This is the most arresting press release header we've seen this week:

For Immediate Release: Immediately

No sense putting this one off, then. Let's go:

14-year-old Finnish Boy Sells the Most Expensive Internet Domain in the Planet

Stop right there. Let's google the subject to see what comes up. In 2006, Cameras.com was sold for $1.5 million. Monthly traffic: 1,747 unique visitors. Computer.com was sold in 2007 for $2.1 million, and draws in an eye-popping 1,049 people per month. Vodka.com brought 3 mil, and gets 1,346 - no stats on Vodak.com, though, which might be what people type when they're boozy and thick-fingered. Fund.com went for almost 10 mil in 2008, and doesn't get more than 400 visitors a month. That just can't be right, but thats what BusinessInsider.com says. We continue with the press release, IMMEDIATELY:

Around 7 minutes into this he's just running outtakes.

GORGEOUS A collection of Hotel Stationery. This isn't one of them:

That's from my own small collection, which draws on antique-store finds. The link goes to the Goldstein-Avery collection in the Burns Library at Boston College. Interesting how the date field is usually 191_ - apparently they expected to change styles in the Twenties, or just didn't want to hang on to lots of inventory.

YO HO HO Kernel has a piece on "Torrent Snobs, " people who share, shall we say, things for which they did not pay. Turns out that this ragtag band of unorganized pirates has self-organized into classes. Shocker./

What do you get for membership in this band of high-class pirates?

Tagging music with a genre is now considered a high standard. Speaking of high standards: Mike Myers said he backed out of the "Sprockets" movie because the script was bad, and he didn't want to disappoint people who paid "their hard-earned money to see my work." But Splitsider's read the script, and says it was pretty good. More here.