Filling a large tank at the Aquarium of the Bay, in San Francisco, with dollar bills, and swimming in it.
Endowing a chair in entrepreneurial studies at Harvard Business School.
Getting a Facebook “like” thumbs-up tattooed on his ankle.
Marrying his college sweetheart, Priscilla Chan.
Vice-President Joe Biden.
Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman.
Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Liberty College, in Virginia.
Joplin High School, in Missouri.
Virginia Tech, in Virginia.
San Dimas High School, in California.
Food and supplies for the crew of the International Space Station.
The ashes of actor James Doohan, who played Scotty on the original “Star Trek” television series.
An autographed copy of “Window of Opportunity,” Newt Gingrich’s 1984 vision for space exploration.
A student science experiment examining spiders in space.
A series of floods throughout the Po River valley.
Intentional destruction, demanded by France in an appeal to the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy.
Intentional destruction, made necessary by the discovery of a potentially toxic bacterial strain in some of the cows that produce milk for the cheese.
An earthquake in northern Italy that knocked three hundred thousand wheels of cheese off their shelves.
He was convicted of treason and sentenced to thirty-three years in prison.
He was awarded the twenty-five-million dollar bounty for bin Laden’s death.
His license to practice medicine was revoked for violation of the Hippocratic oath.
He was granted asylum in the United States.
John Ashcroft.
Donald Rumsfeld.
Colin Powell.
Mitch Daniels.
“Born this Way,” by Lady Gaga.
“No Church in the Wild,” by Jay-Z and Kanye West.
“Someone Like You,” by Adele.
“Talk that Talk,” by Rihanna.
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
John F. Kennedy.
Theodore Roosevelt.
Ronald Reagan.
Herman Cain.
Donald Trump.
Michael Bloomberg.
Mel Gibson.
An operating system for cell phones.
Flickr 3.0.
A Web browser for mobile devices.
A mobile image-sharing portal.
A band of mice.
A group of midgets.
A youth hockey team.
All the living U.S. Presidents.