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Headlines from November 25, 2008
- Bush grants 14 pardons, commutes two sentences--no word on Milken or John Walker Lindh, though more reprieves are expected.
- Zakaria: In effect, we're asking China to finance simultaneously the two largest fiscal expansions in human history--theirs and ours.
- Melody Barnes will head the Domestic Policy Council in Obama's White House, wrote this progressive inauguration speech in 2007.
- Pontius Pilate, Trainspotting indicate cleanliness is closer to ethical acceptance than godliness.
- When Obama moves to Washington, the routine and ritual he's enjoyed in Chicago will be gone.
- After 35 years of taking the train to D.C., Joe Biden is moving there.
- A map of U.S. cities and how soon you could get there--if we had high-speed trains.
- Reporting from the Harley-Davidson owners' group, Middle East branch.
- Video: 100 films spoiled in under five minutes.
- Included in this year's TMN Annual: Matthew Baldwin on spoilers and those who hate them.
- Watch him code his latest sketch, a game about regret, and what do you see? Meet the programmer who turns life into games.
- As an Obama presidency looms, bitter humorists cling to their irony.
- Pre-election thought: How we'd see the GOP, if only we had special sunglasses like in John Carpenter's They Live.
- "She's wonderful, but the only difference was she looks better in stilettos than I do." Huckabee, post-election.
- Protestors shut down Bangkok airport with gunfire as Thai prime minister returns from summit.
- Disloyalty, or the whiff of it, set off a particular quivering. Ode to Bush's nostrils.
- Hitchens: The last thing we need is a Clinton in charge of foreign policy.
- Charities on tenterhooks while billionaires, banks, and foundations pull back on commitments.
- Wartime orders from Europe, and not the New Deal, did the most to help the economy climb out of the Great Depression.
- Instapaper for the commute: The myth of urban loneliness.
- Twelve brief theses on Netflix and recommender systems.
- Analysis of Shaq's first week on Twitter.
- Astronomers hopped up about signals perhaps from "fireballs created by dark matter particles colliding and annihilating one another in space."
- The Big Picture's look at the international space station on its 10th birthday.
- Video: 60 seconds in the life of a mold-injection machine.
- Architect documents waking thoughts with watercolor paintings every morning for 30 years.
Short on space, Spanish town builds solar panels on gravesites.