Headlines from March 11, 2009
- EU employs new official coffee monitors to make sure commissioners' espresso tastes good.
- Bankers will not hesitate to enrich themselves at the expense of the public good if they have the opportunity.
- If you're looking for a socialist revolution in the U.S., focus on guerrilla agriculture.
- Instapaper for the commute: How people have recovered from Ireland's "Troubles."
- Kristof offers genocide primer through answers to question about Darfur.
- Europe considers following the Czech (and Bobby Jindal) model for dealing with violent sex offenders: castration.
- Biotechnicians have been freed from the vulgar moralism of the masses, so they can operate according to the vulgar utilitarianism of their own social clique.
- Chinese sports ministry finds 3,000 young atheletes are older than they claim.
- Weeks after Islamic law bans yoga, Indonesian council forces hipster "Buddha Bar" to close for offending Buddhists.
- Meter judges internet's focus on Paris Hilton or Paris, France.
- New Cindy Sherman show redefines a place for women in the Western cliché.
- Interesting discussion on figuring out why school concert bands pick music no one listens to.
- Enjoying the Tournament of Books? Place a wager on the outcome and help some kids.
- Another gallery of gorgeous iPhone-drawn art.
- I do not give much importance to abstract concepts. President Lula da Silva of Brazil ponders the new human-based economic order.
- Channeling Genghis Khan, Kazakh premier suggests a global currency.
- Riding news of Citigroup's profits and Bernanke's call for reform, Wall Street posts its biggest one-day gain of the year.
- Madoff to plead guilty on all criminal charges tomorrow, may spend the rest of his life in prison.
- "I Know a Guy Who Knows a Guy Who Can Really Screw Us Over."
- "The Tibetan people are regarded like criminals deserving to be put to death." Fifty years after exile, the Dalai Lama slams China, is still unable to find the middle way.
- The New Republic presents a series thats asks: "What should Obama do about Darfur?"
- Comparing the health of the Dow to a president's first 50 days, Obama gets the second-worst drop; Ford had the worst.
- Photos of the world's worst places to work--and the worst is Lagos, Nigeria.
- Chart of sitcom set configurations; blueprints of sitcom houses.
- The long-awaited book site, The Second Pass, is now online and ready to review.
- High-resolution photo-tour of CBGB.
- What to do when pictures from the pre-digital age arrive on Facebook--specifically, photos of you in high school.