Thanks the Mike McCabe at the Archive, I now have a cool vanity bitcoin address. As in all things bitcoin, there is no central point of control, even on vanity addresses. Basically one just computes lots of different addresses until you find one you like, and then use it. By using it, then others can find that you have it by looking at the public blockchain (the main tool for this, firstbits, is down at the moment unfortunately.) People are now grabbing ones that start with 1xxx (all addresses have to start with one) and then getting xxx. Mike said that no one had grabbed 1Sushi, and now it is gone, so maybe there is a land grab going on. I grabbed mine, like I got kahle.org long ago.
Bitcoin image from http://bitcoinme.com/ which has a good intro video
1KAHLE1taA85EXaVm1XuVYtbGp839MyEzB
bitcoin:1KAHLE1taA85EXaVm1XuVYtbGp839MyEzB?label=BrewsterKahle