In the same vein as — but much funnier than — the site that publishes censored BBC forum comments, the Wikipedia Knowledge Dump archives Wikipedia entries that are about to be purged. Most posts to date are amusingly bald-faced self-promotional entries, such as one about some business author or a would-be famous video blogger or sex furniture. Others are innocuous lists — songs about hair, or celebrities who've undergone LASIK treatment. Current personal favorites include drunk blogging and the "Hologram Theory" of 9/11, which proposes that the World Trade Center towers were struck not by planes, but by cruise missiles cloaked in sophisticated hologram technology.

Ever since the Google/YouTube buyout was at its rumor stages, Mark Cuban wouldn't shut up about how it was going to be a legal land mine, and while we have yet to see a lawsuit against Google, he has been kinda right as takedown requests are happening more frequently than pre-buyout.

Oh, Internet, you are so cute. Over the weekend, the Button-down-wearing White Guys of the Net made their blatantly disclaimered April Fool's Day gags:

Great party list for SXSWers tonight. Start at the Lifehacker party, hosted by our slick big sister, at The Side Bar (that's 602 East 7th). From 9 to 11, drinks will flow and Gawker Media stars Joel Johnson (the Gizmodo/Consumerist/Gawker-tech-group genius) and Gina Trapani (the aforementioned Lifehacker's lead) will entertain. You might even glimpse some of Gawker's behind-the-scenes folks.

TechCrunch lays out an exclusive spread of leaked Google Calendar screenshots. And it looks like...a calendar. Surprise! Calendar apps are about as distinguishable as Nickelback songs.
TC also hears "serious acquisition rumors" about PubSub after the news subscription company replaces its CEO. Who's buying? Probably not Fox.
UK newspaper publisher Johnston Press can't beat its ad drought. Craig Newmark to be blamed by noon.
Microsoft starts testing its Google killer, the least likely David-and-Goliath story since the pro baseball strike.
Our big sister Lifehacker has news on Microsoft's Origami handheld and Google's "total storage" plan in a daily news roundup.
Still waiting for inside confirmation of Jason Calacanis' Netscape takeover. Anyone who leaves the AOL meeting without a job, we're here for ya.

It's the "I'm working on a screenplay" of Silicon Valley: Every regular Joe's got a dot-com startup, or at least a great rough draft they've been tweaking forever (sometimes entire weeks). But a budding entrepreneur needs to research a bit before popping some flipmeat on the barby.