Headlines from March 9, 2009
- Astounding story about the obstacles--thugs, secret prisons, beatings--Chinese citizens face to lodge a complaint about the government.
- Bad paintings of Barack Obama.
- Bush lawyers find themselves too toxic for employers; Gonzales blames "partisan politics" for his unemployment.
- Instapaper for the commute: For screenwriters everywhere: the path of Tony Gilroy.
- The top 10 stories you won't see in the news this week.
- The point of Barbie's having Ken around is not for her to marry him but for her to have the option. It is enough for him to be marriageable.
- Data highlights the connection between conservative moral values and an affinity for porn.
- Ben Greenman's Earth Ball weighs in on the Steele-Limbaugh spat.
- Study on how John Darnielle became the next Nick Drake/Smiths/Rufus Wainwright for a certain flock.
- Analysis of why location crime novels appeal across borders.
- More Kindle-considering: The book business is a distribution business, pure and simple.
- Consider the jetpack: Available for sale, but extremely dangerous, especially when flown untethered.
- A month in the life of a jetset basketball referee during March Madness.
- TMN brings its own madness today with the launch of the Tournament of Books.
- In the run-up to Summit of Americas: hopes for easing Cuban embargo, mending ties after Latin America's move leftward.
- Clinton's "talk-show diplomacy" wins Turkish support; next, Obama must deliver on Middle East policy.
- Three makes a trend: Shoes hurled at Ahmadinejad.
- We do expect stories, even fantastic stories, to adhere to some recognizable reality. Could Lex Luthor save the economy?
- World Bank predicts that, for the first time since World War II, the global economy will shrink this year.
- Days ago, our economy looked like it did back in 1996. Now: Welcome back to 1982.
- "Resisting the Kindle" and "In Defense of the Kindle."
- "It's not easy to send emails on that thing. It is not a good touch screen." Congress is a BlackBerry stronghold, and nobody likes the Storm.
- Interactive graphic: From city services to quality of life, what New Yorkers like and don't like about their city.
- First, the puppet children were incredible creepy. Nick Sagan doesn't like Vegetable Soup.
- The top five music videos of the 1960s.
- Preparing for an Icelandic interview, British savant learns the language in a week.
- "We're rounding with you, or we're rounding on you." Why doctors go to work sick.