Today’s Starbucks Alter Ego comes from RJ. Turns out, Starbucks is the only place on earth where RJ is spelled with five letters.

A colleague at work was telling me about a phone mishap on the weekend, prompting me to offer up a recommendation for a replacement.  It made me realize that, for the first time in my life, I’ve finally discovered a cordless phone that delivers on quality, performance and price.

My friend Ken Dawson just posted a funny photo on Facebook. The control tower at the airport in Cancun has a big-name sponsor.

Dana submitted today’s Starbucks Alter Ego. She had three drinks to order so to avoid confusion she asked the barista on duty to label them with initials—‘A’ on one, ‘D’ on the next and ‘I’ on the last.

“CBS Taps Italian President Silvio Berlusconi to Replace Charlie Sheen in ‘Two and a Half Men.’” “From Pharma to Table: The McDonald’s-Pfizer Merger.” “Pope Reopens Trial of Galileo.” These are all headlines in today’s New York Times. Got your attention? So will the very funny and sadly, not entirely implausible, “last edition” of the paper.

When you lean back to check out the night sky, you’re only getting part of the picture. What would it take to get the whole picture? It would take six cameras, lugged over 60,000 miles to shoot 37,440 photos that would then be digitally stitched together to create a “360-degree view of the Milky Way, planets and stars in their true natural colors.”

When I was in India a month ago we had the great privilege of spotting a tiger in the wild in Ranthambore National Park. So I was unduly excited this morning to see that the World Wildlife Fund had captured some very rare video of tigers and their cubs.

Today’s Starbucks Alter Ego comes from Devon, who says that admittedly, her name might cause some is-it-a-girl, is-it-a-boy confusion when written but in person she’s pretty sure it’s obvious. Not, apparently, to the baristas at Starbucks.

Mark Tuesday, June 14th on your calendar and join Pat at Bell House in Brooklyn for a night of pop culture trivia in support of VH1 Save the Music Foundation.