**Top Things Of The Week**
Law of the week: Eagle feather law. It is quite fascinating. I suggest you take a look. (Apropos of this).
Leahfinnegan.com’s incoming search terms of the week: “head to toe catsuit;” “finnegans brain damage.”
Lede of the week: Before the Internet, a Russian dissident might have hoped to reach dozens of sympathetic readers with a mimeographed samizdat publication of forbidden material. (via)
[Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz] Sharif just looked at me. “How can you get a text message that long on your telephone?”
“It’s an e-mail,” I said, slightly shocked that Sharif was unconcerned about what I had just said. “This is a BlackBerry phone. You can get e-mail on it.”
“Ah, e-mail,” he said. “I must look into this BlackBerry.”
–Kim Barker, The Taliban Shuffle
Top 10 “10 Things You Didn’t Know About…” Lists
1. Somali pirates
2. Dark energy
3. Clint Eastwood
4. Pancakes
5. Ireland
6. Koobface gang
7. Hermaphrodites
8. Alex Trebek
9. The origins of country music
10. David Petraeus
I recently went to California. It was great! California is really great at being a state. In many places there are palm trees and, sometimes, there is mist. And certain trees and shrubs look like the knuckles of Yubaba from Spirited Away. The best things I did in California were as follows: (1) Ate an entire chicken (with Jesse); (2) Visited with Mark Yudof; (3) (tie) Searched for John Yoo’s office/Walked up a hill to a rose garden.