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I was on the Namibia trip with Seth Berkely on which he broke his leg, which was covered by this MSNBC article. His wedding was covered as the lead vows column in last week’s NYT. Dealing with a broken angle in one of the most remote areas of the world was quite an experience, and I give Seth a lot of credit for how he dealt with it and his long recovery. My best wishes on a happy marriage.

“After a year of painstaking scientific research, the world’s funniest joke was revealed on Thursday.” Don’t get your hopes up. Since the methodology is what joke is funniest across all cultures and types of people, the outcome was predestined to be pretty mild. Here is the study’s website, with some descriptions on why the jokes are funny.

Great NYT special issue on New York, showing it at the canonical great city. Here’s Kurt Anderson (of Turn of the Century fame), on the dot com bust: “The dreamers and tinkerers of Silicon Valley were not innocents, but they were, at worst, Drs. Faustus willingly seduced by the slick Mephistophelean agents of New York’s blue-chip money culture.”