Here are some odds and ends that I’ve been saving up for a post:

• If you speak Farsi, it’s easier to buy an iPad in Tehran than in Atlanta
• Customs agents at Canadian border keep America safe and pitch a fit over chocolate eggs with toys inside them.
• I bet you didn’t know that ITAR registration was proof that a company won’t sell the design plans you give them on eBay.
• Two things Italians are good for: spaghetti all’amatriciana and keeping tap dancing shoes out of North Korea.
• Two things the U.N. is not good at: spaghetti all’amatriciana and keeping out of Iran high-powered computers that can be used in its nuclear program.
• Why Kim Jong-un needed those tap dancing shoes. (I strongly encourage you to play the embedded video; it will bring tears to your eyes.)
• And here is something to read in case you were puzzled over whether to say Burma or Myanmar.

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