Amid the self-aggrandizing and back-stabbery revealed in yesterday's Nick Bilton excerpt, one subtler piece of strange Twitter history: Al Gore wanted to buy it for the worst reason.

Twitter co-creator whose real name is actually Biz Stone has a new project called "Jelly." No one knows what it is, other than an epicenter of vagaries and tech intrigue. Now it's got big, rich new investors. Whatever it is.