Headlines from May 20, 2010
- Scientists discover chunk of missing universe 400 million light years away.
- Mp3s of the original BBC Radio broadcast of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
- New electric cars have the same range--on one charge--as a car from 1908.
- Video: A two-year-old who knows his football.
- How the iPad's keyboard organization can help overcome writer's block.
- I made my own journey to Iraq and found evidence that Saddam had WMD. A digested read of Hitchens's memoir.
- Nell Boeschenstein reflects on fleeting jobs and the skills that deserve placement on her résumé.
- The résumé of the student who faked his way into Harvard claims he speaks classical Armenian, wrote four books.
- Hilariously awful trailers for books like Sounds of Murder and Shoplifting From American Apparel.
- In addition, please, kill us already. The Onion covers the social app everyone's covering.
- Analysis of North Korea's trigger-finger and what it means if it was (or wasn't) Kim Jong Il's.
- Lucid summary of recent Thai political history.
- America is carrying out a robot war 7,000 miles away; laws have not kept up with technological progress.
- Why Russia has always been the "part of the European jigsaw puzzle that didn't fit."
- Pakistan bans Facebook after "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!" (Facebook page here).
- Saudi woman attacks religious cop after questioning proves too much for her boyfriend.
- JP Morgan "demystifies quant models" by predicting England to win the 2010 World Cup (UBS's picks).
- "Mapping the Demographics of American English with Twitter."
- Editor-in-chief criticizes some journalists' tweets for impugning Bloomberg's integrity.
- Marijuana use often fills users with the self-illusion of creativity. Slate calls foul on Times pot-cuisine trend story.
- Study finds smoking and drinking prevent depression, but still lead to early death.
- Web-less cartoonist James Sturm asks students to explain their relationship with the Internet in comics.
- Drawings of shopping carts.
- The Rumpus starts book club where members read advance copies, formerly only available to media outlets.
- LeBron's co-author: to avoid "a false sense of invincibility," Akron's god should leave home.
- Parallel readings of Dickens's Great Expectations and People.com's Tiger Woods.
- Girl Talk's Feed the Animals rendered visually with shoppable samples.