Yahoo Will Forget Everything It Once Knew About You
The whole "cadre of Iraqis arrested in Baath Party revival plot" story was sort of scary until we found out that the plotters were mostly traffic department employees. [ AP ]
Since Cerberus didn't manage to recoup its entire investment in Chrysler through a US government bailout, they're now more willing to entertain merger talks with GM. However, as a wise man once said, "Take two rocks, tie 'em together, and throw 'em in a lake. You think they sink any slower?" (Assume both rocks are spherical and this is a frictionless lake.) [ CNN Money ]
Yahoo's new privacy poll means that the company will start deleting your searches for "Dick Cheney XXX meat diaper sex" after 90 days instead of 13 months. [ New York Times ]
The shoes that were once so memorably hurled at Barack Obama by a brave Iraqi journalist have been destroyed, by haters. [ AFP ]
New York voters favor either Andrew Cuomo or Caroline Kennedy to fill Hillary Clinton's Senate seat, because they have never heard of a politician who wasn't named Cuomo, Kennedy, or Clinton. [ Business First of Buffalo ]
Pervy cardboard cutout-groper Jon Favreau works in Starbucks while he writes Barack Obama's inaugural address. [ Washington Post ]