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  1. What is believed to be the only statue in the world of the Devil, in Madrid's Parco Retiro: http://pic.gd/9c11fa
  2. Man yelling into cell phone next to me: "Yes, I'm in a tunnel--I'm on a plane, a big aluminum tunnel with wings & a jet engine up its ass."
  3. I'm evidently doing a chat with readers of El Mundo tomorrow as part of my Madrid swing. Send your questions in here: http://bit.ly/12Dc5C
  4. Dumb "Word of the Year" stories are one of my least favorite annual news cycles. Good scam by Oxford dictionary, though, so go them!
  5. Had a really impressive trad'l Yemeni dinner last night, great soups, rice, and lamb. Yemeni coffee might be my new favorite drink.
  6. Mistakenly started reading The Lost Symbol. I guess the day is lost now.
  7. The pub where Harry Potter was born in Edinburgh: http://pic.gd/005dc6
  8. Settling in for afternoon tea at the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh and to do some work. Why don't we do afternoon tea? It's so civilized!
  9. RT @washingtonian: Fists Fly At the Washington Post http://bit.ly/cXXud
  10. Just scarfed down some pumpkin pudding from @austinpudding's shack. South Congress is a cute 'hood; one store offers "deer processing."
  11. I sat near Tim Riggins and his brother from Friday Night Lights last night at Uchi in Austin, Texas. Is there a bigger Texas celebrity? No.
  12. In the offices of Evan Smith's new Texas Tribune, launching Tuesday. Packed with people, it's a real thing! Is this the future of news?
  13. I'm sad that one of the FBI's dogs, Freddy, was killed in a shootout Wed. in Detroit (the other dog, Booger, is ok): http://bit.ly/4eO570
  14. At the LBJ Library. I didn't know that the DC-Moscow Hotline was a teletype, peak of 1960s technology: http://pic.gd/08d5
  15. Off to spend the morning talking politics/tech to students at UT's LBJ School in Austin. How's Obama doing in his first year tech-wise?
  16. Just asked pilot next to me in CLT shoeshine chair about those Northwest pilots: "Oh, they were definitely sleeping."
  17. PS: Numbers I hear are that Politico plans to hire 100 reporters to staff new local news site, about 1/6 the Post's staff.
  18. With word that Politico is going after the WaPo with a new local news site, I'd bet on Politico surviving, not the WaPo: http://bit.ly/mAP0a
  19. Happy birthday to one of my favorite authors, Evelyn Waugh. Wonder what he'd think of Tina Brown's Daily Beast as original inventor of name?
  20. RT @washingtonian: Slate's David Plotz and Dahlia Lithwick are Don Graham's new darlings. We look at why: http://bit.ly/1AHupd