Get Ur Geek On

We're currently waiting for our gut instinct -- that Yahoo has, in fact, purchased Flickr -- to be proven right on Tuesday. And by "gut instinct," we mean we shook the old Magic 8-Ball and got "All signs point to yes."

In the meantime, we've got another rumor floating around the internets, which we found via a trackback (Thanks, John!) to that post. None other than Reuters is reporting that Apple is rumored to have interest in purchasing the beleaguered TiVO, which would just make a whole crapload of sense. What is the Mac Mini if not the hottest set-top box in history? And what does this mean for the video iPod, seeing as how TiVO recently released their "TiVO To Go" functionality? Both companies saw a boost to their stock today.

In more Apple news, it looks like the bloggers who dished on "Asteroid" will get their day in court to defend themselves and the rights of bloggers everywhere. We want our journalistic privilege! And our Apple rumors! Of course, if Judith Miller and Matthew Cooper go down, journalists may lose their journalistic privelege, rendering it all something of a moot point, no? In the meantime, we had fun tonight reading the email exchange between blogger Jeff Jarvis and Berkeley's own Bill Keller, New York Times Executive Editor, duke it out via email. Check out the analysis from Susan Mernit and Gawker (we just had to put those two in the same sentence).

Finally, it looks like eBay could get dinged for tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars if they lose a class action suit being brought by a Pennsylvania man accusing them of price-gouging. When the bidding on an item got to his maximum bid, he was sent an email saying that he "might be outbid" if unless he raised his maximum bid, which he did. Of course, eBay points out that it's entirely voluntary, and spokesperson Hani Durzi says, "Based on what we know about what's being alleged, it appears the plaintiff completely misunderstands the functionality of the eBay bidding system."