A slightly larger gallery of Carl Warner foodscapes than the BBC story I bookmarked last year.

“Is the beloved paper dictionary doomed to extinction? In this infectiously exuberant talk, leading lexicographer Erin McKean looks at the many ways today’s print dictionary is poised for transformation.”

“One grass-roots campaign isn’t enough to turn around the fact that public life is still in steep decline in the U.S., or that we’re becoming increasingly less likely to talk to — let alone pal around with — people who don’t share our worldview or party affiliation. That’s where cafes and bars and diners come in.”

“Through seven years of war an exclusive club has quietly flourished at the intersection of network news and wartime commerce. Its members, mostly retired generals, have had a foot in both camps as influential network military analysts and defense industry rainmakers. It is a deeply opaque world, a place of privileged access to senior government officials, where war commentary can fit hand in glove with undisclosed commercial interests and network executives are sometimes oblivious to possible conflicts of interest.”

A series of classic photos of balloons from the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade