David Gallagher, author of the article that proposed the Google First Name Top Ten Award says that there’s some “back story” to his article. (E.g., apparently there’s a photo he is suppressing.) He also has an entry about the Making Of his piece on Mahir “I Kiss You” Cagri that ran in the NY Times. His blog has lots of pictures, too, including one of a handlettered sign advertising “Waterbaloons already filled – 10 cents” — it could be a New Yorker cartoon if it weren’t already a photograph.

Anita Rowland writes:

I took action to add a blogroll to my site when I was shocked, shocked, to find Anita Bora ranked higher than me! Always before the only Anita ahead of me was Santa Anita Racetrack.

We’ve been teasing each other about it since: http://www.anitarowland.com/gmarchives/00000384.html

On an unrelated note, Euan Semple (who is moving The Obvious weblog to http://www.theobviousblog.net/blog/) writes:

I thought of you as soon as I saw this:

I assume this street guide to sign language reminded Euan of me because of the UnFuck forgiveness gesture I have initiated, trademarked, copyrighted, legally adopted and cryogenically frozen.

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