* Is BoA no longer considering Merrill Lynch to be the bane of its (once tenuous) existence?
* Peter Kafka: Twitter’s new design is a reluctant admission of having become a media company.
* Michael Kinsley: Baby Boomers are nearing their final act, which should be saving the economy.
* Morning Call: U.S. futures point lower, London opens flat, European shares slip on pharma and the Nikkei climbs 2.3% on yen intervention.
* An infomercial on how to fix venture capital
* Alex Fangos: Why toilet paper is better than cash
* New VC/PE performance data from Cambridge Associates
* Dear parents: Forget the ice cream truck guy. Watch out for the Google engineers.
* Peter Lattman: The Momentive/Hexion merger shows just how far Apollo has come in two short years.
* Today in political rhetoric: Democrat road-tests the phrase Republican TARP, in reference to an extension of Bush tax cuts for the top 2%.
* Tweet of the Day: @goldman Some free PR advice: If tech blogs are speculating that your badass CEO was detained for carrying ninja stars, DO NOT DENY! Even if untrue.
* Is a bidding war coming for ArcSight?
* Lou Whiteman: The bullish case for GM
* The new Term Sheet daily email launches later this morning. Sign up here.
* Venture capitalist Brad Feld makes his “film” debut, as a lowly intern:
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