iFive: Google, Top Kill, Apple, and the Pirates of Tinseltown

While you were sleeping, innovation was doing great things--including delivering your BBC iPlayer-read iPad a day early if you live in Europe. Hurrah!

1. Open memo to Hollywood studios. If you're going to kvetch about piracy, then don't do it yourselves. Peter Serafinowicz, as far as we're concerned, doesn't complain, so he's exempt--but maybe that's because he makes us laugh.

2. Apple's WWDC event next month may well have a Blue Scream of Death: the theory is that Steve Ballmer will be...