Sarah Palin‘s new book, America By Heart, is set for release next Tuesday. Savvy internet readers, however, have already gotten a taste for what’s in store thanks to Gawker, which scrounged up some leaked pages and posted them last Tuesday. While the excerpts didn’t tell us anything we didn’t know about Palin already– she is proud of her family, supports the Tea Party– the book’s publisher, Harper Collins, is not happy and has sent their lawyers after Gawker for leaking the text.

Nick Douglas‘ Twitter Wit is a compendium of what he bills as “the funniest tweets of all time,” so the top five from those should be hi-larious. Right? Eh, you can decide that for yourself, but the point is, Douglas and publisher Harper Collins picked their five favorite Tweets from the book for a new promotion, which is about as un-Twitter as it gets: Inviting people to make a video based on one of those tweets. The filming! The editing! The uploading! Geesh, 140 characters never sounded so time-consuming.