Headlines from October 13, 2011
- NYPD officers available to Wall Street firms for $37/hour— indemnified by the taxpayer.
- Likely source of virus affecting software in military drones: Mafia Wars.
- Spanish politician sues FBI over its use of his likeness to make bin Laden mock-up.
- “GM Backpedals on Anti-Cycling Ad.”
- Extensive analysis of male/female bathroom signage.
- How to plug in a USB cable the right way every time.
- “Name three Germans” street quiz finds Americans focussed on one name. #video
- Modular chocolates have holes for fruit, compartments for wafers.
- Amish mob rolling up in buggies, chopping off hair of less devout men.
- TMN wants your help: how close is the economy to your front door?
- Stories of junkie-on-junkie fragging: deliberately passing along deadly blood.
- Author of book on psychopaths shares email from psychopath.
- Omnificent English Dictionary (OED) In Limerick Form expected to be completed by 2035.
- Olsen twins’ little sister Lizzie finds acting success, comparisons to Robert Duvall.
- Ellen unites Nicky Minaj with eight-year-old imitator.
- Iranian dissidents, analysts hard-pressed to see Ahmadinejad plotting the assassination attempt.
- Potential Gadhafi hiding places.
- We Americans like to make fun of lawyers and everyone has a lawyer joke or two, it seems. I don’t. Hersh on the lawyer who helped him break his My Lai story.
- Myanmar to free 6,300 prisoners.
- Helen Mirren on silly interviews: “hard labor in the mines of marketing.”
- Notoriously sexist interview of Mirren by Michael Parkinson. #videos
- Hitchens gives reading suggestions to a nine-year-old: Dickens, Wodehouse, Hume.
- More than 50 years after Hazel Bryan became the face of racism at age 15, she still can’t live down the photo that changed her life.
- Director makes his real assistant face off against the new iPhone’s virtual assistant. #videos
- Life of the single American woman when most good men are gone. #longreads
- Designer faces down the incredible success of the game he designed not to be fun.
- Philly fans boo rivals appearing in an anti-cancer commercial.
- Red Sox pitchers drank beer, ate chicken, and played video games during actual games this season.
- “1,213-Pound Cabo San Lucas Marlin Takes 28 Hours to Boat.”