“So then one must eliminate the other. A player can never stay, stay, stay because, according to you, he would then be a stayer and not a player.” In McSweeney’s, Taylor Swift has a dialogue with Socrates.

+ BBC on the mysterious origins of punctuation. I’ve always been more interested in its often mysterious disappearance.

+ Australia’s urgent plea to shear overgrown sheep. (Related: It’s photo day for my son’s fourth grade class.)

+ The steepest hills in San Francisco. (No one has calves like we do.)