Reading While Eating for June 14: Time Out

In today's must-reads for your lunch break: tigers, cats and Mark Duplass.

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, right, calls a time-out during a multiple-part question from an Indian journalist, as India's Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna smiles during their news conference at the U.S.-India Strategic Dialogue in Washington June 13, 2012.

‘Facebook for Cats’: Presenting Meowbook, a place where cat lovers can share their love of cats with other cat lovers. We thought that’s what the entire Internet was for. (BuzzFeed)

Why Are Traffic Lights Red and Green? Because if they were all yellow we wouldn’t get anywhere! No, seriously, there is an explanation for this. (Mental Floss)

Mark Duplass Talks to TIME: With five films out this summer, he’s the hardest working man in Hollywood. And don’t forget The League! (TIME.com)

Off With His Head: HBO is “deeply dismayed” that the hit fantasy series Game of Thrones may have accidentally beheaded George W. Bush. (The Daily Wh.at)

Extreme Makeover, Star-chitect Edition: Watch what happens when you take a perfectly good old museum and crash a modernist sculpture into it. (Flavorwire)

Sneak Preview of the Day: In a novel attempt to drum up publicity for the coming film version of Yann Martel’s The Life of Pi, 20th Century Fox has released an exclusive clip of early footage — eleven seconds’ worth. Seriously, that’s it. A tiger snarls. Dev Patel Suraj Sharma looks scared. We can’t wait. (The Daily Wh.at)