In another shocking development, it has been discovered that 40% of the people who board cable cars are not having their fares collected by conductors. Actually, this isn't that shocking considering it was discovered awhile back by Gavin Newsom, Private Dick. In another shocking part of the story, it was determined that the time and amount of crowding on a cable car can affect when and when not a conductor collects fare. ...

Patricia Dunn, ex Chairwoman of H.P. is now officially having the worst week ever. Yesterday, it was her starting chemo for ovarian cancer and now today, she just got indicted by the California Attorney General. Dunn was charged with four felonies:

"using of false or fraudulent pretenses to obtain confidential information from a public utility, unauthorized access to computer data, identity theft, and conspiracy to commit each of those crimes."

This HP story is getting crazier and crazier. Today, the NY Times is reporting that HP was thinking about planting spies in at least two publications to figure out what was going on. The idea was to either place undercover admin temps or cleaning crews at CNet and the SF office of the Wall Street Journal who would then do a bit of snooping and eavesdropping. Another memo uncovered mentioned planting HP spies next to certain people to tag along and investigate them. Wasn't there an episode of "Alias" like that where Sydney Bristow dressed up like an Office Temp complete with iPod and back tattoo to shadow some reporter only to discover they were really their long lost second cousin removed who supposedly died in a fiery motorcycle accident but really used it as a ruse to escape the Chinese? ...

>For those who haven't been following it, there's a real humdinger of a scandal brewing in LA involving Anthony Pellicano, Private Dick to the stars. Pellicano is in a wee little trouble with the Feds for wiretapping as well as various other shady activities that are considered illegal by the government unless done by the government, all in the name of his high-powered clients. How much fun is this case? The whole thing started because of shenanigans in a case involving Steven Seagal and the mafia. Other clients he's rumored to have had include everyone from Tom Cruise to Sylvester Stallone to Michael Jackson to O.J. Simpson to Hillary Clinton. And it just got director John McTiernan charged for lying to the Feds. So what does this have to do with the price of the Tea at Coffee Tea & Spice on Haight? Turns out one of his clients was rumored to be one Barry Lamar Bonds. ...