Mark Knopfler (of Dire Straits) is one lucky guy: they named a dinosaur after him. "Masiakasaurus knopfleri is a 1.8 meter (6 ft) long meat-eating creature, about the size of a German shepherd dog, with unusual protruding teeth. "

TheSpark has a new test: it'll guess your gender. It guessed mine correctly. I heard about a gender-based Turing test, in which they asked, "What would you do with plastic toy soliders?" The person answered, "set up battles with them," and was immediately guessed to be a woman. A guy would have answered something more like "Set fire to them and melt them."

Finally! Someone gave me their dinner party list. Here's Rich's:

• Kalle Lasn (counter-culturist, founder of AdBusters, and all around smart guy)
  
• Tori Amos (ridiculously talented and perhaps crazy singer/pianist)
  
• Thom Yorke (frontman and ringleader for uber-cool rock band Radiohead)
  
• Edward Norton (smart, funny, astounding actor and seemingly normal and nice guy)
  
• George Clooney (woefully underappreciated actor and epitome of the new cool)
  
• Myself
  
• Winona Ryder (actress, and someone I've wanted to meet since age 16)
  
• Carrie Brownstein (guitarist for all-girl rock band Sleater-Kinney)
  
• Steven Soderbergh (my favorite film director working today)
  
• Steve Martin (absurdly funny and smart comic, actor, author)
  
• Dr. Drew Pinski (host of Loveline radio show, concerned and passionate)
  

Here's what it says on the back of my package of toilet paper:

"Safeway guarantees that your family will be satisfied with Softly Ultra tissue. If you are not, return the unused portion to your local store for a full refund."

What gets me here is that little "return the unused portion". I can just imagine the ad execs sitting around the table, scratching their heads. "Okay, good, but how do we make sure they don't return the USED part?"