Reader Francis writes:

Ad:tech San Francisco is on and I'm disappointed. AdWeek's Brian Morrissey promised me Ad:tech would be full of "random, sketchy lead gen ad networks who hire booth babes." Instead, I'm stuck in a session with panelists explaining how Google could better sell search advertising for offline brand advertising campaigns,…

BusinessWeek columnist Sarah Lacy, in Israel for a conference, is feeling the heat, and this time not from a conference audience. Tipsters, don't fail us now: pics or it didn't happen!

If only you people would stop clicking on posts about Julia Allison and Meghan Asha, you would make Metaversatility biz-dev guy Chadrick Baker very happy. "Please, please for all that is good and is right in the world," Baker beseeches us in an email, "please stop reporting on nitwits." Below, the "smart, attractive…

Attention Gina Valo fans: Did you know Valo, the Googler who also wears the Miss Michigan beauty crown, plays the fiddle? And can dance the Bombshell Stomp? And that her career goal is to become an "independent strategy consultant and social entrepreneur"? Neither did we. Thanks, Chris311. I'm sure Valo appreciates…

Here's Gina Valo, Miss Michigan and Google employee. You'll notice she's dropped the bright red lipstick and caked-on foundation she wore in the beauty pageant picture we posted before. And that it's a huge improvement. "Clearly," the tipster who forwarded us this photo tells us, "the most important tip you'll receive…

No, Googlers aren't talking about Microsoft's Sunnyvale raid. But they're totally thrilled to discuss the new Miss Michigan, Googler Gina Valo, 24. The former state champ, Kirsten Haglund, just won the Miss America contest, elevating one-time runner-up Valo to the top spot locally. We weren't able to Google much on…

How laden with pulchritude was the floor of Moose's last Friday, when we sent off Natali Del Conte? Check the shoes. What's even sexier? The stock options attached to some of this mod-shod squad. For you shoe fetishists out there, who wore what:

By day, Ben Ling is a red-hot property in Silicon Valley for his brains. But in San Francisco's nightclubs, he's a red-hot property for his killer bod. Check out the engineer as he dances at Club Asia in this June 2006 video. His fans are shoving dollars down his briefs, almost as eagerly as Larry Page, Sergey…

We're getting requests for another Snacky or Flacky contest. You know, the one where we objectified some of Silicon Valley's brightest public relations stars. You people are sick. Can't you tell that we at Valleywag have moved beyond such exploitation? This space is for honoring the hard work of PR professionals, like…

New voting site Dig a Silicon Valley Girl has reached the pinnacle of loser-generated content. It makes the implicit explicit — the sex-starved id of the male-dominated Valley made tangible in a thoroughly useless, if entertainingly revealing site. DSVG recycles the social voting of Digg, mixes it with rating site…

The Lobby, David Hornik's Hawaii funconference, may have no agenda — but a lot is happening all the same. One delicious incident recounted to us: TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington, who'd previously wooed BusinessWeek columnist and Valley fox Sarah Lacy onto his TechCrunch40 judges panel, apparently said something…

Lucy Hood, Jamba CEO and president of Fox Mobile Entertainment, has quit. Though no future plans have been announced, we suspect she'd fit right in at the Fox Business Network, alongside Hewlett-Packard alum Carly Fiorina. Heck, she could make it an intracompany transfer. [Silicon Alley Insider]

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina has signed on to be a Fox Business Network contributor. According to the press release, Fiorina achieved the highest rate of innovation in company history. How they measure that metric is a mystery to us; after all, shortly after Fiorina left, the company engaged in some highly…

We're getting live reports on who's making it past the velvet rope at Google's New York party. The bash, held in Google's West Chelsea offices at 76 Ninth Avenue, has already kicked up a fuss. Google's controlling-but-not-that-bright PR people have tried to limit the guest list to consumer and fashion reporters,…

More than four decades after the invention of the plasma display, Wired Science, which is debuting October 3 on your local PBS station, arms vlog hot yet approachable host Ziya Tong with a circular saw to explain how these new-fangled screens work. "This," explains communications major Ziya , "is the shape of the…

Tech behemoth Microsoft has signed , alas, not signed Australian beauty queen Erin McNaught as an IT spokeswoman this week, contrary to prior reports that she was going to promote the "sexy" image of IT professionals. McNaught, known to the Australian press as McNaughty, does have a few tech qualifications — more than…

Says commenter The Default Attorney about Facebook recruiter Meagan Marks, one of the Valley foxes we featured recently:

What is it about the women Facebook hires? I'm sure they're all brilliant, but it needs to be said: The hot social network has equally hot personnel. Randi Jayne, sister of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, finally outs herself on video as a Facebook employee in this clip. But the video doesn't do her justice — as you might have…