I have no idea if it will or won't; just wanted to put down a marker for saying something stupid about an Apple product that doesn't exist. FIRST!

We don't know if they're making one, but someone took a picture of a black car with cameras, and Apple owns it, so. As this article notes, Apple doesn't have the permission to test self-driving cars, but could be working with someone who does. It's not an absurd idea, but it goes against the stupid "Apple can't innovate" idea - unless you subscribe to the theory that Apple buying other companies is proof they can't invent anything. (A reminder: Apple bought the company that came up with an MP3 jukebox, and released it as iTunes. Back in the day when they were innovating EVERYTHING and inventing new products every fortnight.) If they do make a self-driving car, it'll probably come out a few years after Google's version, and then we'll bring the wonderful, joyous world of meaningless flame wars about operating systems to cars. But why read me on the matter when you can enjoy the Macalope? The master of the Apple-Troll Dismantlement.

BOOKS About that "To Kill a Mockingbird" sequel, Jezebel notes:

And this matters, because:

PASTTIMES Meet the guy who's made 45,000 Wikipedia edits to change one phrase! In other words, take an amusing Onion brief, extract the humor, and voila, real life.

OR: Meet the guy who chopped off his nose and had stuff put in his head so he can look like the Red Skull, Captain America's nemesis. Warning: you will see a guy who chopped off his nose and had stuff put in his head so he can look like the Red Skull.

OR: Meet the guy who made a model of Pompeii with 190K Lego pieces. Sorry, LEGO pieces.

OR: Catch up with the Quaids! Remember them? Key moment:

As the article notes, it's possible that Quaid thinks "Independence Day" really happened.

VOTD Happy dancing light poles.