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pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/valleywag/2008/10/fallback.jpg” align=”left” hspace=”4″ vspace=”2″ width=”497″ height=”378″ style=”display:block;float:none;” /In theory, Fondue’s two BlackBerrys will reset from Daylight Savings Time back to PST automatically this Sunday. In practice, she’ll be sorry she ate the manual. Ah, if only we, too, were Jason Calacanis’s bitch. The CEO of Mahalo, a bluster-powered search engine, treats his dogs better than his employees. Will Facebook join a href=”http://valleywag.com/5070144/the-facebook-layoffs”Mahalo in laying people off/a?/p pNot if CFO Gideon Yu a href=”http://valleywag.com/5072509/facebook-cfos-excellent-middle-east-adventure”returns from the Middle East with a fistful of petrodollars/a. In New York, Googlers’ a href=”http://valleywag.com/5070227/google-new-york-hit-by-cost-cuts”stomachs now rumble as snacks get cut back/a. Tesla Motors, the electric carmaker, is feeling starved, too mdash; of cash. It’s a href=”http://valleywag.com/5071621/tesla-motors-has-9-million-in-the-bank-may-not-deliver-cars”down to its last $9 million/a, with only vague promises that investors will pony up more. Scary! a href=”http://valleywag.com/5071482/the-5-scariest-people-in-silicon-valley”Don a mask/a and put a fright in someone else for a change.em(Photo by a href=”http://flickr.com/photos/jasoncalacanis/2987755732/in/set-72157608518044741/”Jason Calacanis/a)/em/p br style=”clear: both;”/
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pCommenter a href=”http://valleywag.com/people/imag/”imag/a had a trenchant take on why Elon Musk’s a href=”http://valleywag.com/5072392/tesla-ceo-admits-his-carmakers-running-out-of-cash#c8659962″Tesla Motors is running short of cash/a:/p blockquotephe problem is Elon’s approach to innovation. Innovation means looking carefully at where preceeding approaches have failed, and trying to improve on them. It usually doesn’t mean pretending that the same rules don’t apply to you (although, in the lone case of PayPal, they didn’t, because of the internet)./p pI think it’s a case of people assuming that intelligence can replace wisdom. In the end, experience does matter; history repeats itself; rules can be carefully changed only if you knew what they were to start out with./p/blockquote br style=”clear: both;”/
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pAfter flight attendants called passengers “chavs” mdash; British slang for rude louts mdash; and criticized the airline’s safety practices on Facebook, Virgin Atlantic fired 13 of them. See? Facebook layoffs! [a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7703129.stm"BBC News/a]/p br style=”clear: both;”/
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pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/valleywag/2008/10/2985574877_224d27f61c.jpg” align=”left” hspace=”4″ vspace=”2″ width=”375″ height=”500″ style=”display:block;float:none;” /Got plans for Halloween? Some of the best parties have already happened, Flickr’s photo streams tell me. This military pair had a gay old time in the Castro at Booty Call. Don’t try heading to San Francisco’s queerest part of town tonight, though; the City is still obstinately trying to ban Halloween from the neighborhood. Can you think of a better caption? Leave it in the comments. The best one will become the post’s new headline. Yesterday’s winner: a href=”http://valleywag.com/5071534/yahoo-starts-halloween-early#c8642767″WagCurious/a, for “Pirates of Silicon Valley.” em(Photo by a href=”http://flickr.com/photos/kevingoebel/2985574877/”Kevin Goebel/a)/em/p br style=”clear: both;”/
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pscript type=”text/javascript” newVideoPlayer(”/googbama.flv”, 506, 423,”"); /scriptimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/stills/googbama.flv.jpg” style=”display:block;display: none;” /In exchange for his late-to-the-party endorsement of Barack Obama, Google CEO Eric Schmidt got a spot on Obama’s prime-time infomercial last night. Note how Schmidt explains his decision, made only after Obama took a substantial lead in the polls: “When I read his economic plan strongand saw the people endorsing it/strong, Warren Buffett, I thought, ‘This is the right plan for America.’” In other words, Schmidt didn’t endorse Obama until he saw it was popular with the right people, and might help Google get its search deal with Yahoo passed under an Obama administration. Brave! We still don’t think you’ll get that government job, Eric./p br style=”clear: both;”/
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pscript type=”text/javascript” newVideoPlayer(”/googbama.flv”, 506, 423,”"); /scriptimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/stills/googbama.flv.jpg” style=”display:block;display: none;” /In exchange for his late-to-the-party endorsement of Barack Obama, Google CEO Eric Schmidt got a spot on Obama’s prime-time infomercial last night. Note how Schmidt explains his decision, made only after Obama took a substantial lead in the polls: “When I read his economic plan strongand saw the people endorsing it/strong, Warren Buffett, I thought, ‘This is the right plan for America.’” In other words, Schmidt didn’t endorse Obama until he saw it was popular with the right people, and might help Google get its search deal with Yahoo passed under an Obama administration. Brave! We still don’t think you’ll get that government job, Eric./p br style=”clear: both;”/
