“Bridge officials set to slam brakes on FasTrak cheats,” a San Francisco Chronicle headline warns. But the article smells like a PR campaign to convince drivers who zip through the gateless toll booths without a pass that something very, very bad is about to happen to them. “FasTrak cheats could face late-night visits from folks who would boot their cars or tow them away.” That’s presuming FasTrak bureaucrats can get new legislation passed. Translation: The electronic toll-collection technology doesn’t work as it was supposed to, and they can’t fix it.

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Silicon Valley entrepreneur Stanley Kirk Burrell, who sometimes goes by another name and often wears very large pants, as the video above, has teamed with Flock founders Geoffrey Arone and Anthony Young to launch DanceJam, a new online video site. Burrell is perhaps best known for pairing with videoblogger Justine Ezarik of iJustine to endorse Y Combinator’s MySpace profile tool.

Burrell told the Financial Times he spoke with angel investor Ron Conway prior to teaming with Arone and Young on DanceJam. In an interesting side note, business partners might be surprised to learn that prior to his tech career, Burrell also dabbled in music. He’s perhaps best know for his 2006 album titled Look Look Look. And here’s a picture of Burrell with fellow entrepreneur Jay Adelson, the CEO of Digg.

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Look where baiting Apple fanboys gets you. Yesterday we noted that the top-selling digital music device on Amazon.com was not the iPod but Microsoft’s Zune. Commenter deathbychichi made quick work of this assertion.

“Um, yeah, currently two Zunes in the top 25 electronics bestsellers on Amazon. Nine iPods.” Deathbychici also points out that while Microsoft’s heavily discounted $89 30GB model is currently outselling each of the various nine iPod models, different colors of the iPod Nano are outselling the regularly-priced Zune. Ouch.

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Stuck at work? Sorry to hear it. Valleywag’s working a full day, so we’ll keep you entertained. In fact, if you were thinking about leaving early to beat traffic, you might as well just stay at your desk. The Bay Area’s major escape routes, 580-E towards Livermore and 101-N in Marin, are already clogged with Thanksgiving traffic.

comScore says Facebook traffic dropped in September. We didn’t think that was accurate. It turns out that traffic was only “down” because comScore’s measurement panel (along with Nielsen and others) only measures traffic from home. As students return to school, they are removed from the panel and traffic “drops.” Facebook says that active monthly users is still rising at 3 percent a week, as it has since January 2007. [GigaOM]