• DirecTV announces Project MyWorld, a TV show in which three young girls search for their MySpace friends in the real world. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, start your engines. [Mashable]

• Hewlett-Packard won't give George Keyworth a chance at re-election for the board next March, after the director leaked info to CNET, got investigated by chairwoman Patricia Dunn, and refused to resign despite his fellow directors' demands. Meanwhile, California's attorney general is investigating HP's investigation. Dunn, Keyworth, and former director Tom Perkins are exchanging barbs, each accusing another of violating their privacy. [Bloomberg]

• Gateway rejects an offer to sell its retail outlet from the former owner of eMachines, who also offered to buy the whole company. [MarketWatch]

Think Radio Shack employees had it bad getting fired by e-mail? Try hearing via webcast how many of your fellow employees will get sacked this season by Intel.

Has convergence claimed another life? A reader asks about the head of Intel's digital home division:

Today in unfortunate ad placement news: A CNET story on Intel employees working during the missile attacks in Israel. Below it, Intel compares its hardware and software to, well, a missile.

Oh boy, another list! The ink has hardly dried on Business 2.0 Magazine's People Who Matter list, and Wired Magazine has already trumped it with the annual "Wired 40" list. While Business 2.0 is just playing Truman Capote, Wired's list is a de facto investment guide for the casual midwestern techie. Some highlights:

The Merc News loaded up on quotes for its new piece on Intel's money-making crisis. And the paper didn't notice, but those quotes reveal the true problem with Intel:

ConFonz, a favorite Valleywag roving correspondent, reports again from E3 — this time, I suspect, from the hotel bar. It's okay, it was Thursday night and everyone was drunk. But just for fun, Valleywag won't proofread this edition of ConFonz.

¬ The Software 2006 Conference got all Web 2.0, with VC Ray Lane telling companies to go viral. An attendee puts it like this:

First Apple dressed Paul Otellini in a bunny suit. Then analysts gossiped that Dell would switch to AMD chips. Now Gateway brings Intel a new headache.

It's a laid back weekend — take in a concert, kick back, relax between conferences.

Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy (pictured, and doesn't he look cute and comfortable, and completely not posed at ergonomically disastrous angles) wrote an open letter to Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd, asking, "Let's converge [HP operating system] HP-UX with [Sun operating system] Solaris 10."

Slate published its 2005 Slate 60, the leaderboard for "competitive philanthropy." As always, the list of the top charitable donations and pledges includes a good showing from the tech industry.

You know those people who, during an uncomfortable moment, say "Awk-warrrrd..."? And that makes the moment so much worse? Well, CNN Money is that guy, and Intel's Apple deal is that uncomfortable moment.