The baby rolled over three times today. Awards ceremony pending.

"For the scientist, as for the mystic, beauty goes hand in hand with truth."
—Einstein and Buddha, p. 23, sentence 5

1. Grab the nearest book
2. Open the book to page 23
3. Find the fifth sentence
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions

Via Dave, via Shelley, via...

Says here, DickCheneyIsABitch. That's not all: the leader of the free world apparently is a Post Turtle, and, in like manner, JohnKerryIsADouchebagButImVotingForHimAnyway (don't miss Instances of Doucheitude and Why it Doesn't Matter).

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There are 23 members and 64 posts so far at Gmail Forums.

The Today Show reported on Generation C (for "Content") this morning. Of course, Jeff Jarvis and JD Lasica had this early last month, and credited the source: Trendwatching.

Wild Republic's Audubon Birds with authentic sounds. There's a good selection at Bugs and Stuff. (The nursery: it's a jungle in there.)

Random brilliant ideas spawned from emails and comments with Kevin Heller:

• MESOTHELIOMA@home: harnesses the world's idle CPU cycles to click on lawyers' paid search ads, costing them some $100 a pop. (With apologies to SETI@home, John Battelle, and anyone suffering from this tragic ailment.)
• Mandatory warning label: "Caution: Objects In Aggregator Are Less Cool Than They Appear." (Context.)

Did you see that Blogger is offering early Gmail accounts to "active" users? More, from Ev.

Also via Mr. Williams, Tim O'Reilly takes on California Senator Liz Figueroa and concerns about Gmail and privacy.

"It's geek-meets-grape as wine gets wired"

It was indescribably beautiful here today, so I'm in the process of posting a bunch of photos from my walk with the baby. I hope these help quell the entirely fictitious and not at all rampant rumor that they want me on the Third Circuit. (Unless I too could have chambers in the Ninth...Hmm!)

On the seventh day God made maternity leave. And it was good. So educational too. In just one day, for example, my portion of wisdom increased in numerous subtle ways:

• It's tough to beat a charged phone, a charged iPod, an uncharged baby in a big, comfy stroller, and a whole morning to enjoy them.
• It's a really good time to be in construction.
• Trash day is trash day — even on the beach.
• The roses in our front yard bloom in April.
• One need not necessarily juggle one's schedule a month in advance to work in a hair cut.
• Baseball caps. (I'd forgotten all about them.)
• There are literally hours of baby entertainment in that paper bag Starbucks provides with your muffin.
• If you should find yourself in a grocery store without the baby, there is hardly any reason at all to rock the shopping cart.

The American Immigrant Wall of Honor: "Mother's Day means Family, and what better way to honor Mom than by presenting her with a unique document celebrating her own family's heritage. . . . Proceeds from the Wall of Honor support the many projects the [Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island] Foundation undertakes year-round at Lady Liberty and on Ellis Island." Names on the wall are searchable, too.

Over at David Giacalone's, my Newport neighbor J. Craig Williams explains how his blog has helped grow his law practice — we're talking "hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of legal business" — as reported in the New York Times:

I think you have to put yourself out there, who you truly are, and let people see that.  You show them that you're the one they want to hire because you either write well, they understand what you write, or you're writing about the very thing that they need help with . . .

Just as important to getting clients, however, is that the blog teaches me . . . I am [] more informed about the law than if I did not write it.

Nice, huh? (The backdrop of the discussion is continued musing about LexBlog, and business blogging in the legal context.)

I mean, aside from the blog. The 300 lawyer, Denver based law firm also has WiFi in the conference rooms, and "lists most of its 600 employees" on its Web site. (Most firms list just the lawyers, sometimes not even all of them.) [Both factoids via LawFirmInc.; just one of the articles is online (Low Visibility).]

Have you ever wondered what a federal appellate judge might sound like in IM-speak? Of course you have.

How Appealing relocates to the Legal Affairs site as of midnight tonight. (New URI to follow. [Update]: Here it is. I'm not yet getting a site there, but give them a bit.) Well done Howard, well done Legal Affairs. (Someone there apparently has read the book.)

Whatever else you may do for Mother's Day, every mom needs one of these. (You're welcome.)