Daily Bafflements

• The New Museum, commonly known as the Silliest Museum in the United States, has announced that “Google Glass will be the Lead Sponsor of the 2015 Triennial,” opening next February. “As part of this partnership, the New Museum will launch a visitor engagement app using Google Glass,” the press release continues. That #innovation does not sound at all distracting.

• From the Paris Review Daily last week, a piece on the connections between David Foster Wallace’s family’s reaction to the forthcoming DFW biopic and James Joyce’s loss of control of the publication of his Ulysses and Finnegan’s Wake.

• An infographic on the death penalty in the United States shows that, in a 2010 poll, 61 percent of people asked said they would prefer a punishment other than the death penalty for prisoners convicted of homicide.

• Why don’t more journalists communicate with their sources using encryption, right from the beginning of their relationships? Author and ProPublica reporter Julia Angwin says it can seem like too much, too soon: “Asking sources to encrypt can be like asking for sex on the first date.”