Some reading material from around the internet:
Brangelina are now engaged.
The LAPD is using computers to predict crimes before they happen.
Kim Jong Un speaks publicly for the first time.
Which fictional character shares your birthday?
Baby found alive in morgue hours after being declared dead.
Whatever happened to the iceberg that sank the Titanic?
Very few drivers admit to being tailgaters.
The Office may get rebooted next season.
Finally, a trailer for Rian Johnson’s Looper, a film starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis as the same time traveling hitman.
Is Maggie Smith leaving Downton Abbey?
Tom Hanks to possibly star as Walt Disney in a film about the backstory on Mary Poppins.
A doctor reviews the science on House.
Kevin Costner really did ask Princess Diana to be in The Bodyguard.
For more information about this and other deadlines, see here.
Most of the pictures in this post are of “Home,” a recent sculptural art installation by a very talented artist named Miler Lagos. You can find more information about this project here and here.
J.K. Rowling’s post-Potter book for adults has a title now: The Casual Vacancy.
Bad ass contemporary American poets.
Literary classics with slang makeovers.
Antitrust regulation, price fixing, and e-books.
The 10 most frequently challenged library books.
A video of Tao Lin reading a poem of his called, “Whale,” which may be the most annoying, clever, and also annoying poem in the world.
BTW, it’s National Poetry Month!
What do you think of the smell of a used book?
Watch 10 celebrities reading famous poems aloud, including Bill Murray reading a poem called “Another Reason I Don’t Keep a Gun in the House” by Billy Collins to construction workers below…
Watch a corgi get vacuumed.
Pizza Hut introduces hot dog-stuffed crust pizza in the UK.
John Cleese on how to be creative.
How to get tax breaks by doing things in space.
Classic video games reimagined as children’s books.
A guide to finding sunglasses for lesser known face shapes.
How to blog.
from here.
Physicists continue work to abolish time as the fourth dimension of space.
Swedish town rocked by second child exorcism.
What professors earn.
What a new study of the evolution of names reveals about China.
Scientists count Emperor Penguins from space.
New space propulsion technology could help clean up Earth orbit.
Star making in France.
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