pic:Tiffany [MySpace]
The juice: What can I tell you that you don't already know? She's one of those people with the fully fleshed-out MySpace profile (Dear Tiffany — me too! Seehowmuchwehaveincommonlet'sgetmarried!)

More, more, we'll never be satisfied. E-mail tips@valleywag.com by Tuesday morning with your nominee.

More nominees: Snacky or Flacky [Valleywag]
Part of: PR Valleywag Hotties: Snacky or Flacky? [Valleywag]

UPDATE: Dear Apple PR: Don't hate on Tiffany! It was Valleywag's call, not hers, to put her in the contest. E-mail editor @ valleywag . com to discuss with us directly.

No confirm has come so I went looking in the obvious place.

I rang a number reputably belonging to him. The man who answered cautiously denied being him. The voice I heared sounded old enough. I vagualy recall hearing an interview with him some years ago and the voice seemed familiar. So I went and found a recorded interview. I do believe the two voices were the same.

With the caveat that the phone voice was a little muffled and I cant be 100 pc sure the number is still valid, it would appear that he is still at large.

A scrap of evidence, but a red flag in the light of no forthcoming confirmation of the Spam King story.

Earlier: Scoop: DOJ jails Spam King! Alan Ralsky might rat out a massive hacker / spammer network [Valleywag]

Big-time blogger: dude
you suck
URL
this is fucking bullshit
it's a shill, sent to you by a PR flack
that deserves some smackdown
here's a hint:
- note the domain of the person that sent that tip in. they work for MSN
- the ebay bidders are all zero or have negative feedback. They were probably made up for the fake auction
- I would bet dollars to doughnuts that someone at MS' PR agency thought this was a great way to get the word out in a viral way, by duping some bloggers into doing their work and promoting their stupid event.

He's right. But hey! I was indie and snarky about it! Surely my subversive antics undermine the, uh...metanarrative...of the hegemony...across the enterprise?

Earlier: Cocktails with Ballmer and Gates, $760 on eBay [Valleywag]

(The good bits are too small to read, so click it for the full version.)

Developments since the chart: Stefan taped the crash, pretended he was a cop, and this week pled not guilty to charges of grand theft (for stealing the not-paid-off Ferrari and a Benz).

Gizmondo flow chart [Game Revolution]
After flying in Ferrari, felon tells a tangled tale [Chicago Tribune]
Earlier: Stefan Eriksson arrested, still a big Ferrari-crashing loser [Valleywag]

WiFired was chosen as the favorite neologism in the Valleyspeak Contest. Kevin wins $240 for iTunes and a YoyoPop for the iPod (not a sponsor, they're just cool).

Second place was Exa Grubb's "Typerventilating: Rapidly sending instant messages. Having a panic attack via AIM." She wins everlasting happiness.

Not satisfied with five pages of new words? Feast your vocabs on these late entries:

Hotsquatting: "Borrowing" open wifi connections wherever they are found. [Rick Robinson]

Bee break: The act of sneaking off to the bathroom in the middle of dinner to scroll through one's BlackBerry. [Daily Candy]

Googolo: Short for "Google Gigolo," which is any guy who tries to date or is currently dating a Google girl in order to exploit the free cafeteria or to have some sort of connection to Google so that he can boast to his buddies about it. [Vivian Tan]

Beta Fish: Viciously competitive entrepreneurial software developers who cannot occupy the same market without fighting. [Vivian Tan]

End of: Valleyspeak voting round [Valleywag]
Part of: Valleyspeak Contest [Valleywag]

Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if you're viewing this in an RSS reader, click through to view in your Javascript-enabled web browser.

Vote early, vote often, and remember: using fake words makes you superior.

