¶ What’s for breakfast? (Let There Be Blogs; via  reddit)

¶ Deutschlands “schönste” Schulnamen. (Strange Maps)

¶ How long since Thunderball? (engadget; via  The Morning News)

¶ Orbit designs a book cover. (via The Awl)

¶ Jean Ruaud’s crooked flues. (Mnémoglyphes)

¶ More Michigan Central Station photographs. (The Infrastructurist)

¶ Hilobrow‘s newly-appointed magister ludi illustrates krabbatophily.

¶ Daughter of film royalty — certainly. But with those parents? (Café Muscato)

¶ All-purpose trailer. (Gawker)

¶ Exploding banana mask: demented Zen. (via The Awl)

¶ Vintage Micro Fish Reader. (You Suck at Craigslist)

¶ Baby Gaga. (The Awl)

¶ Rush Limbaugh’s House of Horribles. (Gawker; via Joe.My.God)

¶ You never know: Harry Truman’s last letter written as vice president — signed later, too. (Letters of Note)

¶ Why You Can’t Work At Work. (Big Think; via Felix Salmon)

¶ Shocking cat abuse — seriously! (The Awl)

¶ Rita’s Living Room — of course we love it; it’s green! (The Best Part)

¶ Fallen branch sizzles, then fizzles. (via MetaFilter)

¶ New Type York (via kottke.org)

¶ Crop Art of Japan. (Hoax Slayer)

¶ Tyler Coates tries ChatRoulette. (The Awl.)

¶ As God Is My Waitress! (@  Joe.My.God)

¶ Tourism spots from Lars von Drear. (The Onion)

¶ Photographs by Jesse Speer (via The Online Photographer)

¶ Writing at cross-purposes. (amassblog)

¶ HBO 1983: An unforgettable intro. But, you know, it really does look almost thirty years old. Not to mention what it sounds like. (Brain Pickings)

¶ The Litwit dusts off the Tour Eiffel.

¶ Carnivorous plants and how they — do their thing. (National Geographic; via kottke.org)

¶ Russian wooden churches. (arkinet; via The Morning News)

¶ Recovering Lolita. (Venus febriculosa ; via Brainiac)

¶ Famous stars! Talk! About the Best! Performance! (s)! of the Past Ten Years. The range of intelligence on display is even greater than we expected it to be. (NYT; via The Awl)

¶ Sonneteers will be hanged. (Letters of Note)

¶ The Body Politic. (Strange Maps)

¶ Eddie Bauer, 1966. (A Continuous Lean)

¶ T-Shirt War. (via  MetaFilter)

¶ Crazy Apartments. (via Joe.My.God)

¶ Zooming in on the Mandelbrot to e.214. (kottke.org)

¶ The Litwit is in Paris.

¶ This is why nobody writes to authors. Harlan Ellison has  a LOT to answer for. (Letters of Note)

¶ The Persophone Post.  (via ? — Sorry!)

¶ Some dust jackets and book covers for Philip K Dick. (Spine Out; via The Second Pass)

¶ Europe’s “alcohol belts” — where wine, beer, or spirits are preferred (and why Hungary may be more Mediterranean than you think). (Strange Maps)

¶ Haiti, by Peter Turnley (The Online Photographer)

¶ “Most Hated Building.” (via Things Magazine)

¶ Ampersands. (via The Best Part)

¶ Heavy Industry.

¶ Bon weekend à tous!

¶ Never has Bill Clinton looked more like Elvis Presley.

¶ An idiot of the 33rd degree.

¶ We wonder what Louis would have made of this simple  tribute, although we think it’s peachy.

¶ World’s largest book — an atlas from 1660. (via Arts Journal)

¶ Lizbeth Mitty: Recent Paintings.

¶ Bryan Schutmaat: Recent Photographs. (via The Best Part)

¶ Dams Across America. (via Design Observer)

¶ Googolopoly. (via reddit)

¶ Electoral College Reform (via Joe.My.God)

¶ Visualizing the campaign finance case. (via Marginal Revolution)

¶ Crayola’s Law.

¶ Pat Metheny’s Orchestrion, coming out next week. (via About Last Night)

¶ The wildly inappropriate paperback covers of Tutis. (via The Second Pass)

¶ Charting the Beatles. Our favorite: the work schedule, 1963-1966. From constant performance to occasional recording.

¶ Kevin Cooley’s saturated colors. (via  The Best Part)

¶ Just what Haitians need: talking Bibles.

¶ Kids today. Glad I got rid of the microwave!  (via Felix Salmon)