1. Perhaps the surest sign that Facebook has arrived: Creator Mark Zuckerberg and his girlfriend were captured outside a restaurant by the cameras of Web and TV gossipmongers TMZ. It’s also a sign that TMZ desperately needs a real celebrity to fall off the wagon.
2. On their MySpace page, a new band, Previously on Lost, offers recaps of the previous week’s episodes of the confounding ABC series in song form. I’ve listened to the first two tunes and, unfortunately, rhyming doesn’t make things any clearer.
3. HarperCollins will try making a handful of the books it publishes available for free viewing — but not downloading or printing — online. This is almost as revolutionary as a technology known as “the library.”
4. Half of British men surveyed said they would give up sex for six months in exchange for a 50-inch TV. And 97 percent of their partners, when told of the offer, said, “Deal.”
5. This spring, Starbucks will finally start offering free Wi-Fi in its stores, under certain conditions. You have to be an AT&T broadband customer, use Starbucks prepaid cash cards or be able to complete your online session in the time it takes a group of teenagers to order frappuccinos.
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