As if the princely perk of being shuttled to and fro to your campus palace weren't enough, free gadgets and job offers have also been laid at the feet of Google employees in Saratoga as they begin their morning commute.

After Chad Hurley and Steve Chen invented YouTube, they walked away with a bundle of cash and got to work making new websites. Unfortunately, these websites were the exact opposite of YouTube, in that no one wants to use them—now another is headed to the junk pile.

The all-male directorship at Twitter is rewarding itself handsomely for running a business that makes no money, Footnoted reports. The salary for attending board meetings, while your company bleeds money? Now up to $16 million per year.

Mahbod "Vyvanse" Moghadam, noted Yale graduate, is making a career of acting like a minor lunatic. Telling Mark Zuckerberg "suck my dick," among other dubious internet acts, hasn't kept Moghadam's startup from attracting many millions. And it's nothing a little brain surgery couldn't fix, he says.

"Beer. Dance floor. Shot bar. Food truck. Girls." Nerds. Obliviousness. Poor judgment. Skewed cultural views. Social regression. Bros. MySQL. Crushing it. A party atmosphere combined with everything that makes the rest of the world hate you, Silicon Valley: this party is not smart.

The 22-year-old with more millions than years on Earth is on a roll: Lucas Duplan now has a grey-haired Netflix exec working under him, and the support of big-time investors. The company still wont say a word about what it actually does—but its patent applications don't need permission to talk.

Yesterday evening at a demo day in Midtown, Jorge Cortell, the CEO of a healthcare startup and a self-described "hacker-hacktivist" took a creepshot of a female attendee's high heels and posted it his public Twitter account with the following caption: "Event supposed to be for entrepreneurs, VCs, but these heels (I've seen several like this)... WTF? #brainsnotrequired"

This week's New York Times magazine offers up an interesting explanation for the gender gap in programming: It's a pop culture problem.

If the monotony of college roommates getting engaged is enough to push you away from Facebook, the social network has a new stance on horrific violence that might draw you back in: beheadings are allowed.

Reuters reports that Silicon Valley venture capitalists "have some 2007-style swagger back in their step." The good tidings come courtesy of the latest Silicon Valley Venture Capital Confidence Index, which indicates that "confidence levels have returned to pre-recession levels among investors in the San Francisco community.

The merging of America's traditional Haute Asshole cohort and the new economic engine is happening faster than predicted: just look at how many Silicon Valley fixtures were at last night's San Francisco love IPO between the West and Kardashian families.

Salon's Andrew Leonard has a very thoughtful profile of Ro Khanna, a Democratic Congressional candidate in California and "Silicon Valley’s chosen one." Tech execs like Ron Conway and Marissa Mayer hope Khanna will keep taxes low and government as minimalist as Jony Ive design. It's just the beginning of Silicon Valley's march to Washington and Khanna is its beta test.

Yahoo's newest blogger sat down for a brief interview with Forbes, and he's bursting with energy and candor—who knows which camcorders he'll help us set up at his new corporate home? The future is a thrill. He won't, however, talk about any of his ethical problems.

"Entrepreneur" is rapidly becoming our culture's worst and most diluted term: we're not really sure what it is anymore, but we know that people who describe themselves as such tend to really suck a lot. The next step is to teach our kids to be little capitalistic jerks, too.

Soylent is a tough sell, as it's impossible to try it and not think about eating sperm. But it's a cult hit among a certain Silicon Valley subset, which swears it's actually a viable alternative to the venerable human pastime of chewing. It sounds (is?) crazy, but not too crazy to get a big new funding round.

What if the perfect liquidity event for Silicon Valley was not a blockbuster IPO, or an acquisition that paid out at some insane multiple, but a literal exit from the United States of America? No more lumbering bureaucracies, no lobbying incumbents, no "petty" laws, no obstructionist unions. That's what a Stanford lecturer and genetics startup cofounder Balaji Srinivasan proposed at Y Combinator's annual startup school this weekend.

David Pogue, veteran non-reporter, alleged wife-attacker, and lover of publicists, is leaving the mothership for Marissa Mayer. It may or may not have to do with everyone at the Times hating him.

You'll have to ask Ben Grossman, Head of Global Operations for Twitter Media, to repeat this poignant remark about San Francisco's new transit strike—because he deleted it. But not before we saw it.