June 6, 2014

• On the 60th anniversary of D-Day, photographs of sites then and now.
• German exports rise, its industrial output increases, and its growth forecast gets a boost.
• Many laundry-solving tech startups are, like many other tech startups, competitive, self-deluding, and douchey.
• Inside the world of New York City's impoverished and understudied can collectors.
• Last of WWII's Navajo Code Talkers—men who created a code from their language to stump the Japanese—is  dead.
• FOX News hires man who created an anti-Hillary Clinton group titled C.U.N.T.
• "LOL" turns 25.
• See also: Adam Gopnik realizes "LOL" doesn't mean "lots of love."
• Copy of Arsène Houssaye's Des destinées de lame in Harvard's library found to be bound with human skin.
• Actor playing new version of Rocky on Broadway needs "all the help I can get" to maintain weight and shape.
• There are self-hating black men who date white women for contrived and pathetic reasons and I hate them.
• Cinema-recreation group to construct new versions of the 1955 and 1985 sets from Back to the Future.
• The Journal explains how Coach Klinsmann overhauled US men's soccer's style of play, without Landon Donovan.
• See also: Stop the world; it's the World Cup.
• Analysis finds the World Cup endlessly profitable for FIFA, but too costly for its host country.
• In India, moving from a locality where everybody defecates in the open to a locality where no one does makes all the difference for child mortality.
• The future of highway cooking in the American South is Indian pickles.
• Two-bedroom house built from plastic bottles is bulletproof, fireproof, and can withstand earthquakes.
• Unrelated: Ode to alcoholic ciders.