Check out this Pakistani taxi dude here.

In a headline sure to make El Jobso’s head go ker-splat, All Things D has this story about how AT&T has “download speeds 67 percent faster than those of its rivals and greatly improved reliability and performance.”

Scott Adams blogs today that United Media may try and sell the licensing rights for Dilbert, Peanuts, and the rest of its licensing properties. He links to some totally indecipherable CNBC article.

More information here.

Don’t know if you’ve been following the little drama that’s unfolding for my very good friend Dr. Eric Schmidt, aka Dr. Strangelove. A few days ago the first-rate journalists at Valleywag uncovered a blog called Recovery Girl 007 which they claimed was being penned anonymously by an ex-journalist named Kate Bohner who also, supposedly, once had some kind of Tiger Woodsian connection to Dr. Eric Schmidt. On this blog Kate Bohner (real name? Ed.) referred to an ex-lover called Dr. Strangelove. This doctor was supposed to be friendly with Steve Jobs — so close, in fact, that he had shown Recovery Girl an early prototype of the iPhone, before it was released. Recovery Girl also described me as “just a stoned Jesuit priest lost in his garden.”

Now Valleywag reports that Dr. Strangelove has unleashed the fury of his lawyers on Ms. Bohner and forced her to take down her really wonderful site which described her journey through recovery from addiction to drugs. Valleywag points out, correctly, that this seems a bit hypocritical considering the way Eric is always going around touting the virtues of having all information flowing freely everywhere.

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The space shuttle landed late last night.  Says so right here. Sure looks smaller than normal.

According to this new study, it’s Amazon.  But judging by that grinning chipmunk below, you already knew that.

Have you been following this? Some kerfuffle about Eric Schmidt’s special friend and her blog, (cached version, hosted by, um, Google’s Blogger) and allofasuddentheblogwentpoofanditsnotthereanymore? Sounds like a Valleywag Special Edition© to me.

Vudu, Voodoo, something like that.  Anyway, Brad Stone of the New York Times (Brad Stone…where do I know that name from?) has the story here. Vudu is an online movie service, and this marks an attempt by the retail giant to get into that space.