Source of So Cal fire
It looks like the source of that fire in Southern California may have been a boy (thought to be under 13) who was playing with matches. The fire destroyed 63 buildings and burned 38,000 acres.
Google OpenSocial
The NY Times reports that tomorrow Google will release a new set of APIs to help developers write programs for Google's social network, Orkut. The APIs are an attempt to improve upon their incredibly feeble social network service and has included several other failed social networks like LinkedIn hi5, Friendster, Plaxo and Ning. If most of those names sound unfamiliar to you don't worry you're not alone. If you recognize the name Friendster its probably from the butt of a joke or two. These networks certainly don't hold a candle to monolithic services like Myspace, Facebook and Tribe but perhaps this will change. Sites like Myspace use a closed architecture so developers can't improve upon them. The Google APIs could be a direct rival to Facebook's API which allows developers to add custom features to the site. Depending on what Google means by "Open" the API could provide a way unify several distributed services throughout the net. Either way, one can hope that the new APIs will finally make Orkut something worth using, it couldn't hurt.
UPDATE: The movie about was posted a few hours ago. It looks like they got MySpace on-board!