Hasta La Gadget!

Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore this morning announced that he will be contributing $20,000 to help bail WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange out of jail.

The Fahrenheit 911 director didn’t go too far into the sexual assault charges for which Assange is being held, instead using the opportunities to extol the virtues of his site, calling support of WikiLeaks “true patriotism.”

“Just imagine if the men who planned this war crime back in 2002 had had a WikiLeaks to deal with,” wrote Moore. They might not have been able to pull it off. The only reason they thought they could get away with it was because they had a guaranteed cloak of secrecy. That guarantee has now been ripped from them, and I hope they are never able to operate in secret again.”

Moore also promised to offer “my website, my servers, my domain names and anything else I can do to keep WikiLeaks alive and thriving as it continues its work to expose the crimes that were concocted in secret and carried out in our name and with our tax dollars.”

Hey reader, are you a single lady age 22-46 who is a “spirited, erotic, non-[conformist]?” with “innate perceptiveness and spunk?” Good news. We may have just the guy for you, a 36-year-old 6’2 Australian ex-pat who is “87 percent slut.”

Of course, he’s not perfect. First there’s the fact that he’s hated by a number of the world’s governments for his role in leaking sensitive information. And then there are the rape charges–he’s currently being held on those.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s OkCupid dating profile has, fittingly, been leaked. The page contains such classied info as “Want a regular, down to earth guy? Keep moving. I am not the droid you’re looking for. Save us both while you still can” and “I like women from countries that have sustained political turmoil. Western culture seems to forge women that are valueless and inane.”

Upon reviewing the leaked profile, OkCupid CEO Sam Yagan confirmed it with the press, stating, “Yep, we believe it to be legitimate; it would have been quite an elaborate hoax otherwise.”

The profile hasn’t been accessed since 2006 (Assange has been a pretty busy guy, as of late)–so if this thing is indeed a hoax, someone’s done a really good job covering their tracks.

The question now is whether the profile might be used as character evidence for Assange, who describes himself as, “very protective of women and children.” The whole part about having “Asian teengirl stalkers” might be a little more troubling, however…

This week Google Cr-48 notebooks started showing up on doorsteps around the country as press and curious users received their test units, and the holiday shopping season started to heat up. This week some of the best videos YouTube had to offer included Google’s sense of humor on display, a really cool (and somewhat destructive) scientific experiment, and lots of holiday cheer. 

Welcome to 2011. Standard & Poor’s made a big shakeup on its S&P 500 this week, adding in a number of new names, including Netflix, Cablevision, and networking company F5 Networks.

Cablevision took the place of King Pharmaceuticals, which dropped out of the running after being acquired by S&P 100 company Pfizer. Netflix, F5, and Newfield Exploration Co., meanwhile, swapped spots with The New York Times, Office Depot, and Eastman Kodak.

It’s hard not to view such a move as a pretty clear indication of where our priorities lie in 2010. Netflix and Cablevision’s stocks jumped 5.6 and 5 percent at the news.The New York Times, Office Depot, and Kodak all dropped.

The snappily titled tome WikiLeaks Documents Expose US Foreign Policy Conspiracies was pulled from Amazon after being offered as a download on the UK version of the site. Despite the deepening controversy around the whistle blowing site, however, Amazon insists that it played no part in the removal of the eBook.

“We did not remove the title,” a spokesperson for the site told PCMag, “and are verifying that it was removed from sale by the author.” Amazon apparently opted not to remove Heinz Duthel’s book, since it didn’t actually include any of the classified material presented by WikiLeaks.

According to a note on the book’s Amazon page, “This book contains commentary and analysis regarding recent WikiLeaks disclosures, not the original material disclosed via the WikiLeaks Website.”

Amazon drew criticism from WikiLeaks supporters earlier this month after booting the site from its servers over concerns that it was hosting illegal information. Operation Payback, the decentralized group behind recent DDoS attacks on MasterCard, Visa, and Paypal sites, recently announced its intentions to target the retailer, but ultimately failed to build up enough support amongst its supporters.