Leo Laporte, the founder of the podcast called The Tech Guy! had a recent caller that is upset that her stolen wireless connection went away. She claimed that her stolen Wi-Fi “disappeared” and she was not happy about it. This is one of the most epic calls I’ve heard on Laporte’s show.

University of Oklahoma physics professor Kieran Mullen made it a point for his students not bring laptops into class by destroying one with liquid nitrogen. “This is just liquid nitrogen, so it alone won’t hurt the computer. But this will. ” [Engadget]

The Make-A-Wish Foundation has announced that Blizzard Entertainment, the company that designs World of Warcraft has donated $1.1 million. This donation is based on 50% of total sales during November and December 2009 of a special in-game pet called the Pandaren Monk within World of Warcraft. “We’ve had a long relationship with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and we’re proud to support the priceless work they do for children,” stated Mike Morhaime, CEO and co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment. “This donation also reflects the spirit and generosity of our players – their enthusiasm for World of Warcraft and for supporting a good cause made this possible.” [Blizzard PR]

Fifty seven YouTube artists came together to sing “We Are The World.” This video emulates a similar video that many pop culture artists put together in the last couple of weeks. The collaboration was put together by Lisa Lavie.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has granted Google Energy the right to behave like a utility company. This means that Google Energy has the power to sell energy and services at market rates. Why is Google interested in being a utility? The company wants to be more green and become carbon neutral. Google will now have the ability to build as many solar panels and install as many fuel cells as they want to. And then the company can sell off the extra energy that they have created. [Wired]

FarmVille, the game created by Zynga has passed the 80 million mark as of yesterday. Thats about 20% of Facebook’s total user base. Recently Zynga created a fund raising campaign for Haiti and Farmville users donated about $1 million. [AllFacebook]

I read this opinion piece on InvestorPlace.com by Jim Woods about the media frenzy surrounding the Toyota recall. As many of you know, Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda will be appearing before the United States Congress to testify at a hearing next week. There are a certain number of politicians that will be biased against Toyota because of the government’s ownership in General Motors. But Toyota has many production facilities across the United States which account for nearly 18,000 jobs, including the states of Indiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Kentucky.

The governors of these states wrote a letter last week to the heads of the two house committees. The governors “described Toyota as a victim of an overly aggressive press and said the company had responded to its safety problems in a more ‘emphatic manner” than any other car company under scrutiny by the Department of Transportation.” These governors asked federal regulators to be fair because of their obvious conflict of interest due to financial stakes in GM and Chrysler.

[InvestorPlace.com]

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Facebook has acquired a small Malaysian startup company called Octazen Solutions. Octazen Solutions created an e-mail contact importer tool that social networks users for encouraging users to join a social network. The acquisition was intended to be for the talent behind the company. [GigaOm]