SNIPPET OF THE DAY – AT 9:09 A.M. ET: 

Via my friend, Iranian rights activist Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi:

So you thought people in this country named their children oddly, with names like "Apple", "Rumer" and "Mathew" with one "T," but one man in Egypt may have topped them all.  Inspired by the role Facebook played in the recent protests and ultimate overthrow of Egypt's president, the twenty-something year-old man felt a need to express his thanks, and did so by naming his newborn girl "Facebook."

Look, it could have been much worse.  Imagine if Microsoft Office 2011 was the big player in the revolution.

February 22, 2011