Part of: Valleyspeak contest: Coin a word, win $240 of music [Valleywag]

budite: A technologically backward person still listening to music on that old portable CD player instead of an iPod with earbuds. [David Brown]

Gushroom Effect: The gush, awe and fan-base increase proportional to the size of one's or a company's estimated wealth. [Anonymous]

Tubastic: Wonderful or superb, remarkable, worthy to be broadcasted on YouTube. [Dan Tam]

Rapples: Alley reporters who make a living following our favorite Cupertino company. [Alexa Smith]

Web2.0MFG: Undefined. [Ginevra Kirkland]
Web2.0 RLY: Undefined. [Ginevra Kirkland]

Sext Messaging: Sending salacious text messages to somebody, replacing phone sex. [Dianne McGunigle]

'Spacing Out: Instead of putting the coversheet on your TPS report, you spend your whole afternoon stalking your ex-girlfriend and writing haiku comments on MySpace. [Darren Lepke]

Now the best Valleyspeak will compete for your love (and for over $200 at iTunes). Voting begins later today.
Part of: Valleyspeak contest: Coin a word, win $240 of music [Valleywag]

Blogamy: Having more than one blog at a time. [Bill Green]

Wikilene: Like Maybelline cosmetics for wikis. Dressing up one's entries with strategic verbiage in order to puff up the ego. [Ethan Kaplan]

IMbush: A coordinating attack using instant messenger to beat the truth out of a third party. I admitted to lying to my boyfriend when he and a friend who knew the truth IMbushed me. [Maureen O'Connor]

iPud: Most 'casters. [John La Bouff]

Cruff: Anything web related that sucks, a combination of crap and fluff. Dude, Shoutwire is cruff man. Digg is king. [God]

Betamuff: An attractive virgin or an attractive young woman thought to be naive in the ways of sexual activity. Hey Dude, check out that betamuff over there. [God]

Blush: A crush on a blogger — a person you've never met but whose blog you read. [Natala Menezes]

Earlier Valleyspeak: Valleyspeak: Prelim round [Valleywag]
And: Valleyspeak: Prelims 2 [Valleywag]
Part of: Valleyspeak contest: Coin a word, win $240 of music [Valleywag]

6A property Live Journal has its own sign, flashed by Andrew Anker and 6A VP Anil Dash (who can't keep his still):

Meanwhile, Googler Brett Lider gives love to the Information Architects (a sign in use since '02):

Enough, people. Any more of this and an actual gang will come up to SF (there can't be real gangs in San Francisco, can there?) and pop some caps in our collective asses.

Photo 1: Friendly gang sign [Alaina B on Flickr]
Photo 2: LJ [Alaina B on Flickr]
Photo 3: More web gang signs [Every Breath Death-Defying]
Earlier: One more @%!*$ gang sign [Valleywag]
Earliest: Blog-wiki gang wars [Valleywag]

This is in no way an encouragement of such ludicrous ironic activity. Nor is it a provocation of WordPress rival colleague Six Apart. Do NOT craft a 6A gang sign, photograph it, and mail it in.

Photo: WP Reprahzent [Kevin Bjorke on Flickr]
Earlier: Blog-wiki gang wars [Valleywag]

Dot Mom: The woman who has a husband whose money she's using from his Web 2.0 startup to buy the Escalade and keep the nanny around 24/7, even though she doesn't work. [Rick Dobbs]

Fooky: Having very poor implementation and/or concept to the point of not being usable. Often recognized by all except the founder. Bill thought his idea was great, but we all knew it was FOOKY and wouldn't last. [Makinde Adeagbo]

Blemeworthy: Worthy of being propogated via blog. By all accounts, Jude Law and Sienna Miller's makeup sex was certainly blemeworthy. [Michael Krantz]

Typerventilating: Rapidly sending instant messages. Having a panic attack via AIM. [Exa Grubb]

Technorazzi: Photo saturation of a tech event, so much so you can generate a 3D flythrough based on a tag. [Rick Abruzzo]

BetaMax: Signing up for as many mystery beta memberships as possible. Even if you have no idea what it does, why it's better than email, or even where the signup button is. All that counts is your "Member since" date was in the beginning months before {cough} everyone got an account and ruined it. [Rick Abruzzo]

Meanwhile, the readers at our dark big bro' Consumerist have coined "Hallopropism" and "Jihadvertising."

Keep blogging, commenting, or e-mailing your words. Remember, there's $240 for iTunes (and a toy) on the table.

