Giving, and owning, the intangible...

• Thu, 18:12: I need a single malt whiskey recommendation, internet. Get on the case!
• Fri, 09:16: A young man rides his bike from Shanghai to London (8,699 miles.) http://t.co/Xcj7vVt
• Fri, 09:18: RT @LettersOfNote: In 1891, Robert Louis Stevenson gave his birthday to a young girl: http://bit.ly/ocSAUn
• Fri, 09:21: Internet you are disappointing me on the Scotch recommendations... #throwmeabonehere #throwmeabunnahabhainhere
• Fri, 10:40: They say the brain has no nerves and is therefore incapable of sensing pain. So what is it trying to prove with headaches? #whatupbrain
• Fri, 10:41: RT @freakonomics: Can You Trademark a Color? A high fashion showdown between Christian Louboutin and Yves St. Laurent. http://ow.ly/61QAg

The title refers to Rbt Louis Stevenson "giving" a young girl his birthday, and the "Color War" going on between Christian Louboutin and Yves St. Laurent over whether red soles on shoes can be copyrighted.

The Freakanomics blog is asking if it is possible to trademark a color, but that question has been and gone, it's just one of the many exploits of Yves Klein, an avante garde artist who (among other things) claimed he could fly, threw gold received as payments from people wanting to "own the void" into the Thames, "painted" using nude women as brushes, and invented his very own color of blue, which he patented.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Klein_Blue

"As I lay stretched upon the beach of Nice, I began to feel hatred for birds which flew back and forth across my blue sky, cloudless sky, because they tried to bore holes in my greatest and most beautiful work." -Yves Klein

The internet came through with the scotch recommendations, Talisker Distiller's Edition. Local whiskey specialty store "Cask" has it, so I'll be picking up a bottle before too long.

In keeping with "intangibility," Whiskey is from the Gaelic, "uisce beatha" pronounced as if one were saying "Bowisky" in pig latin: "Oh-wiskey-Bay." It means "water of life." The Gaelic term itself is a bastardization of the actual Latin word "aquavitae" which was a generic term used to refer to distilled spirits.