• Hope they boned up on their nighttime maneuvers. [WOAI]
• Stay inside this summer and get free books from Barnes & Noble, just for reading. It’s a dark spiral of increasing literacy. [NoOnesHome]
• When the president of the cruise ship company comes forward to apologize, does he have a funny little admiral’s hat and epaulets? [CruiseCritic]
• Usually its the airlines that stink too much to fly, not the passengers. [Ananova]
• Digg users rush to fill AOL’s Digg ripoff with stories about AOL’s Digg ripoff, inadvertently swelling the member list AOL can tout to advertisers in the process. [Valleywag]

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