The Washington Post has a great piece in today’s paper, debunking popular summer myths. Like that one about waiting 30 minutes after eating before swimming? Not true. The worse thing that could happen is a slight cramp, say experts, but there are no cases of food-related drownings on the record. Also: swallowing a few watermelon seeds is fine—peeing on a jellyfish sting, not so much.

Adidas has scratched its controversial ‘shackle sneakers’ reports the Oregonian this morning. The connotations to slavery were pointed out immediately when the company posted a sneak peak on Facebook earlier this month. The shoes were the brainchild of Jeremy Scott, who has earned a name for himself designing for a host of celebrities including Lady Gaga and Britney Spears.

Microsoft unveiled its challenge to the iPad yesterday. Called Surface, the tablet-cum-laptop signifies a new direction for the company, which has never made a Windows device under the Microsoft name says the Seattle Times. Tech columnist Brier Dudley says it’s a great move for the software giant but now begins the real challenge: they’ve got to sell it.

Roger Clemens proved he was a great pitcher yesterday writes Houston Chronicle columnist Jermone Solomon. The federal government stepped up to bat against the former Astro, charging him with six felony counts of lying to Congress, but couldn’t manage anything more than a string of strikeouts. Solomon says Clemens might have won this inning but now he must face the American public—and Baseball Hall of Fame voters—many of whom think he is guilty of cheating the game.

The title of Justin Bieber’s new album is “Believe.” A review in the Washington Post this morning says after a listen, it’s pretty hard to believe the pop star is heading in the right direction. Reviewer Chris Richards says his promise “continues to slip away” with this latest effort and that Bieber’s “smidge of attitude” is gone.

“Can he regain the woof woof woof?” That’s the question in the LA Times this morning. Arsenio Hall has a new late-night talk show in the works. Starting in September 2013, Hall will broadcast a new version of his classic show on select CBS affiliates around the country. The Tribune company, which is hoping to emerge from a three-and-a-half-year bankruptcy soon, is one of the show’s backers.

A fellow Canadian is featured in the LA Times this morning. Twitter superstar Kelly Oxford has landed a book deal, an NBC contract and sold a script to Warner Bros. all without leaving her home province of Alberta. Oxford, who has more than 350,000 followers on Twitter, has become the toast of the the entertainment industry by releasing 140-character musings like this one: If you have a taxidermy marlin and you’ve never tried to joust someone with it, you’re wasting everyone’s time.

The Wall Street Journal takes a look at the quirky inventions Jeff Bezos pursues when he’s not busy running Amazon. Like an air bag for your cell phone. Or his $42-million, 200-foot-tall clock that is designed to “play an elaborate cuckoo-like sequence for the anniversary of every year, decade, century, millennium and 10 millennia.”

Even Governor Andrew Cuomo has a man cave. The New York Post takes a look at Cuomo’s exercise room in this morning’s paper, which has a desk, a weight bench and an enormous poster of Jim Morrison. His live-in girlfriend Sandra Lee says the dining room was the only room in their newly refurbished house that the governor had strong opinions about—he decorated it with letters by key signers of the Declaration of Independence.