Headlines that I thought were otherwise interesting today.

• Amanda Congdon leaves ABC: Mat Ingram has the best explanation so far — her considerable “assets” were special as a vlogger, but on a mainstream outfit, they’re quite … flat. Now, Ms. Congdon claims she’s got something great lined up, although it will only start “next year”. If everyone will still remember her … “next year”.
• Google Planning Multi-Terabit Cables To Cross Pacific Ocean: Actually, only one part of a larger plan for Google — the company that most people associate merely with search and ads — to build or acquire physical assets, so that it literally owns the bandwidth to fuel its future plans for world domination. [Do I *sound* like I'm kidding?]
• PirateBay Strikes Back: Wonder what the *real* result of an embarassing leak of internal emails last week from MediaDefender? Well, it turns out that your favourite p2p site (PirateBay) is using them as evidence of illegal activities, and is bringing a very familiar fight back *to* MediaDefender. I, too, love the pure schadenfreude.
• Smart People Can Be So Stupid: A popular MIT student claims that a taped electronic blinking device on her chest — while gripping a piece of silly putty — was merely “art”, after being arrested at gun point at Logan Airport, in Boston. Right. That’s about as real as the hair dye you’re using, honey.
• Google Continues to Pwn Search: … according to the comscore report for search in the month of August. Google pulls in 56% of searches, which is actually *up* a couple percentage points since the last report (July). Nothing else to see here folks, just Google doing its best to own search … keep it moving …
• Firefox Memory Leaks Evidence Open-Source Not Infallible? … merely the corollary of “Firefox continues to have memory problems even though the whole community is trying to plug those leaks”. Somewhere Bill Gates is having a chuckle, I’m sure.