Portrait of Edouard and Marie-Louise Pailleron. Those interested in painting should watch the embedded clip.

Hyperion’s strange craters.

China’s holdings of US debt jump 30 percent. Not really news. Just something that we would already know if Brad Setser was still blogging. Also falsifies all those stories about China unloading US debt.

Fernando Alonso has criticised his government’s decision to lower the national speed limit to 68mph, warning that it will be “difficult to stay awake” at that speed. A silly story, but we sympathize. Of course, we have trouble staying awake at any speed so what do we know?