1. You know those cool, new $1,800 MacBook Airs, billed as the world’s thinnest laptops? Newsweek technology columnist Steven Levy lost his recently, and he figured out his wife must have scooped it up and put it out in the recycling bin with a pile of newspapers. Strangely, he later discovered his copy of “Halo 3,” back catalog of PC World magazines and TiVo remote were also missing.
2. Internal Microsoft e-mails, made public in a lawsuit, reveal a number of senior executives sharing the general public’s displeasure with the company’s vaunted new Vista operating system. On the other hand, they still love their chocolate-brown Zunes.
3. People who don’t like what the General Motors Hummer represents — even the smaller H2 model — have been sharing their displeasure at the FUH2 site (fuh2.com), a collection of pictures of people extending a middle digit in the direction of the vehicles.
4. Chicago Web developer Aza Raskin (Humanized, Songza) is now selling Bloxes, sturdy cardboard bricks he developed that can be used to build office furniture, room dividers and just about anything else not involving water. Operating theory: Why shouldn’t adults be allowed to play with Legos?
5. A new Facebook application, VooZoo, lets users send each other clips from Paramount movies (followed, of course, by a link to let you buy the DVD). Can’t wait to try it. What’s the name of that Paramount movie about the people who have way too much time on their hands?
