Headlines from September 2, 2011
- Berlusconi calls Italy a “shitty” country that sickens him, and vows to leave.
- Dutch game show pits failed asylum seekers in contest to show knowledge of Dutch culture.
- The intersection of 9/11 and money is a busy intersection. Detailing those who gained from 9/11.
- No guesses for when Gadhafi will show up at his vacation home, located in Bergen County, NJ.
- Six reasons why Brazil’s fertility-rate graph looks “like a playground slide.”
- Analysis of French tennis players Monfils and Tsonga: “What we love about them is what keeps them from winning more.”
- Sartre’s The Wall published as a Facebook wall, with comments.
- Miniature world attached to a logo.
- Unintentionally vulgar price tag placements probably unintentional.
- Camouflage going invisible, having held its modern form since World War I.
- Terrific “Thinking Allowed” segments find Laurie Taylor visiting people’s homes to see how different families live.
- Round-up of must-see gallery shows around America this month.
- He suffers the most when I suffer the most. Charles Schulz draws Charlie Brown. #video
- Friday’s web comic: “Family decals.”
- Friday’s poem: “To You,” Kenneth Koch.
- “Who discovered E = mc2?” turns out to be a difficult question to answer.
- “Could I destroy the entire Roman Empire if I traveled back in time with a modern U.S. Marine infantry battalion?”
- Fuse to pipe bomb spells out “That’s All Folks” prior to explosion. #video
- Pictures and notes from the set of Sherlock’s next season.
- Solutions to the space debris problem: magnetic nets, catcher’s mitts, anything to stop it multiplying.
- Since May three NHL players have been found dead—all enforcers who dropped gloves to punch and be punched.
- Endangered species babies born in labs. #photos
- A chart of defunct nations is the key to finding out the age of your globe. via
- Feds raid Gibson Guitar in a possible buildup to charges of illegal wood trafficking. via
- “That’s where you go to work.” Federal workers use “Waffle House index” to gauge disaster level.
- Irate over the magazine’s takedown, Scientologists produce heavy-handed New Yorker spoof.
- In 1972, Hendrik Hertzberg chronicled a charity tournament featuring Dustin Hoffman, Burt Bacharach, Charlton Heston, and George Plimpton. Tennis in the New Yorker.
- In interview with tennis analyst, Roddick calls being a tennis analyst the world’s easiest job. via #video
- Everyone lives 80 milliseconds in the past, and other essential facts about time.
- Master palindromist on palindrome pickup lines and his 400-word magnum opus.
- Hockney’s new works use nine cameras to show what’s missing with one. #art
- More than drugs, Prohibition’s modern correlation is what the Tea Party wants to do to personal liberty. #opinions
- None of this is our business. Breaking the news of death in the age of Facebook. via