Headlines from April 23, 2008
- Exactly how did all the papers and pundits agree that Clinton had to win by 10 points to survive?
- Despite her victory, Clinton's chances of catching Obama among pledged delegates have disappeared.
- Video: Obama "hopes up" various phrases, e.g., "Are you happy with your cell phone service?"
- "Barack," "Hillary," "Kofi" all popular baby names in Kenya right now.
- On the history of Zimbabwean authors speaking truth to dictators.
- Scalzi: Wired.com and others, please do not suggest Josh Allen plagiarized my work (re: last week's internet thunderdome event).
- No fewer than 22 film projects born of graphic novels or comics have been announced in the last six weeks.
- Why can't you tickle yourself?; what's better for boiling water, the microwave or the stove?
- TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin's most recent Digital Ramble for the Times.
- Erik Bryan's mp3 samples for this summer's TMN music festival.
- Record album covers completed aesthetically.
- Astronauts' picks for the world's most photogenic places.
- Patagonia's Footprint Chronicles track their products' genesis from fibers to distribution.
- In Pennsylvania, voter turnout nearly triples, handing Clinton a victory and keeping the race alive.
- Exit polls: Race, Catholicism, and bitterness made a big difference in who voters chose.
- Monthly donation program allows Roy Scheider to keep on donating to Obama.
- South Carolina church removes the marquee message that intimated a link between Obama and Osama.
- The United States has less than five percent of the world's population. But it has almost a quarter of the world's prisoners.
- Nearly one million Iraqi women are widowed, divorced, or their husbands are otherwise missing.
- Administration says it asked Carter not to meet with Hamas; Carter group says the White House's only stated concern was security.
- Companies start taking their digital suggestion boxes seriously.
- Whirlpool suspends workers for lying about tobacco use on company paperwork.
- The F.D.A. cited "the natural history of depression." When thoughts of suicide return after switching to a generic, flags should raise.
- Following a spate of escalator accidents, Japanese safety authorities petition Crocs to redesign.
- House of Lords votes against bill to ban homosexual-themed jokes--comedians of all orientations vastly pleased.
- Britain's new coin is essentially a big "sod off" to the Euro.