1) E.E. Knight explains “modeling” and bookshelf presence. There’s always something knew to learn about writing and selling books.

2) Honda unveils Segway-like unicycle. Tremendously awesome and tremendously uncool at the same time. via Genreville

3) Buy your own secluded Bond-villain hideaway! If this had been built in the woods instead of the desert, I’d be showing it to my wife. via seawasp.

4) The art and science of boiling perfect eggs. via Ezra Klein

5) Will climate change mean the near-extinction of basic food crops?

6) Here’s your word of the day: Procrasturbation: to waste time by pleasuring oneself. via Savage Love. Also discussed in that linked article is the ethics of sex with zombies.