SO THAT’S WHAT THEY’RE CALLING IT NOW: Men with a big carbon footprint.

GOOD NEWS: Iraqi oil exceeds pre-war output.

UPDATE: More related good news from Jules Crittenden.

THIS SEEMS RIGHT TO ME: A Fifth Amendment right not to enter an encryption passphrase.

LOOKING AT LAWRENCE O’DONNELL’S VIEWS ON MORMONISM: Kind of embarrassing for MSNBC.

BLOGGER AND COMMENTER TRITICALE has died. I hadn’t heard of his leukemia, but I enjoyed his blog posts and comments. He will be missed.

UH OH: “5th Grader Questions Obama, Making Immigration-Terror Link.”

UPDATE: Dan Riehl has questions.

SARTORIAL ADVICE for law professors.

SHOCKINGLY, THE SCIENCE behind the new Will Smith vehicle, I am Legend — which sounds like a remake of The Omega Man — turns out to be bogus.

UPDATE: A bunch of readers email that, in fact, both movies are based on the same book. So I was right, though in ignorance.

FRED THOMPSON’S CAMPAIGN is trying to get 2400 donors in 24 hours. They’re pushing the “show of hands” video and asking “Don’t you want a conservative leader who won’t grovel to the liberal media?”

TIM NOAH: “The big-picture political story of the 2008 presidential election is the disenfranchisement of the primary voter.”

SOME RECOMMENDED GIFTS in jewelry and watches.

THE RON PAUL blimp.

ANIMAL HOUSE RULES RULERS: Yesterday it was The Flounder Principle. Today we hear about the Delta House Congress:

In the movie “Animal House,” the fraternity brother known as Otter reacts to the Delta House’s closure with the classic line, “I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part.” To which Bluto, played by John Belushi, replies, “We’re just the guys to do it.” The movie ends by noting that Bluto becomes a Senator, so perhaps this explains the meltdown among Democrats on Capitol Hill.

Memo to Congress: We’re not laughing with you. We’re laughing at you.

A LOOK AT the cybercrime economy.

THE FREAK SHOW COMES TO LIFE: A writing assignment.

J.K. ROWLING’S Tales of Beedle the Bard. In an extremely limited edition, hand-written and illustrated by J.K. Rowling. Pictures at the link.

NO LOVE FOR HILLARY IN WYOMING:

Wyoming’s Democratic Party chairman says that Hillary Clinton will “completely reverse” progress the party has made in that state and that “most voters in Wyoming seem to hate Hillary Clinton.”

He prefers Obama.

THOUGHTS ON teaching, principles, and the role of the professor. From Leonard Kaplan, victim of a pretty clearly bogus political-correctness scandal in Wisconsin.

MITT ROMNEY: The right’s John Kerry? Ouch.

“HUCKACIDE?”

HEY, YOU DON’T NEED TO WORRY IF THE BATTERY’S CHARGED: “Sony on Thursday unveiled a prototype digital camera shaped like a pizza cutter with a wheel that can be turned to generate enough power to take pictures.” I don’t think it’ll sell, though.

RON SILVER on fear.

GUN FREE ZONES AND MASS MURDER, in the Portland Press-Herald.

VIDEO: chugging water at record speed. Just stay away from the vodka. “A man nearly died from alcohol poisoning after quaffing a liter (two pints) of vodka at an airport security check instead of handing it over to comply with new carry-on rules, police said Wednesday.”

REPORTING FROM THE digital video expo. This hurts: “Panasonic’s AG-HMC70 is a low-cost, solid-state, shoulder-mounted HD camera. Sporting an array of pro features — balanced audio inputs (bottom), HDMI outputs, AVCHD codec and an adjustable eyepiece — this new camera will be quite a deal when it’s released at around $1,200.”

And I know the reason for the price plunge . . . . .

Plus, convert old movies to digital video at home.