KRAKEN!  First-ever photo of a giant motherfucking squid in its natural environment, one kilometer below the surface of the north Pacific Ocean.

IT'S A TECH WORLD, AFTER ALL:  Walt Disney World is seeking to enhance the visitor experience with RFID-equipped bracelets to better track and market to each individual's preferences (including allowing the Princesses to know your daughter's name without having to ask), plus innovations like booking FastPasses and VIP seating at parades before heading to Orlando.  (Y'know what I'd like? An official, reliable smartphone app tracking wait times for all the rides.)

RICHARD BEN CRAMER (1950-2013):  Cancer fucking sucks. If you've never read Cramer's What It Takes, buckle down for 1000+ pages (and that's why we have e-readers) of the most masterful, insightful writing about politics you'll ever have the joy of reading—and it regards a presidential campaign (1988) which you wouldn't think merited such attention. But Cramer uses old-school research and access, combined with New Journalism vividness, to reveal the character of six men who seek the Presidency (Bush, Dole, Dukakis, Gephart, Hart, Biden) in such a compelling way as to make the tactics and daily tick-tock of the campaign almost secondary. Dole the recovering war hero; Dukakis the insufferable prig; Biden the exuberant climber devastated by tragedy and then undermined by his own actions ... it's all there. I only wish there were some suitable excerpts online, but I'm finding them hard to locate.

Cramer was also heralded as a sports writer, and for that we do have excerpts, below the fold:

CHEF ETTORE BOIARDI WANTS TO KNOW AS WELL:  Commenter Jordan has a question for the ALOTT5MA Language Expansion Desk:

I just saw on Facebook that Huell Howser had died, and I had this weird feeling because, well, I didn't know he was a real person. I had assumed he was just some wacky character James Adomian had made up for Comedy Bang! Bang! Now I don't know how to describe how I feel; it's not premorse, although it has the same surprise that the person in question was living and regret that now they are not. Any suggestions?

FLAT IRON STEGOSAURUS: Someone took the time to try to figure out what cut of dinosaur meat would be tastiest.

HIPPING AND THE HOPPING WITH THE BIPPING AND THE BOPPING:  I happened to be flipping around the tv late Friday when Bill Cosby showed up on Jimmy Fallon's show and ended up talking to The Roots and reviving some North Philly/South Philly tensions. Cosby's cadence and timing, even now at the age of 75, remains a national treasure.

IN THE MINDS OF THE MEN ON THE FIELD AND THE ONES ON THE SIDELINES WEARING HEADSETS, THIS WAS NOT MEDICAL MALPRACTICE. IT WAS PLAYOFF FOOTBALL: Slate's Josh Levin has some thoughts on RG3, Mike Shanahan, and football culture.