Good Morning's bright humor

One of my favorite moments each morning is scanning the headlines from Good Morning Silicon Valley. John Paczkowski pens this wicked, arch look at the top companies' tech news each workday, with plenty of humor embedded. Much of it appears in the headlines for each of the four or five items in the e-mail/blog. For example, a story about Google's ploy to enter the search engine derby in China — by way of censoring searches on things like "democracy" — got this headline: It's like watching little Anakin grow up to be Darth Vader. So much for not being evil, Google.

There's so much hubris, posturing and vapor-work going on in the computer biz. GMSV, run by The San Jose Mercury News (known as the Merc out in the Valley), is a great deflator. You can browse the the high tech lampooning at the GMSV blog, along with real reporting, as well as sign up to get a reminder e-mail in your box each workday. Even if you subscribe to a boatload of e-mail newsletters like I do, this will be the funniest one you read about compters.

One wonderful bonus of each GMSV e-mail: A link to something offsite, but just as funny. For example, Google's grab at the Chinese market, as well as the rolling over by Yahoo and others, is the subject of this Flash cartoon — an ad for iRepress.