Headlines from September 30, 2009
- Senate committee rejects two Democratic proposals for a government insurance plan.
- A new report shows that while U.S.-Mexico border detainments have dropped significantly, deaths have increased.
- He wore a crisp gray suit, and seemed eager to greet voters. But there were none to greet.
- The Pentagon mulls approving Twitter for troops.
- Leach called Twitter "stupid to begin with." Texas Tech football coach bans players' Twitter accounts.
- Record stores may be shutting down, but the owners are still selling records--sometimes out of their own apartments.
- A brief, powerful case for the importance of Ray Charles's Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music.
- The winners of the "BLT From Scratch" contest, where entrants couldn't buy any of the key ingredients in a store.
- See also: How to make your own guanciale and the BLT Kama Sutra.
- Also see also: Book collector finds a strip of bacon double-dutying as a bookmark.
- Nation demands fresh celebrity meat.
- Nathaniel Roe's family just decided to bury him in the backyard. America's lack of death culture leaves mourners in lurch.
- Thirty dumb inventions, including a baby cage and a curved barrel machine gun.
- E.U. report says Georgia started last year's war after much provocation.
- Op: Being cunning in handling his biz, Obama acts presidentially; his detractors, being hysterical, do not.
- How to "Merkelize": a Flickr pool of Angela Merkel-ish hand gestures.
- Copyright woes and lack of demand attack producer of the AK-47.
- Wanted at U.S. universities for their superior early training: Australian philosophers.
- Contemporary examples of Darwin's point about a predominance of cats generating a dearth of flowers.
- Blog post gets homeless couple's pension and benefits reinstated to the tune of $1 million.
- Side effects from placebos can be drug-specific, and often more intense.
- Reasons why the Manhattan Project will be forgotten in the relatively near future.
- Reporter develops theory about Malcom Gladwell being a ladies' man; Gladwell declines to comment.
- Princeton students and professors give pilot Kindle program a big red F.
- Scientific and mathematical concepts demonstrated with food.
- The next time your brain droops, here's why you should eat some sugar.
- Illustrated "Missed Connections."
- Interactive optical illusion makes it look as if everything is melting (don't click if you have photosensitive epilepsy).
- Note: One TMN editor almost fell over after looking at that illusion.