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One of Valleywag's eternal would-be contibutors, who tirelessly forwards us his precisely HTML-encoded attacks on Amazon and its founder Jeff Bezos, sent this little nugget about the Bezos family's literary lives.

Kiss me, kill me, link me, flash me! Guest writer Peter Kazanjy explains why MySpace's new Flash tomfoolery makes YouTube just a little more fucked.

In the war of the social bookmark sites, Digg is the good guy and Netscape is the bad guy, right? According to this reader, Digg is a hive of scum and villainy, and if Netscape becomes one too, it's all the fault of outside marketers. Shane Coffey reports on the covert scam scheme threatening to ruin social bookmarking.

Hot on the heels of Valley hotspot #1 is the second in our series of meatspace site reviews. Larry from The Dating Report explains how to pick up an intern in downtown Palo Alto's roomy bar and grill.

When it comes to making useful friends in Silicon Valley, it's not what you know, it's where you eat that counts. Pricey pancake house Buck's of Woodside is a good start (at least for spotting venture capitalists), but it's not the only Valley spot for eager networkers. Valleywag will help you navigate the cafes, bars, and restaurants to see and be seen.

Whatever resident Microsoft-maligner Chris Coulter (a Man Without a Blog) does during the day, it left him time to compile a massive list of Microsoft's current messes. One suspects he's actually counted #1 through #31,760.