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pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/valleywag/2008/10/forbes285cpm.jpg” width=”306″ height=”125″ align=”left” hspace=”4″ vspace=”2″Forbes.com, the online arm of the right-wing business magazine, is offering to pay blogs to run a political ad supporting a ban on gay marriage. The price: $2.85 per thousand pageviews. The ad advocates the passage of Proposition 8, a California ballot initiative. The blogs in question are part of Forbes’s Business and Financial Blog Network, an online-ad network which places ads sold by Forbes salespeople on independent sites. The network itself is run by Adify, an ad-technology company now owned by Cox, the media-and-cable-TV conglomerate. The ad won’t run automatically, according to an email from Sharon Gitelle, who’s a href=”http://www.forbes.com/fdc/business_contacts.html”listed on Forbes.com as a “membership” contact/a; bloggers must specifically choose it. Politics aside, a $2.85 CPM, or cost per thousand pageviews, is nothing to sneeze at in these tough economic times. Reached on the phone, Gitelle said, “I’m not talking to Valleywag.” So we know this much: She’s no dummy! Here’s the email she sent:/p pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/valleywag/2008/10/forbesprop8ad_01.jpg” class=”center” width=”575″ height=”663″ style=”display:block;float:none;” //p br style=”clear: both;”/
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pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/valleywag/2008/10/rickroll1.jpg” align=”left” hspace=”4″ vspace=”2″ width=”274″ height=”194″ style=”display:block;” /Some readers have told us a href=”http://valleywag.com/5071482/the-5-scariest-people-in-silicon-valley”our Halloween masks/a were a little too frightening. If you’re still scrambling to pull together a costume, here are four options that are more treat than trick. Best of all, you’ll be able to get what you need from your own closet./p pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/valleywag/2008/10/rickroll1.jpg” class=”left” width=”274″ height=”194″ style=”display:block;” //p pstrongWhat to wear:/strong Khaki jacket and black turtleneckbr strongWho you are:/strong Rick Astleybr strongHow to play the part:/strong Memorize “Never Gonna Give You Up.” You’ll be singing it all night./p pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/valleywag/2008/10/scoble.jpg” width=”274″ height=”188″ style=”display:block;” //p pstrongWhat to wear:/strong Shower cap, towel, iPhonebr strongWho you are:/strong “Naked Conversations” author Robert Scoblebr strongHow to play the part:/strong Engage everyone in conversation. Ask them if they want to get naked. Hope they don’t take you up on it./p pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/valleywag/2008/10/pete_cashmore1.jpg” width=”274″ height=”207″ style=”display:block;” //p pstrongWhat to wear:/strong Three-piece suitbr strongWho you are:/strong Mashable CEO Pete Cashmorebr strongHow to play the part:/strong Make sure you have a girl on each arm. Tell everyone you’re a blogger. Refuse to explain what you actually do./p pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/valleywag/2008/10/top_gun_goose_and_maverick-1_01.JPG” width=”274″ height=”179″ style=”display:block;” //p pstrongWhat to wear:/strong Jumpsuits and aviator glasses for twobr strongWho you are:/strong Larry Page and Sergey Brinbr strongHow to play it:/strong Maverick and Goose? So old media. With a fighter jet parked at Moffett Field, Larry and Sergey are the Valley’s new Top Guns./p br style=”clear: both;”/
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pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2008/10/custom_1225488540107_jumble_of_books_at_shakespeare_co.jpg” width=”340″ height=”255″ align=”left” hspace=”4″ vspace=”2″ /The a href=”a href=”http://parisparfait.typepad.com/paris_parfait/2007/04/antiquarian_boo.html”"lovingly jumbled piles of books/a at Shakespeare Co., the famous Paris bookstore, must madden Googlers. All that information, unorganized! In the wake of its $125 million settlement of a lawsuit filed by book publishers, Google is now thinking about turning its money-burning Book Search product into an a href=”http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/google-to-open-an-itunes-for-books”online store/a. This will end badly./p/a pRemember the Google Video Marketplace? Exactly. a href=”http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/video_marketplace.html”Launched months before Google bought YouTube/a, the video store required cumbersome copyright protections and was a nonstarter with consumers. Google closed the store last year, enraging the dozen or so people who’d actually bothered to buy videos./p pAnd Google’s Book Search operations are a disaster, overseen by Ramsey Allington, an unqualified IPO lottery winner who joined Google at the right time to get valuable stock options and social connections. He has a href=”http://valleywag.com/5069973/the-rotten-manager-behind-google-book-search”made a mess of his department/a, driving out qualified female employees by being a sexist boor. Publishers would do well to steer clear of Google until he’s gone./p pEven if Google Book Search is placed under competent management, I doubt it will succeed. Google lacks a merchant’s sensibility, trusting algorithms over salesmanship. But most people do not walk into a bookstore knowing what they are looking for. They seek serendipity mdash; a quality that Googlers, with their overplanned vision of the world, hope to eliminate. There is beauty in an untidy stack of books. But a Stanford MBA’s spreadsheets will never capture that./p pem(Photo via a href=”http://parisparfait.typepad.com/paris_parfait/2007/04/antiquarian_boo.html”Paris Parfait/a)/em/p br style=”clear: both;”/
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