Update: Here's the post-session handout provided by the Multimedia Lab crew.

Blog to Book and Back Again Day Two of BlogHer 07 began with a standing-room-only panel, Book to Blog and Back Again. The panel included Gina Trapani, whose blog and book lifehacker.com is a huge hit; Ariel Meadow Stallings, author of the cool book and blog Offbeat Bride; and literary agent Kate Lee offering a publisher's perspective. Denise Wakeman of the Blog Squad moderated the panel.

Foodies and other BlogHer 07 attendees: Join us Saturday 7-28 for a luscious panel on Food Photography at 2:45pm in Room 325. Beatrice Peltre and Lara Ferroni, and yours truly as moderator will cover everything you need to know to create mouthwatering photographs for your blog.

Is the Supreme Court of the United States guilty of sex discrimination? Law blogs are buzzing about the fact that of the 37 Supreme Court law clerks this year, only 7 are women. A Supreme Court clerkship following law school is the plum of all clerkships, and is often a free pass to any law job following the temporary clerkship. Supreme Court justices pick their own clerks, usually on the basis of academic achievement in law school. I went to Stanford Law years ago, and you couldn't have convinced me then or now that many of the women there were less worthy of a Supreme Court clerkship than their male classmates. Shame, shame on the Supremes!

None of us wants to spend more time in a public ladies room than she has to. Lately it seems there are more stumbling blocks to getting in and out fast--in the form of automated everything. Toilets flush on their own, often at inopportune times. Automatically controlled faucets gleefully refuse to cooperate when you stick you hands under them. Nothing seems to happen until you give up and move your hands away. Sometimes you're lucky and are able to tease out a squirt of water, but it never seems to be enough to do the job. Seeing-eye soap dispensers are just as cranky. And don't even get me started on the automatic towel dispensers, which obstinately refuse to dispense when you're standing there dripping soap and water on the floor. Sometimes you're offered the alternative of the hand blow dryer, which doesn't really dry hands, but never fails to mess up your hair. Whoever is in charge of these devices in airports, restaurants, and other public places, we implore you to remove all automatic machines from our ladies rooms. I've got a good idea--stick them in the mens rooms and let the guys wrestle with them for a change.