Highly likely to be stuck in your head, perhaps because of the marimba?

Many odd things were googled today. Went for a long walk with a friend last night, and as it's summer in Wisconsin, the conversation turned to mosquitoes, and why some people are more frequently bitten. Turns out, the mechanism isn't well established yet and varies between mosquitoes. Commonalities are carbon dioxide and lactic acid. Other factors are the ketone 1-Octen-3-ol (octenol), found in human sweat), as well as possibly blood type, body temperature, and the amount of cholesterol present on skin.  DEET apparently works by binding to insect olfactory receptors to block them. Curious.

Other interesting links are one from Facebook regarding "America's Brainest Cities", the characterisitics of which always seem slightly discriminatory to me, but whatever. A link on that page was one regarding how entrenched red Solo cups have become in pop/American culture. (That last link has a few other interesting links in it, itself.)

Finally, my cohort has taken to attending a trivia night at a local bar. The bar posts one free answer per night on their website, which last week involved, apparently, dictators with less than 2 testicles (Hitler and Spanish dictator Franco). Interesting, and apparently featured in a semi-jingoist song (Hitler Has Only Got One Testicle). Tonight's free answer is "the Ultimate Santana", question-yet-unknown.

Finally, an interesting story of a personal hero, Bill Cunningham of the street photography fame.