Pebbles, Vol. 38

1. "John le Carré's conduct in your pages is like nothing so much as that of a man who, having relieved himself in his own hat, makes haste to clamp the brimming chapeau on his head." John le Carré and Salman Rushdie exchange letters; Christopher Hitchens takes the prize.

2. Movie scene parodies in The Simpsons compared to the originals (via)

3. This xkcd comic made me laugh out loud twice; once when I read the comic and once when I read the hover text.

4. The future of shopping? (via)

5. Doubts about priming effects (via) and the problem of replicability more generally

6. Charity analysis: overhead isn't the opposite of effectiveness.

7. Gottfried Benn wird verbessert