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Headlines from October 15, 2009
- Britain's far-right National Party agrees to admit nonwhite people as members.
- Moscow to blow snow clouds away from the city center, banishing powder to the surrounding region.
- Mao's grandson's blog reveals an unwavering Mao obsession.
- Willie Nelson's corn-powered tour bus is a wi-fi hotspot.
- Op: The web can lengthen attention spans and develop rich inner lives in attentive users; "smart people are doing wonderful things."
- Twitter users defy British ban on free speech; burnt banana cake becomes small price to pay.
- More children's fiction than adult fiction was submitted for the National Book Awards.
- Borrowing e-books from libraries is growing, though both publishers and librarians balk at proposed pricing models.
- Decent roundtable on e-books; Wolf and Gelernter worth reading.
- Better: E-books will work when they connect me to everything my favorite authors write.
- The Kakutani two-step: Publishing's most powerful critic has a blind spot.
- Bershon: How girls feel at 13 while posing for family portraits.
- Having children actually makes women less happy. Ehrenreich on feminism and misery.
- All magazine models, plus-sized or not, affect women's self-esteem--the underweight women feel better.
- Thirty-four killed in the fifth big attack by militants in Pakistan in the last 10 days.
- Amid Obama signs everywhere, America's power far more respected than France's in Guinea.
- George Packer receives a letter from a Vietnam expert in Kabul.
- Japan's new Asianism means Tokyo will be a less pliant partner for Washington.
- Spitzer: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce must be stopped.
- Best jobs in America are in medicine and education.
- If Turkey wants to be taken more seriously, it needs to take its Turkishness less solemnly.
- Zoophiles are sexually attracted to animals and they would like to be accepted in society.
- Statistical analysis shows that N.F.L. coaches consistently make the wrong decision on the fourth down.
- Hard work overrated, possibly detrimental to projects.
- I have close friends--and I know how to reach them. Refuseniks are twentysomethings who won't join Facebook, Twitter, etc.
- Using instinct and a scanner to recognize a drawing by Leonardo.
- Software reset in CT scanner causes scores of radiation overdoses.
- "In B-flat" resets our daily low expectations for the web.
- Account by the designer who created the first animated GIFs.
- Today's must-read: Roger Ebert may be Chris Burden's best chronicler.
- Oral biography of Altman finds him largely unknowable.
- Susan loved getting lost in unusual territory. Designer's loving remembrance of Sontag.
- Alex Ross starts a new music blog, perfect when you crave that "thin, wild Renaissance sound."