Dot coms are left scraping the bottom of the barrel, as Yahoo and Google hire all the A-List talent.

Hell, now Google is even interviewing _my_ friends, and offering them jobs! How low can things go!

link to business week article 'Revenge of the Nerds', which will probably be hidden behind a paywall soon enough, so here is the intro:

"Revenge of the Nerds -- Again Google and Yahoo! are hiring away hundreds of top engineers from high tech's most prestigious firms Some call it the "giant sucking sound" emanating from Silicon Valley. For others, it's a migraine in the making. But whatever they're calling the hiring binge at Google (GOOG ) and Yahoo! (YHOO ), just about everyone is a bit astonished at the fearsome force swallowing up some of tech's best and brightest."

"They have created a Willy Wonka effect," says James E. Pitkow, CEO of Moreover Technologies, whose former company, Outride Inc., was purchased by Google in 2001. "Engineers want to work on the coolest problems with the smartest people."

Perhaps the money quote for someone who, perhaps, isn't quite A-List cred..."While the Internet leaders snatch up top tech talent, that creates headaches elsewhere. Some startups, for instance, say the talent drain has made their own hiring more difficult."

"Museum to Let Naked People in Free"

"Vienna's prestigious Leopold Museum is usually a pretty buttoned-down place, but on Friday, some of the nudes in its marble galleries were for real."

,,, The money quote:

""We find a naked body every bit as beautiful as a clothed one," said Elisabeth Leopold, who founded the museum with her husband, Rudolf. "If they came only out of lust, we have to accept that. We stand for the truth."" The AP article

SF Gate has an article on the Mousetrap. Mark Perez's life sized mousetrap is cool.

We have pictures from the first time we went (well, the first time that we went on the right day...), with Maddy and Spencer. Spencer and I went to the County Unfair there while Heather and Maddy were elsewhere. Spencer won cool mutant stuffed animals. That was probably 6/12 or so when Maddy was in a syncro meet.