Gedblog: Coke-can redesign: it's a beautiful thing

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Slate: Who's not reading Harry Potter? His peers.
I'd never heard the counter-culture explanation (

And as the media blitz went on and on, summer after summer, I started to have the feeling that I was reading over America's shoulder, and she had already underlined all the best passages. That countercultural response is more familiar to me now, but at the time, I just felt fatigue. I wanted to read, not be a part of a phenomenon.

) and it rings true, to me. Interesting. Not the reason I didn't read Harry Potter at first, but definitely something I picked up along the way.

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Slate: Does the ethanol backlash make sense?
I disagree, but food for thought.

via Dethroner: Man vs. Wild staged? Say it ain't so!

Giz: Airplane graveyard
Anyone who's been to Arizona has seen planes like these, but the photographs here are pretty awesome.