Remembering Clark Gable on this birthday, here with David O.Selznick on the set of GONE WITH THE WIND (‘39)

Young woman writes her boyfriend in the Navy a thank-you note for the bleached skull of a Japanese soldier he sent her (LIFE Magazine - May 22, 1944)

I’m grateful for the iPad and social media because without them I wouldn’t be able to stare at a screen for an hour and a half at shit I’m not really interested in when I should be getting ready for bed.

I’m becoming convinced, for the third or fourth time in as many years, that the hassles of DevonThink are not worth the benefits. At least for me.

Your mileage, as they used to say in car commercials, may vary.

But this seems to be an app I need to try for about a month every year and a half or so.

Asian countries have a century of tradition wearing face masks, and they’re starting to appear in the west. But their effectiveness is disputed. [The Guardian]

Chicago is getting a “Princess Bride” themed popup bar - nbcchicago.com

Have fun storming the castle!

Stephen King quits Facebook over concerns of ‘false information’ - CNN

The Democrat candidate for President this year could win the popular vote by six percentage points – and lose the election. Similarly, Democrats could win decisive majority votes for House and Senate, and lose both houses.

The Electoral College, the Senate, & other ways our democracy is rigged [Ian Millhiser/Vox]

Why this Seattle geek finally gave up and bought a car four years after going ‘full Uber’ [Kurt Schlosser/GeekWire]

“… the golden era of massively-subsidized car sharing is coming to a close.”

Fractured America is uniting in its hatred of expatriate Californians [Derek Thompson/The Atlantic]

Sammy is having a moment with my sweaty exercise T-shirt.

Jim Whitehurst Becomes President of IBM. Why? He gets Culture. [Jono Bacon/Forbes]

IBM’s New CEO Is Mastermind Behind Cloud Strategy for Growth [Olivia Carville/Bloomberg]

Why Iowa? [Dan Zak/The Washington Post]

I have been to Iowa more than once, and liked it.

South Carolina seeks volunteer pig cuddlers [CNN]

I foresee a career change.

Headline of the week: As a 28-Year-Old Latino, I’m Shocked My New Novel, Memoirs of a Middle-Aged White Lady, Has Been So Poorly Received [McSweeney’s Internet Tendency]

An intriguing list of “little-known but obvious facts”.

The word “helicopter” has two components. They aren’t “heli” and “copter”. They are “helico” and “pter”. “Helico” (helix) and “pter” (wing, like with “pterodactyl”)…

u/TikiTC asked on r/askreddit: “What’s a little-known but obvious fact that will immediately make all of us feel stupid?” Many of the 20,000+ replies are funny, useful, and fascinating

[Mark Frauenfelder/Boing Boing]