I hope the poor PR intern who wrote the Wheat Thins memo to Stephen Colbert has a great sense of humor, the better to be able to handle the complete mocking of said memo by said Stephen Colbert. Hilarious.
In defense of loitering, from The Atlantic.
When we lived in Syria, Jeremy and I adopted the local habit of sleeping for 5-6 hours, then waking up in the morning, and then taking a long afternoon siesta sleep. I guess it was kind of like this. [HT Jeremy]
It would be great to have babysitters on airplanes, wouldn't it?
WTF QR codes. [HT Andrew]
Five years in Damascus, + hanging the old flag of Syria on a bridge in Mezze. [HT Jeremy]