This cover for an unauthorised history of The Simpsons – plugged with good gossip here – seemed an extremely clever idea. But then I looked at it on Amazon, and one of the "buy this too!" sections offered me a 2008 book with much the same design concept. The new one works better, though.
• Is David Byrne a man, or is he a bicycle? His prose style, apparently, suggests bicycle. (Via.)
• The unintentional comedy of nature writing, with excellent (if ancient) hot-dog joke.
• Objects from HP Lovecraft stories are coming to life. Fortunately, none of them so far appear to have the power to send you mad through non-Euclidian geometry.
