Allison continues to thrive, getting Oscar ink in industry rag The Washington Post for the ACLU's red carpet success as nominees Julie Christie and Alex Gibney wore orange "Close Guantánamo" ribbons.AND IT SHOULD BE ADDED: ... that the triple-threatening media, activism, webby Jenny Egan is the brains behind most of the Close Guantánamo campaign.

Dowd on the presidential campaign: "By threatening to throw the kitchen sink at Obama, the Clinton campaign simply confirmed the fact that they might be going down the drain."

Such a nice metaphor from Japan, cited by Ethan Zuckerman in an entry about a vanished blog on Nigeria: The Japanese call dead blogs “ishikoro” - pebbles. A missing blog is something else, a hole, like a dropped stitch in a row of knitting.While you're there, check out the account of Nigeria that's the point of the post too. And for more on Nigeria and oil, see this presentation from photographer Ed Kashi.