Focus the 'Tos

Today is "Focus the Nation," a national teach-in on global warming. It comes amidst a lot of exciting progress on climate change at UCLA Law. Last week's law review symposium highlighted some of the best idea for addressing the problem. The school announced that it had received a $5 million gift to open the country's first center for climate change law. A group of students has embarked on an effort to personally comply with the Kyoto Protocol. And I even got to meet one of the impostor Jonathan Wieners. (Details to follow in another post).

But this blog is not about the nation, the globe, or even UCLA Law. It is about the 'Tos, which joined the party last week.

Thanks to the efforts of Kacey Fitzpatrick and the other folks behind Cool Los Altos, our city has pledged to meet the Kyoto Protocol by 2012. This seems like it will require rethinking, among other things, how much we want to continue use free public parking to subsidize driving. I'm not optimistic that we will necessarily pull it off -- at least so long as council member and blog whipping boy Ron Packard believes that the only thing Los Altos should do about the great challenge of our time is promulgate weak revisions to the building code. But at least it will be nice to know that we inspired Iraq.

Thank you, famous Jon Wiener

for thwarting my New Year's Resolution of to get this blog onto one of the first ten pages of results when people search Google for Jon Wiener.

Welcome disappointed perverts

As many of you know, I've long been upset about all of the impostor Jon Wieners out there that are more famous than I am. So after a recent talk with Jesse Lewin, I've decided to do some shameless Mike Cassidy-style self-promotion. Okay, fine, I'm somewhat ashamed of it.

As a first step, I installed a handy stat counter on the site. The best thing about this tool is seeing the stray search terms that lead unsuspecting surfers from all over the world to Nemesis of Evil.

Three of my recent favorites:

1. Places to visit in Somalia -- And BigDra thought that nobody read the foreign dispatches.
2. Taser vagina -- I blame Erik Koland for this one.
3. Rebecca Wallace porn -- This led to the main page, even though I had already removed both NOE's porn coverage and a link to Palo Alto Weekly arts and entertainment editor Rebecca Wallace's blog.

You know what? As long as we're linking to everyone and their mothers, Mountain View Voice managing editor Don Frances.