We treat non sequiturs as spam: A bit of administrivia: If you drop by this weblog and leave a random-sounding comment on some old entry, chances are I will simply assume you are spamming us and delete the comment and ban you forthwith. This morning I deleted just such a message. The site linked didn't seem especially... (Weblog Concepts)

Another blogger upside story: I think we need to coin yet another neologism, perhaps "blogvertigo" for that swoon a blogger feels when starting down another one of those endlessly branching (till the browser crashes) web expeditions while trying to decide what to save and what to comment on. Next thing you know you're at BoingBoing... (Weblog Concepts)

John Edwards is the Grisham candidate: Too lazy to pad out to my front drive and pick up the Sunday Chronicle, I've been reading New York Times op eds and now skimming Slate. There's a tight little William Saletan article from Thursday, Wise Counsel - Edwards copies Clinton's message—in invisible ink, that makes the point that John... (Memes)

What has Iraq got that North Korea hasn't?: In his op ed today, A War for Oil?, Tom Friedman mentions the president's recent soundbite:Mr. Bush's recent attempt to hype the Iraqi threat by saying that an Iraqi attack on America — which is most unlikely — "would cripple our economy" was embarrassing. It made the president look as if... (Miscellany)

Chatterbox adopts 'Meme Watch' term: It looks like Slate launched a feature called Meme Watch back in November and refers, semifacetiously, to a MemeTracker™ device. Hey, as long as they pay us royalties! No, honestly, the more of us tracking memes the better. Timothy Noah's latest column observes the ups and downs of the "Lucky Duckies"... (Memes)