Eight Items or Less: $1 Million Worth of Typewriters and a Bea Arthur Tribute

1. Someone has been twittering Luc Sante's translation of French journalist Félix Fénéon's Novels in Three Lines. (via @juliandibbell)

2. In the next three years, the NYPD will spend $1 million on typewriters.

3. We dare you to look at this smile and tell us Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche isn't the happiest man in the world. Then we dare you to pronounce his name.

4. "Berlusconi is our own Kung Fu Panda," claims Slajov Žižek. (via The Awl)

5. Christie's new iPhone app unfortunately will not let you place bids on the go.

6. In the year two thousand... a 1985 artist's rendering of the future King of Pop. (via Rap Radar)

7. As part of the HOT! Festival, writer Sharyn Jackson will host a tribute to the late Bea Arthur at Dixon Place on July 31. (Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie St., (212) 219-0736. 8:30 p.m. )