• Gore Vidal gives something like an interview to the Times Magazine. Dick Cavett wasn’t there to keep him from getting ornery. (Were you chaste during those years? Chased by whom?)
• Cutest baby-learning-to-walk video I’ve seen this week!
• Thing to do when in western North Carolina: see the Biltmore Estate, the biggest of the Vanderbilt houses.
• A cool 360 panorama shot of an Obama rally in Detroit.

Wikipedia has a neat section on typical breakfasts from around the world.

Notably:

In Egypt the traditional breakfast is ful medames: slow cooked fava beans (sometimes with lentils) dressed in olive oil, lemon juice and garlic.

The Mexican breakfast may be the lighter or heavier version, depending on the person or occasion. Menudo, a tripe stew considered a folk remedy for a hangover, has become a breakfast dish as well as one eaten at other meals.

For all the differences, it seems like the whole world drinks coffee.

At first I hated the look of it. Now, not so much. Of course, it’s being built regardless of what I think. Anyway, they’ve got a nice website built for it already. I don’t even want to live there a little bit, but look at that panorama. (the picture above is rendering)