You could waste 10 minutes reading the Seattle Times piece on Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's internal memo and the company's fight against Google. But you, Mr. Smarty Pants, will spend 30 seconds on the Valleywag recap:

Readers of the New York Magazine (ones who don't read Slate, the New York Times Styles, Forbes, the San Francisco Chronicle, or Wired) now know there's a boom on. Writer Kurt Andersen spends three pages (well, the last page is two lines, like the last page of a dictated-length term paper) telling the same story as the other papers, but with the cluelessness with which the New York media glitterati always approach the Internet. It's like seeing USA Today redo a trend piece, but without the humility. So spare yourself the read and use the Valleywag Lazy News Edition.