In this episode, Cringely expounds on Yahoo’s talks with News Corp. as “a bit like being rescued from a fire-breathing dragon by a man-eating shark.”Even still, Cringe adds, “it would be fun to lock Ballmer and Murdoch together in a conference room and see who comes out alive.”Perhaps not as much as fun, though, as watching “there’s no business like SCO business” CEO Darl McBride pursue his lifelong dream of being a NASCAR driver, something he might find time to do now that a private equity firm is taking a $100 million stake in the company so it can emerge from bankruptcy. Why? Who knows. That $100 million might seem like a hearty chunk of change, until you read about how much a Washington D.C. woman is suing BestBuy for on account of losing her laptop. Geek week in review. Software Development