Soon, you will go off and have an awesome weekend. But in the meantime:

It seems that orange jumpsuits are de rigeur for performing autopsies of large animals. Some of the images are graphic. Via @ooga_booga)

This website encourages you to spend at least $50 a month at the local, independently-owned businesses that you’d miss if they were gone.

The world’s first open-source car.

A collection of creepy (not to mention sexist) vintage ads. My favorite is probably the shaving baby.

Finally, Things to Say During Sex: A Chart.

Summer Thursdays are good for barbecues and movies. Take it from me.

The New York Times on the recent upscaling of the humble hamburger. Plus recipes.

Have some cheese with your burger, since your Cheese Problems Have Been Solved. (Paul Collins)

A three-minute excerpt from an interview with Wallace Shawn, from the new Criterion Collection release of My Dinner with Andre.

Werner Herzog’s jungle diaries, The Conquest of the Useless, has arrived in stores, and Green Apple Books spoofs Werner Herzog’s famous monologue on the “obscenity” of nature from Les Blank’s Burden of Dreams, to mark the occasion.

Been in the same apartment for a while? Skipped spring cleaning?A twenty-minute documentary about four compulsive hoarders in Britain will remind you to get rid of your junk this weekend.

It’s been a hot day, so have a cold one.

The nation’s first public library was founded on this day in 1731, when Benjamin Franklin and fifty associates pooled their books, and annual dues to buy more books, for the common use of the members. (The first truly public library would not come along for about a century.)

Phillip Roth does some “Jewish shouting” (more like yodeling) on a “booty-shaking” dance track. I shit you not. (Via @ScottEsposito)

The Guardian UK is also tepid about Free: the book “doesn’t take the reader far beyond the notion that there’s a lot of free stuff about.”

But not everyone disagrees with Chris Anderson.

Pinocho Y Chapete: a 1920′s take on Pinocchio, by one of the most prominent Spanish comics artist of the day, Salvador Bartolozzi. (A Journey Round My Skull)

Hope it was as beautiful today in your town as it was in mine.

Had dinner yet? Dear Pork: I am in love with you. [I Made That!]

An Infinite Jest concordance, to help you during Infinite Summer. [via @Fritinancy]

Victorian hacking. (The real thing, not steampunk.) [via @alexismadrigal]

The Pirate Bay, killed with kindness. [via @filthysize]

Listen to the whole Danger Mouse / Sparkehorse / David Lynch collaboration album, Dark Night of the Soul, at NPR; because of a reported legal dispute with EMI, the book of Lynch photos may come with a blank CD-R and the note: “Use it as you will.”

A word of explanation: because the Morning starts with Coffee, the Evening starts with a Cocktail, served promptly at half-past six by your attentive host.

You can imagine the cocktail as being non-alcoholic, if you prefer; but if you choose stronger drink, moderation is advised, however impracticable that may turn out to be.

So to begin:

It turns out that Hemingway was less of a jerk than previously thought. A new edition of A Moveable Feast has been re-edited to include more material from the manuscript, in which he takes more responsibility for the breakup of his first marriage. It also goes easier on the editor’s grandmother.

Graffiti legend Michael Martin, better known as IZ THE WIZ, died on June 17th. Learn about his legacy.

Whereas Dennis McGrath has photographed people on porn sets (NSFW), Jon Haddock has taken the people out of porn (thoroughly SFW).

On Salon, Cary Tennis responds to the despair of a recent J-school grad.

Vintage fabric reprints. (Warning: link contains a mind-scalding image of bunnies and kitties — or maybe they’re bears — with balloons.)