Apparently we're not the only ones with hope for Microsoft! Wired Magazine published an interview this morning with Mary Jo Foley, author of the cutely-titled book Microsoft 2.0, about the future of the company as Bill Gates leaves the day-to-day ops in the hands of Steve "I walked away from Yahoo" Ballmer. Her verdict? "It's dangerous for companies of any size to count them out. They're still good at figuring out how to come......

This week we'd like to congratulate the -ist network's Mother Hen, Gothamist's Jen Chung, who found herself a recipient of Wired Magazine's Wired Rave Award. If that doesn't sound terribly exciting, keep in mind another recipient was J.K. Rowling. Yep, that's right, the -ist network and Harry Potter now have something in common. Go us. Austinist has a chat with the ever-fashionable Golden Girl Rue McClanahan, and managed to catch some local fashionistas making......

--There's a wind advisory in effect for tonight. Good thing you haven't even lugged the generator back into storage yet. --A Wired Magazine blog found the Cthulhu movie former Seattleite Grant Cogswell worked on. They seem less than impressed, but there's some great speculation in the comments. --$10,000 reward for the kidney stolen from the Bodies exhibit? Hell, for that money it's almost worth to pop out one of your own and pass it off.......

Speaking of Violet Blue, she weighed in on the "Craigslist Experiment" over the weekend on her blog: When researching my sex books, I've placed CL ads just to get a random sampling or to get ideas; I post as female. Every time, I've received an overwhelming amount of troll responses with unsolicited photos. I have always wanted to do something with those responses and photos, as they are often offensive and sometimes even kind......