Crips co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams’ plea to the Ca Supreme Court has been rejected.

Assuming a federal court will not intervene (a wildly safe assumption), only Gov Arnold stands between Williams and death.

The two men have met before on Venice beach where Arnold told the person he was with that Williams’ arms looked more like two legs. (The prior meeting is thrown in there for those of you who don’t find that fact that Arnold is reviewing this or any death penalty case isn’t already weird enough).

So what will Arnold do?

On one hand, few publicly-known inmates have moved in the rehab direction more than Williams who is credited (even by some critics) with helping to urge kids to avoid gangs (although some argue he still runs part of the Crips show from the joint).

On the other hand, Gov Arnold clearly has future political aspirations. Forget the need for a constitutional amendment. If Arnold grants clemency to Tookie, he will essentially be kissing a White House run goodbye. His own party would eat him alive over this issue.

But forget the politics. This story is really about surrealism.

A guy most famous for being called the Terminator is now the one person who can grant clemency in one of the most watched capital cases in the country.

The Blogosphere vets over at Corante have just launched their new Hubs. So far, there are three hubs (marketing, media and web) where editors do a nice job of pulling together the best submissions by Corante’s growing list of the top notch bloggers.

Very interesting stuff.

Good luck guys!

Michael Sippey might be onto a book idea here. Perhaps …. All I Really Needed to Know About Management I learned in Kindergarten?

Check it out the post. It’s a fun look at what we can pull from pre-school and kindergarten to make the workplace more productive.

We’re a long ways off the madness of the boom and there are much more tested and obvious revenue models these days, but as Om points out, The Return of Monetized Eyeballs is upon us.

Textdrive is now part of Joyent. This blog has been hosted by the good folks at Textdrive for some time now and I have been able to watch them take a leadership position as a sort of high-powered playground for people building cool, new things. I’ve also gotten to know Jason and Ryan (who made the dramatic error of sharing his IM handle with me).

The idea behind the merger is to combine the shared and hosted applications of Joyent with the very Web 2.0ish hosting power of TextDrive. The newly combined company is one to watch. Good luck guys.