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Thanks @KaraSwisher! All Thing D visits the TWiT Cottage:

"The first contestant was a no-show," said Aaron Portnoy, manager of HP TippingPoint's security research team, and Pwn2Own's organizer. "And the other team wanted to work on their BlackBerry vulnerability. So it doesn't look like anyone will try Chrome."

At the Digital Hollywood Summit in New York today, Mr. Armstrong said, "Today is a difficult day because a lot of jobs are being impacted," but later on confirmed that AOL and Huffington Post will be hiring more journalists in the near future, increasing the company's editorial headcount from 50% to 75% in the coming year.

Go to a Best Buy and an Apple Store and watch how people respond to various devices. When they pick up an Android tablet, you can see their shoulders hunch and their brows tighten. Eyes dart. Fingers fidget. Certain other parts clench. When they pick up an iPad, they visibly relax. I see this phenomenon all the time.

Somewhere between 2-5% of your monthly broadband bill actually goes to bandwidth, long-time broadband industry analyst Dave Burstein reminds readers. While there's obviously plenty of additional costs beyond that -- such as support, lobbying, labor and marketing, there's also abundant new revenue streams (advertising via webmail, BVAS, selling your clickstream data, DNS Redirection revenue, charging to get around spam filters, targeted behavioral advertising). Burstein notes that the fact that bandwidth margins are about 90% is important to remember as ISPs try to convince consumers that Netflix bandwidth demand is unmanageable without low caps and high overages, or content company subsidies:

Sarah and her salad. Parislemon and his ipad2. (@ Firewood Cafe Gate A-12)

I just unlocked the "4sq SXSW Virgin" badge on @foursquare!

There are already too many geeks in Austin. (@ InterContinental Stephen F. Austin Hotel)