Inside Politics Weekend: At last

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By Jennifer Harper

At last

Just so you know, a researcher from the University of California at Los Angeles says he knows, sort of, where Osama bin Laden is hiding.

Using "distance-decay" theories about the distribution of wildlife and factoring in security and logistical needs of the "terrorist recluse," bio-geographer Thomas Gillespie has extrapolated a specific spot. Bin Laden's most likely location is the town of Parachinar in the Karrum tribal regions of northwest Pakistan, about 12 miles inside the border.

He's even narrowed it down to three houses, based on satellite photographs. One has a nice garden, the researcher revealed, advocating that the U.S. "investigate — but not bomb — the three buildings."

The revelation is "one of the most important political questions of our time," Mr. Gillespie said, and he suggests that he's ready to update his research, published in the MIT International Review, with fresh intelligence information.

So, uh, keep your eye on Parachinar. There's still a $25 million reward.

Blog bog

Time magazine has been sorting through all the cultural and political blogs to determine the "top 25" — not an easy task, given that there are now 103 million blogs pulsating online, according to Neilsen, which tracks such things. An additional 41,000 blogs are typically created each day, incidentally.

Meanwhile, Time has named Talking Points Memo, the Huffington Post, Lifehacker, Metafilter and Andrew Sullivan's Deep Dish as the top five of their list.

What's noteworthy is Time's bold condemnation of The Daily Kos, a fearsome presence that no one messed around with in past years. But Time and time march on, apparently. The magazine listed the site as one of the five most "overrated" blogs.