Esquire: I've read about your wife-she's quite glamorous. Bill Keller: I think so, yeah.
Esquire: She dated David Gilmour of Pink Floyd and John Kerry. But you turned out to be the one.
Bill Keller: I'm a lucky guy.
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Suspicious Vans: collection of vans whose presence on your block immediately makes you want to call the police.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCKGOiauJCE] Timelapse of the New York Times online homepage from from September 2010 to July 2011.
USC student Stephen Estes took advantage of a closed 405 highway stretch to plant this almost poetic plank.
In this version of the tabloid's "they're just like us!" segments, here's former-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld getting TSA'd at Chicago O'Hare airport.
Leonard Nimoy, George Takei, DeForest Kelly and James Doohan attending the showing of the first Space Shuttle (RIP). More great shuttle photos at The Atlantic.
The unintended consequences of The Economist's popularity at a public library in Florida is that access to the magazine is now restricted.
It's also the new sexy. Any girl I see riding a bike automatically earns a +10 to her sexy attribute.
From a 1975 issue of New York magazine.
Jean-Léon Gérôme, Pygmalion and Galatea, 1890
It has a Wikipedia page so it must be for realz: Today is International Kissing Day.
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Jimm Lasser, New American Flag, 2009
Jarring contrast and juxtaposition in this photo taken after the tsunami hit Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.
Canadian Forces soldier, Cpl. Ben Vandandaigue, plays on a drum kit, on Friday, June 24, 2011, at Forward Operating Base Sperwan Ghar overlooking the Panjwaii district of Kandahar province, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
As Mother Jones remarked: Yep, this sums up our current obsession with digital documentation.
LCPL. James Edward Orr, 20, from the First Battalion Eighth Marines Alpha Company lifts weights made from barbed wire at a makeshift gym at an outpost in Kunjak in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, Feb. 17.