Here are some of the bigger headlines around this morning:

• Michelin Man Meets Stonehenge to Birth an Olympic Rock Star. Is that really a Wall Street Journal headline?
• Sadistic finance article of the day: “Europe's monetary union has become of instrument of deflation torture.” Yes, always leave it up to Ambrose Evans-Pritchard to come up with the uplifting angle.
• Remember what we were saying about deep-water drilling? Schlumberger says it's driving the Smith acquisition (Wall Street Journal).
• Toyota cited $100 million savings after limiting recall (New York Times). Oops.
• Geithner: independent consumer agency needed (Reuters). Yes, creating more spineless bureaucracies will fix our problems.
• Lowe's grows quarterly profit (Triangle Business Journal). It turns out that people still need to buy light bulbs and house plants, after all.
• Carl Icahn seeks four seats on the genzyme board (New York Times). Is Carl Icahn the kind of guy who also makes 4 trips to the salad bar?
• Experts close on Google hackers (Financial Times).
• Apple removes over 5,000 apps (Apple Insider). Cries of hypocrisy abound. Can you believe the yanked the “Wobble iBoobs” app?
• Facebook has acquired a Malaysian company called Octazen Solutions (TechCrunch). No, I didn't just make that up.