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Loose Wires: Oh foo

• A compelling play-by-play of the goings-on at FOO Camp '06. We don't know about you, but starting the day watching Kevin Rose popping a zit at an Addictive Users seminar and ending with Moshe Cohen entertaining the masses with his zany clownish antics is well worth the privilege of being a Friend of O'Reilly. [Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog]
• Pictured: Esther Dyson, who hangs with more bigwigs than the Pope, talks to the men who own about 2.7% of all Lithuanian lifetimes. [Flickr]
• A once-rumored Oracle deal did not happen. Columnist John C. Dvorak now predicts a Sun-Apple deal. Ergo, Dvorak is a nutjob. [Wired]
• Limelight Networks is on the prowl for a new CEO. Apparently, they too missed the FOO Camp '06 invite, perhaps shunned because of that big ol' ugly lawsuit. [GigaOM]
• Don't fuck cell phone providers. Or carry on illicit affairs that are heavily documented by email exchanges. It's tacky, not to mention it'll cost you. [CNN.com]

Arson, for one: 10 reasons not to hire a Burner

So who's buying eBay?

To-Do tonight: Every time someone reinvents semantic folksonomies, do a shot

• No toil nor trouble at tonight's first Bubble Thursday in San Fran. While the crowd will be fun (Laughing Squid founder Scott Beale! Vlogger Irina Slutsky! The Technorati crew! Valleywag!) the tone won't be too bubbly — no open bar, much less chocolate fountains and corporate strippers. (Granted, if you give host Kevin Burton a twenty, he'll stuff it in his underwear. Honest.) [Upcoming, photo by Zach Stern]
• Don't sit in your living room reading blogs all evening. Sit in Liz Henry's living room reading blogs all evening. [Upcoming]
• Bulemics! Hang with the besuited boys of the "Futuristi)(onceptS Business Group Fremont Meetup Meetup"! [Eventful]

Radioshacked: It doesn't take a dot-com to bust people in style

Forbes ignores Silicon Valley in "America's Most Wired Cities"

"Disturbing blog on respected news site" of the day: "Screens"

Say hi to VentureBeat! Wait for it...wait for it...

Blogger breakdown: Spot Scoble at Google

• Ex-Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble may miss out on Burning Man, but he'll have fun visiting the Googleplex today with Googler Matt Cutts. Insert cruel "don't empty the snack room" line here, and send phonecam pics of Scoble to tips@valleywag.com. [Matt Cutts, photo by ~C4Chaos]
• Jason Calacanis tells everyone in the Internet industry, blog or die. Somewhere, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz is pumping his fist and shouting "Yessss!" [Calacanis.com]
• RSS pioneer Dave Winer says an army of unnamed people are pissed at publisher Tim O'Reilly. (And it's totally not Winer's bitter recrimination for not getting an invite to last weekend's exclusive "Friends of O'Reilly" Camp, nor the two men's ongoing battle since 2000.) [Scripting.com]

Morning news: Larry Ellison feels secure

• Oracle chief Larry Ellison will preach the security gospel to the choir at next year's RSA Conference. While some doubt Oracle's security expertise, everyone knows that Larry knows how to stay safe. [Silicon.com]
• The New York Times, um, "breaks" the story of Google CEO Eric Schmidt joining Apple's board of directors. [NYT]
• AnnaLee names the Argonauts who travel the world with the golden sheepskin, hunting for jobs anywhere but home. [CNET]
• Silicon Valley execs are more likely to talk up the future than other Bay Areans. Who knew? [Mercury News]