Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Oops: Microsoft Asks Some Laid Off Workers To Send Back Part Of Their Severance  —  Talk about adding insult to injury.  Apparently Microsoft has inadvertently overpaid severance to some of its recently laid off employees, and is now asking for some of the money back.

Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Twitter’s ‘suggested users’ get mammoth boost from new feature [UPDATED]  —  A sampling of Twitter’s “suggested users.”  —  Some high-profile Twitter accounts have been seeing astronomical jumps in the number of users subscribing to their profile updates — tens of thousands of new followers, in some cases.

Robert X. Cringely / I, Cringely:
Where’s Steve?  —  “The only thing worse than being talked about,” said Oscar Wilde, “is not being talked about.”  That has until recently applied in spades to Steve Jobs of Apple, a guy who, when I’ve interviewed him, has always asked what other people have said about him, “especially […]

James Urquhart / CNET News:
Ubuntu now has ‘cloud computing inside’  —  In a posting on the ubuntu-devel-announce list Friday, Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu, announced that Ubuntu 9.10 will be code-named Karmic Koala.  As usual, efforts surrounding the Linux distribution are divided between two target deployments, desktop and server.

John Mahoney / Gizmodo:
How To: Hackintosh a Dell Mini 9 Into the Ultimate OS X Netbook  —  I am typing on this on a 9-inch, 3G-equipped, almost-pocketable computer, running the best consumer OS money can currently buy.  It costs around $400.  Do you want one too?  Here’s how to get yours.

Jesse / A foot and a half:
Finally, A Use for Twitter  —  Sean informed me a few days ago that he had been following “The Real Shaq” on twitter.  —  “You realize that ‘The Real Shaq’ is probably a 5′4 White, 14 year old emo kid who’s getting his jolly’s from the attention, right?”  […]