Tellme who's your daddy...

Apparently Microsoft is, acquiring the search-via-voice recognition company for a billion dollars, mas o menos. 

(Does it really matter how much Microsoft pays for anything anymore? It's all monopoly money anyway. So they gave away a few million MSFT shares... who cares?! They can always print more!)

...and the venture capitalists rejoiced! (They haven't had much to celebrate lately, during Bush's "strong recovery". VCs are doing worse than at the depths of the dotcom crash! Maybe it's just me, but I thought the economy was supposed to grow or something. My bad.)

Congratuations, Microsoft. Soon, your operating system will not only be able to tell its users to go to hell, but will also be able to tell them how to get there. 

And so, the juggernaut rolls on...