Around the Internet

• Christopher Beam at Slate discusses the Library of Congress' Twitter archive.
• J.L. Bell at Boston 1775 tells the story of Asahel Porter (with gravestone!).
• Henry Louis Gates, Jr. addresses the complexity of the Atlantic slave trade in the New York Times.
• A dying man sells ad space on his urn to save his family the expense of his cremation.
• Laura Wattenberg (and readers) eagerly await the release of the 2009 Social Security name list (any day now!).