PandoDaily is all about transparency—while rival startup rag TechCrunch takes a more literary angle with its industry cuddling, Silicon Valley bully Sarah Lacy wants to be clear that she's in the business of tech PR. And finally, she's getting the thanks she deserves.

If you needed further that proof that Burning Man is now just SXSW: Desert Storm, how about the Playa's own paean to Facebook?

I'm very sorry to report that Y Combinator founder Paul Graham has decided to dig in his heels about the correlation "between founders having very strong foreign accents and their companies doing badly."

No one likes flash deal sites anymore: the fad is over among people who buy things, and the ripoff is apparent for people who sell. We all want out—except those stuck running the sale operations, and an internet meme lady from several months ago.

Statistically, the answer is almost certainly no. I'll bet you there's no bed-that-looks-very-much-like-a-sex-swing, or in-house chef, either. If only you worked at Dropbox.

Last Friday, Valleywag published a post about the tech sector's increasing abuse of the term “culture fit” as a way to discriminate against potential hires who don't match the pattern of a successful startup employee. It prompted an outpouring of responses from readers about their own abysmal experiences with the euphemism.

Dear Miss Disruption, I’m a thirty-five year old married man. My mother-in-law thinks I’m not good enough for her daughter. She never has a kind word for me. She never insults me to my face but she’s always making off-hand “jokes” about how I’m not “manly” or how her daughter “married a woman."

Since Google Glass launched to our awe and horror, the company's co-founder, Sergey Brin, hasn't been spotted without a pair. He's placed himself atop the privacy-eroding project, publicly, and inside Google's secret labs. Maybe it's because he's fucking the Glass marketing manager, Amanda Rosenberg.

The man with one of the most recognizable faces in tech (behind the most recognizable homepage in history) has split from his wife of six years, 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki, AllThingsD reports. Surprise: he's been dating a Google underling.

The makeover success streak at Betaworks is bordering on witchcraft: after pulling Digg out of oblivion, coming to the aid of mourning Google Reader users, and wasting millions of productivity hours with Dots, Instapaper joins the 21st century with a new design. It's good!

For every child that dreamed of one day becoming a "a financially embattled thousandaire," Trump Soho hotel has just the thing.

In light of recent controversy over how startups ought to select their membership, former Tumblr editor-in-chief and current VP of programming at Blip Chris Mohney weighs in.

If necessity isn't the mother of invention, it's at least the mother of some inane DIY nonsense: Brit Morin, damned to an eternity of glue-gunning for sins in a past life, drew inspiration for her latest project from her startup's new digs. And this time, it's helpful—are you tired of walking through glass doors, too?

To explain the rise of "the sharing economy" made of startups like Airbnb, Uber, and TaskRabbit, The Verge looks to . . . the decline of serial killers. The two would seem to correlate about as well the growth of location services and the decline of horse-driven buggies. This has been a gentle reminder that regular killers can kill too.

Paul Graham, the brains and investment personality cult leader behind Y Combinator, is very vocal about what he doesn't like. Foreign accents are a no-no—but as a buried blog post from 2005 shows, the great part about running a startup is that you can let your prejudices run wild.

Jenn Allen is sticking with her allegations of rape and assault against TechCrunch's kingpin emeritus Michael Arrington, despite a defamation lawsuit over the claims. Now we know when it's all going down.

These days, "it takes an equity event (or two) for an entrepreneur to even afford to stay [in San Francisco]," says Louis Gray head of Google Developers Live, who predicts "an odd phase of the inner city in reverse, with the less privileged fleeing to the outskirts and commuting in to work with those who've already hit it big."

Nathan Hubbard, former top dog at Ticketmaster, a corporation that's made itself a giant out of price gouging, egregious fees, and general consumer-fucking is Twitter's new head of commerce, Bloomberg reports. Let's hope he brings none of his prior business experience to the fresh gig.

Zuck promised more details on how much of your online life Facebook hands over to the government, and he's starting to deliver. Bonus: we're not just getting The Government, but dozens of governments around the world. Guess who Facebook is working with the most?