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Google launches comments on news stories ... but only for newsmakers. Is this PR's next greatest frontier? Or are they throwing out the signal with the noise? Some find this weird, others freaking nuts. Leave it to the PR guy to delicately call it really stupid. But the plan is certainly thorough - for instance, here's how Google will make sure that only the real tooth fairy gets to comment on tooth fairy-related news.

Just in time to help Google sort the true newsmakers from the phonies, along comes Spock, the search engine dedicated to doing searches on people, rather than places and things. Specialized verb and pronoun search engines are rumored to be in the works.

Wikipedia is convinced that I'm Canadian. Maybe someday they'll at least highlight that in red.

We've suspected it for a while, but Mashable has confirmed that online video is not a sin.

At last, a VC who pays cash!

Engadget hyperventilates all the way across the country on Virgin America's inaugural flight. I can't wait to join them.

Meanwhile the United States Air Force takes shipment of an airplane that could be used to terrorize office mates and neighborhood kids alike.

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