★★★★ Sunbeam season continued; the toddler ran around and smacked the wall where his east-pointing morning shadow fell. It was chilly enough early that the now-first-grader needed his windbreaker under his backpack. Sun was in the candidates’ eyes as they stood trying to be noticed without blocking the sidewalk outside the school too much. By midmorning, the toddler — the preschooler, now — was fine without a hoodie. Some high clouds moved in to scatter the light. It was too nice to go underground right away. A man in a tartan kilt headed up Broadway, toward Lincoln Center. By the work day’s end, as breezes drifted around downtown, dress shirts were largely unwilted. A southbound woman brushed into a northbound man, part of a couple, and apologized. A pace or two later, his northbound female companion grabbed his face and covered it with a flurry of kisses.

“Feral pig ‘drinks 18 cans of beer, fights cow and then passes out drunk under tree’”

This is less than two minutes, and if it is not exactly what you need in your life right now I’ll give you your money back. [Via]

“They might not admit it, but youngsters really do like the music their parents listened to, a study suggests.”

“Why Aren’t There More People Of Color In Craft Brewing?”

“[N]ew research shows that despite the conventional weight-loss wisdom, the idea that eating breakfast helps you lose weight stems largely from misconstrued studies.” Look, here’s the deal: You’re not going to lose weight. You’re not a kid any more, and your body can barely get by doing what it’s supposed to do now, particularly given the crap you put into it, let alone metabolize things the way it did when you were in your teens. You are just going to get fatter. Maybe if you go to the gym and eat right and get the correct amount of sleep you will shave off a couple of pounds, but all of that effort is extremely unpleasant and at your age a couple of pounds one way or the other don’t make much of a difference, because when people look at you all they see is “old.” Correction: they don’t see anything, because you have passed the point where you are considered some kind of viable sex-doing target. So you’re gonna gain weight. It is more or less inexorable. The good news is eventually you are going to die, and you won’t believe how thin you’ll get then.

“Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has apologized for postponing an execution scheduled for Tuesday to accommodate a campaign fundraiser.”

Left: Dallas Cowboys Quarterback Tony Romo, age 17. Right: Irish Sweeper in Fall River Iron Works, age 17, circa 1900.

Dallas Cowboys
Arlington, TX
Attendance: 87047
Emigrants from Ireland in one year after the most recent recession

Washington Redskins
Landover, MD
Attendance: 83172
Number of people employed by the coal mining industry in the United States

New York Giants
East Rutherford, NJ
Attendance: 79019
Number of Americans the government was unable to recover and identify immediately after WWII

New York Jets
East Rutherford, NJ
Attendance: 78596
Number of people who applied for a one-way trip to Mars over a two-week period

Denver Broncos
Denver, CO
Attendance: 74908
Number of people forced to evacuate after flooding in Calgary earlier this year

Carolina Panthers
Charlotte, NC
Attendance: 72620
Number of ladybugs released into the Mall of America to control the aphid population

Baltimore Ravens
Baltimore, MD
Attendance: 71227
Number of people who crossed the Bulgaria-Greece border on May 1, 2013 (both directions)

Houston Texans
Houston, TX
Attendance: 71080
Number of likes for the Kodiak, Alaska Walmart, in that contest to send Pitbull to a Walmart

Green Bay Packers
Green Bay, WI
Attendance: 70095
Number of people killed in Syria in the revolt against Assad — as of February, 2013

New Orleans Saints
New Orleans, LA
Attendance: 70038
Number of people who have signed a petition asking for a Women’s Tour de France

San Francisco 49ers
San Francisco, CA
Attendance: 69732
Number of people who signed up to take the University of Florida’s free online course “Fundamentals of Human Nutrition”

Philadelphia Eagles
Philadelphia, PA
Attendance: 69144
Number of people stopped under the UK’s Schedule 7 in 2011–12, which allows the police to stop and question people traveling through airports to determine whether they are involved in terrorism and hold them for up to 9 hours

Tennessee Titans
Nashville, TN
Attendance: 69143
Number of U.S. pedestrians injured (not killed) in motor vehicle crashes in 2011

New England Patriots
Foxborough, MA
Attendance: 68756
Cap on number of Burning Man attendees this year

Atlanta Falcons
Atlanta, GA
Attendance: 67850
Number of mosquito nets distributed by the Tanzanian Red Cross to refugees (mostly from DRC & Burundi) this July

Miami Dolphins
Miami Gardens, FL
Attendance: 67744
Number of buildings in the New York City flood zone

Kansas City Chiefs
Kansas City, MO
Attendance: 67672
Number of people surveyed by the US Dept of Health and Human Services’ National Survey on Drug Use, which showed that the number of people who have used heroin in the last 12 months has almost doubled since 2007

Seattle Seahawks
Seattle, WA
Attendance: 66992
Number of people receiving out-patient care served by Interfaith Medical Center in Bed-Stuy, which is currently in bankruptcy court and likely to close this month

Indianapolis Colts
Indianapolis, IN
Attendance: 66975
Number of cans of Karicare baby formula recalled in New Zealand in a botulism scare

Cleveland Browns
Cleveland, OH
Attendance: 66116
Number of people following the official twitter account of Sweden

San Diego Chargers
San Diego, CA
Attendance: 65530
Cap on the number of H1-B visas (the ones for highly skilled foreign workers) available for first-time applicants annually. The cap was reached within 5 days this year.

Buffalo Bills
Orchard Park, NY
Attendance: 63195
Number of entries submitted to Tim Hortons’ Duelling Donuts competition

Pittsburgh Steelers
Pittsburgh, PA
Attendance: 63083
Number of internally displaced persons affected by violence in Abu Kershola, Sudan, by the end of May

Jacksonville Jaguars
Jacksonville, FL
Attendance: 63032
Number of American soldiers in Afghanistan

Arizona Cardinals
Glendale, AZ
Attendance: 62774
Eligible voters in SC State Senate District 42 (Charleston area). The seat is vacant following some ethics violations by now-former Sen. Robert Ford.

Chicago Bears
Chicago, IL
Attendance: 62195
Membership of the American Geophysical Union

Cincinnati Bengals
Cincinnati, OH
Attendance: 60364
Number of bees removed from a Utah cabin earlier this year — “15 pounds of bees,” according to beekeeper Vic Bachman

Minnesota Vikings
Minneapolis, MN
Attendance: 58751
Number of Honda Accords stolen last year

Detroit Lions
Detroit, MI
Attendance: 56285
Number of people who shared a photo on Facebook of high heel cupcakes

St. Louis Rams
St. Louis, MO
Attendance: 52992
Estimate of cases of cervical cancer that could be prevented by having girls currently aged 12 or under vaccinated for HPV

Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Tampa, FL
Attendance: 49314
Number of stray dogs in Detroit

Oakland Raiders
Oakland, CA
Attendance: 46431
Number of new AmeriCorps members this year

Victoria Johnson is a cartographer by trade.

Ugh, every year the same question: “What am I going to get the kids for 9/11?” I mean, how many stuffed animal search and rescue German shepherds can you really give and still expect to be the cool cousin?

I know nothing of this band, but if Pram were on 4AD in 1985 this is exactly how they’d sound. If that seems like something you’d be into, by all means press play. [Via]