Outsource your CEO -- hmmm, not bad. I happen to like the CEO of my company...but then again, I'm just a contractor, what do I know??

Europe is huge -- and getting taller every minute. Very interesting New Yorker piece on "anthropometric historians" and the finding that while Europeans are getting taller (and healthier), Americans are stalled at a mere average height of 5'9" and, of course, getting wider.

Hail Kinja! -- Today's launch day for Kinja, a weblog portal which allows you to create a "digest" of your favorite blogs, continually refreshed during the day. Thus, you can look at one page and see the latest posts by your usual round of bloggers. Ahem. And...it's free!

This is officially the weirdest story of the day -- and the best last line!

Going, going, gone for the Boston Public Schools -- but in a good way! Check out the Globe's Auction for Education, an online bid-fest to raise money for the Newspapers in Education Foundation. There's some pretty cool loot -- from an autographed Derek Lowe baseball to a book group dinner at No. 9 Park with the author of Memoirs of a Geisha.