Antarctic minke whales are slightly larger than common minke whales, and are therefore cooler than them.

• Yesterday, Amazon Publishing announced a new biography series called “Icons.” The first ten subjects will be: Jesus, Josef Stalin, Lucian Freud, J.D. Salinger, Edgar Allen Poe, Vincent Van Gogh, Ernest Hemingway, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock, and Hannah Arendt. So, it looks like Amazon is following the New York Review of Books model when it comes to gender representation. (The Atlantic Wire)
• Judge Cote, and lawyers from Apple and the DOJ will discuss Apple’s punishment in the ebook price-fixing case. (PaidContent)
• A quiet revolution’s underway on the libraries and e-books front in California, Kansas, and possibly also Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Arizona. (Library Journal)
• Have you heard that Jim Behrle‘s the new head of the new Conceptual Poetry Movement? If you monitor the slushpile email address of any major magazines lately, you might have. Here’s Jim’s emails submitting his conceptual poems to People, Time, the Atlantic, Cosmo, the Christian Science Monitor, the New Yorker, and others. (Conceptual Poetry)
• “Translation may not be possible, but it can be impossible in the sense of creating alternative spaces.” Johannes Göransson continues to kick a vast and hilly acrage of ass in his stint as a guest blogger on Poetry magazine’s Harriet Blog
• Throw some money at this new bookstore Hullabaloo in Crown Heights Brooklyn. It looks like it could be amazing. (Kickstarter)

A song for Thursday: “Running Thru The Jungle” by Heems