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If you haven’t heard there’s something of a game today. Of course, if your surfing the Internet right now instead of enjoying a beer and chicken wing stupor you probably don’t much care. Let’s get a new week of tech mediocrity kicked off with the play by play of what came before:

• Vista launches…
• …and most don’t care…
• …Especially Romania, who’s President, Traian Basescu, told Bill Gates that pirated software was responsible for his country’s vibrant technology industry. And you thought that Bill Gates ran off the set of the Daily show fast…
• But don’t be fooled. Vista is revolutionary. With Vista’s voice recognition technology Microsoft has created an entirely new way of being hacked. You no longer need to know arcane bits of code to destroy a computer - with Vista you only have to talk to it.
• Apple’s iTunes (now illegal in Norway due to its own monopolistic behavior) currently doesn’t work on Vista. Apple’s advice? Just keep the OS purchase on hold and we’ll get back to you. It’s not like they knew that Vista was coming out this past week… or that they had six years to do something about it.
• It was revealed that Verizon had first crack at the Apple iPhone two years ago and they passed .
• John Jantsch from Duct Tape Marketing tries to get senior execs at LinkedIn, the professional equivalent of a pyramid scheme, to explain what it’s good for.
  

  They responded by telling me they were pretty busy but my chances of getting to participate would improve if I used their system to get referred to one of their executives.

• Technorati launches a Digg clone named WTF. Even Technorati observers are asking the same thing. The sound heard immediately after the stunned confusion is Technorati further sliding into obsolescence.
• Sweden launches embassy in Second Life. Attracting those who participate in Furry S&M is apparently a priority for their tourism industry.
• On NewTeeVee there’s a piece about Amanda Congdon, a person that everybody thought was a big fish; turns out she was big only because she came from the teeny tiny pond. As the piece by Steve Bryant says:
  

  If you’re looking for a reason why Congdon’s reporting has taken a turn for the retarded lately, scuttlebutt has it that she’s still shellshocked from her move to L.A.

  Shocker #1: Congdon’s reporting? Shocker #2: a turn for the worse? The former host of Rocketboom has always been painfully forced, at best. People keep saying she’s a brilliant, articulate person foiling the image of the vapid ‘pretty face behind a desk’. But dumb humor + smart blonde = dumb blonde.