Barack Obama is a BIG FAN of the blogs! "Offbeat" blogs, even! OMG. So exciting. Shadowy White House spinmasters have finally leaked to the Washington Post the big Obama Fave Offbeat Blog List!

What do you do after you unload your Internet-based conference-calling service for $38.5 million? You build a 6000-square-foot house, of course. And if you're ConferenceCall.com founder and Plano, Texas resident Kevin Scherer, you make sure the bathroom includes a urinal — and that it gets lavish treatment in the New York Times. Your new, well-to-do friends might have the cash to spend on similarly tacky trophies to their manhood: But do their urinals have glamour shots in the Times? Didn't think so. Among Scherer's entrepreneurial achievements: Employee retention. A 2002 press release bragged that 20% of his employees had been with the company more than 3 years. Or, looked at another way, 80% of the employees were, well, flushed away.