Part of: Valleyspeak contest: Coin a word, win $240 of music [Valleywag]
Prelims 1: Valleyspeak: Prelim round [Valleywag]

WiFired: Getting thrown out of an internet café for spending 4 hours 'working on your startup' after buying one small mocha. [Kevin Marks]

San-Franinsular: The uncomfortable anomie San Francisco hipsters get when they come down to the Valley for a geek event, caused by the sunshine and available parking. [Kevin Marks]

Mutual blogsterbation: When two bloggers blog about how great each other is. [Scott Case]

Blamethrower: The flaming of the guilty when projects go bad, and the accompanying Dragonslayer-esque deflection of blame. [Randy Hollingsworth]

Pornanoia: A condition that causes the afflicted to demand the same level of secrecy and fear, exhibited by closing blinds, wanting secret codes and tracking the movement of authority figures, that the average twelve year old exhibits before displaying his pilfered playboys. [Tedward]

Bloatism: "Technical" descriptions or phrases used in conversation or postings that repeats something already stated; "Multiply gives you an easy way to share all kinds of digital content, including photos, blogs, videos, music and more, all in one convenient place: your own personal web site. With Multiply, you can share and discuss your stuff with everyone in your "social network," and also be alerted whenever they have something new." [Rob Blatt]

Blook, flook, blauthor, bleadership, bliterature: Blog equivalents of the original names in books (and, in the case of flook, films based on books based on blogs). [Susan MacTavish Best, whom we hope is kidding]

Part of: Valleyspeak Contest: Coin a word, win $240 of music [Valleywag]

First off, there's the crash itself. Valleywag's chain-smoking brother Jalopnik caught pics of the carnage — the torn-off passenger compartment, the streak of debris — left after Stefan's Ferrari ploughed into a telephone pole and split apart.

Then there's the supposed video of the crash — someone said Stefan had a camcorder on the whole time.

And there's the mysterious second passenger — or, as Stefan claimed, the driver. Stefan said a German man was driving him — but did he just need to get out of a drunk driving charge?

That's another thing — Stefan was confirmed as drunk on the scene, and his alibi — the supposed driver — wasn't on the scene at all.

Meanwhile, Stefan flashed a card that identified him as a cop — kind of. A while back, he'd installed security cameras on public buses. In return, he was made a deputy anti-terrorist police commissioner, complete with business cards.

That didn't stop two men from Homeland Security from interrogating Stefan at the crash site. But Stefan was let go —

— uninjured, according to early reports. Now CNET mentions that he was bleeding from the mouth when the cops first found him.

In any case, his arrest this weekend wasn't for drunk driving. It's a grand theft case, because Stefan doesn't own the car. He was leasing it and had recently stopped paying for it. Looks like he illegally shipped it over from the UK. Same with his wife's Benz, which was impounded in March.

Thus goes the story of the tech executive fired after his mob-connection convictions were outed in the Swedish press. He's being held without bail, and who knows if he'll end up being deported, but wherever he goes, can someone keep an eye on the boy? With one good paparazzi on his ass, Stefan (bonus notes: gun clip found near the crash site! Gizmondo maker of really stupid gaming device!) could earn himself his own Gawker Media blog.

Photo: Associated Press
Earlier: More dirt on the Gizmondo Ferrari wreck [Valleywag]
Former game exec arrested in Ferrari crash [CNET]
An arrest for theft in Malibu mystery [SF Chron]
Ferrari Case Continues to Widen [LAT]
From the Wag's big brothers: Gizmondo Executive Goes to Jail, Does Not Pass Go, Does Not Collect $200 [Gizmodo]
And: Woohoo! High School Poop on the Brokeback Enzo Man! [Jalopnik]
And: Dumb Gizmondo Exec Loses Another Exotic Car [Kotaku]

That was over fast. Yahoo's talent acquisition lead says this Tom Cruise poster is fake.

Jason Calacanis is just the next in a line of Netscape kings. Former Netscape exec Susan Mernit blogs, "It seems like Netscape has had 5 strategies—and almost as many GMs—in 5 years." So it's a real pass-fail test for Jason: fix this broken little division, or show he's just another schlub.

Federated Media Publishing sticks up a tech portal page. Commence countdown to angry non-member backlash.

Earlier on Valleywag:
Tom Cruise Audits Yahoo [Today]
Netscape is the new Digg [Thursday]
FM Publishing might add a portal page [Feb 24]