Bizarre. I clicked a link from Dave Winer recommending that a journalist be considered for hire—and not only did it turn out to be a former colleague of one of my former advisors, the second tweet in her feed turned out to be dissing the wife of one of my former editors.

Per the St. Louis Post-Dispatch story on Woot closing up shop:

This may sound like a cheap shot, but in fact I'm genuinely curious:

We have "high-tech incubators"?

Huh. A former colleague of mine just got called out by Anil Dash (for this headline).

In Bizarro World, Mike Mongo may be my doppelganger. The evidence:

⋅ Our names both start with the letter M.
⋅ I'm a limeonaire. He claims to be a humannaire.
⋅ I own epigrammatic.org. He owns (but hasn't yet used) ecopathic.com.
⋅ I'm on MetaFilter. He's on MetaFilter.