Headlines from January 9, 2009
- German billionaire takes life, broken by the crisis; article ties four financier deaths to the economy.
- While Parisians freeze, considering the mechanics of how exactly Russia turned off the gas.
- Study backs up the broken-window theory: a disorderly environment influences disorderly conduct.
- Times reporter meets Gaza fighter in a hospital.
- Great new Times feature on New York personalities: 1-in-8-million.
- I'd like to meet this born-free, autonomy-loving person someday. Somehow such a person sounds to me more like the Unabomber than Henry Thoreau.
- Videos from "The Hate Game."
- Instapaper for the commute: Paradoxes and Petraeus in Afghanistan.
- Insightful take on Richard Prince being sued for copyright infringement.
- The 2009 TMN Tournament of Books is coming very soon; for now, there's a Facebook group for you to fan up.
- We'd also love for you to follow TMN on Twitter.
- Matthew Baldwin wins scribbler award for "And Great Lyrics Quiz Rock Roll The" (finest known man quiz the to).
- Mailbag: Pasha Malla, damn you.
- Publishers will concentrate on promoting non-fiction by television presenters and commercial fiction by creative-writing graduates. The credit crunch in terms of literature.
- The Red Cross also said it was restricting its operations on Friday. Israel, Hamas rebuff U.N.'s demand for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
- "Compared to the American interrogators, the Chinese were more brutal." Interrogated in China and Gitmo, shipped to Albania, dreaming of Sweden.
- Roundtable: Oil prices continue to dictate adaption of green tech--just when we want to rely less on Iran, Russia.
- "The president-elect here just appointed me...secretary of shuttin' you up." The Chameleon expected to disrupt inauguration; Spider-Man is on call.
- Meet the Boston web developers behind Obama's massively successful online strategy.
- Video: You Look Nice Today makes sound effects for silent movies.
- A new book by Jack Torrance: All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy.
- TMN's Paul Ford awarded "Best Music Scribing" award for his "Six-Word Reviews of 763 SXSW Mp3s."
- I realize that I have potentially hurt the feelings of nearly 3,000 musicians, for which I apologize. Read the original article here.
- Interactive: Make your own mashup (part of a Technology Review article on Girl Talk).
- Chiropractor accuses Yelp user of defamation of character, seeks legal reparations.
- English hippies fight negative, "harmful" wi-fi radiation with crystal generators.
- Map: The Milky-Way Transit Authority.