I really, really want one of these. But I shall have to move to somewhere with more than one floor first.

• Book titles it could be difficult to ignore (especially if you're judging the Diagram prize): "Edison's Concrete Piano: Flying Tanks, Six-Nippled Sheep, Walk-on-Water Shoes and 12 Other Flops from Great Inventors".

• Nabokov captured in butterfly specimen cases.

• Why would a Twilight vampire drive a Volvo? The power of product placement.

• Almost certainly the best way to think of "The best way to think of".